By Sean Whaley, Las Vegas Review-Journal CARSON CITY — Three petitions — seeking to restore favorable net metering rates, open Nevada’s electricity markets to competition and exempt medical equipment from the sales tax — have qualified for the November general election ballot, Nevada Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske said. The energy competition measure, which would […]
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By Susan Wood STATELINE – It was as if Tahoe found a friend this summer with long-time Grammy award-winning singer, guitarist, songwriter James Taylor, who showered the crowd at the Harveys outdoor concert Wednesday night with his love of music. Aside from a triple encore capped off by one overzealous fan barely crawling on stage […]
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By Kerry Jackson, Orange County Register As much as the Brexit vote, coming just before Canada’s and America’s own independence celebrations, drove the West’s elitists to call those who don’t agree with them “rubes” and far worse, it also inspired other autonomy movements to increase their efforts to break away from those ruling them from […]
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By Adam Allington, AP During their working years, women tend to earn less than men, and when they retire, they’re more likely to live in poverty. These are women who raised children and cared for sick and elderly family members, often taking what savings and income they do have and spending it on things besides […]
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By Chris Kudialis, Las Vegas Sun Making recreational marijuana legal in Nevada would help eliminate black market sales and generate millions of tax dollars for education, representatives of an advocacy group said Tuesday. Speaking at the law offices of Ashcraft and Barr, 2300 W. Sahara Ave., representatives of the Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol […]
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The East Shore Express is one way to avoid dealing with parking or traffic at Sand Harbor. Drop offs and parking are no longer permitted along Highway 28 near Sand Harbor. And walk-ins are not allowed to the beach. The bus runs every 20 minutes from 10am-7pm through Sept. 5. Cost is $3 round trip, which […]
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By Mark Robison, Reno Gazette-Journal “The big news is that drought has waned over the last three months.” That’s the opening sentence of the quarterly report put out July 13 by the Nevada State Climate Office. Above normal winter and spring precipitation was given as the main reason. Read the whole story
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Truckee Tahoe Airport District officials will be conducting six meetings starting next week in order to share updates on airport operations, impacts on each neighborhood, and plans to address those impacts. Topics will include the recently completed Airspace Study, plans for a temporary seasonal air traffic control tower, neighborhood-specific issues, and general information about the […]
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By Trevon Milliard, Reno Gazette-Journal Nevada will receive a $1.8 million settlement from test-maker Smart Balanced Assessment Consortium for the screw-up that resulted in only a third of public school students completing standardized exams in 2015. The settlement, announced Tuesday by the Nevada Attorney General’s Office, is the latest reimbursement reached for testing problems in 2015. In April, […]
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By Sean Whaley, Las Vegas Review-Journal CARSON CITY — Nevada officials on Tuesday approved a $120,000 settlement with the Environmental Protection Agency over violations relating to polluted stormwater runoff from state Transportation Department-run facilities. The consent decree, approved by the Board of Examiners, which includes Gov. Brian Sandoval, acknowledges past stormwater management violations and formalizes […]
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