A man was stabbed early Sunday morning near the valet at Harrah’s Lake Tahoe. Douglas County sheriff’s investigators are looking for the person or people who committed the crime. The suspect is wanted on robbery, battery with a deadly weapon, and assault with a deadly weapon charges. He fled the scene. The victim was taken […]
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By Mike Wolterbeek UNR entomologist Andrew Nuss and biologist Dennis Mathew are looking for a way to stop the spread of mosquito-borne disease. The goal of their research is to identify key mosquito odorant receptors that govern mosquito host-preference for humans and to genetically modify those genes in order to create mosquito strains that avoid […]
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On Aug. 25 U.S. District Judge Kimberly Mueller is expected to reconsider her own request for the chief magistrate to appoint a three-judge panel to hear Citizens for Fair Representation v. Secretary of State Alex Padilla. Mueller had made this request earlier this month. Hours later the state’s attorney filed a motion to reconsider that […]
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· Brian Krolicki, former lieutenant governor and current Stateline resident, has been appointed to the Nevada Commission on Tourism. He was on that board when he was an elected official. · Lake Tahoe South Shore Chamber of Commerce is offering a travel opportunity to Spain and Costa del Sol. The chamber is hosting a travel […]
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By Jim Sloan In 2009, Will Richardson was doing some summertime bird-monitoring research in aspen stands in Ward Canyon near Lake Tahoe when he heard an unexpected birdsong. It was a high, pleasing, spiraling song, like a flute, and he recognized it right away as the song of a Swainson’s thrush, a bird that had […]
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By Larry Weitzman In the Wall Street Journal on Aug. 7, there was a column by Christopher Mims entitled “Electric Car Hurdle: Not Enough Chargers.” It described the coming dilemma that there will not be enough public electric charging stations for all the coming millions of electric cars, courtesy of Tesla which says it will […]
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By Amy Harmon, New York Times It is August, the month when a new generation of black-legged ticks that transmit Lyme and other diseases are hatching. On forest floors, suburban estates and urban parks, they are looking for their first blood meal. And very often, in the large swaths of North America and Europe where […]
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By Marc Vartabedian, Reuters Tesla Inc. is developing a long-haul, electric semi-truck that can drive itself and move in “platoons” that automatically follow a lead vehicle, and is getting closer to testing a prototype, according to an email discussion of potential road tests between the car company and the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles, seen […]
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By Richard N. Velotta, Las Vegas Review-Journal Now that Caesars Entertainment Corp. is well on its way toward emerging from bankruptcy, company officials have affirmed significant growth plans are in the works. Speaking Wednesday to members of the state Gaming Control Board in Carson City, President and CEO Mark Frissora said the new Caesars […]
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The natural granite beauty at Donner Summit is being marred by graffiti. It used to be that vandals limited their damage to inside the train tunnels. Not so many more. Local residents are working with the U.S. Forest Service to clean up the mess. Preventing the problem from reoccurring will be the harder endeavor. — […]
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