By Michelle Rindels, AP An effort to repeal the state’s new commerce tax suffered a likely fatal setback on Wednesday after the Nevada Supreme Court ruled a petition that’s been circulating for several months isn’t fit for the ballot. Justices said in their order that the summary of the measure’s effect, which appears on the […]
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The Douglas County sheriff’s Explorers POST No. 2105 earned first place in DUI investigations, first in written examinations, third in individual female obstacle, third in team obstacle, and fifth place in 10-man team tug-o-war at the Central Valley Law Enforcement Explorer Competition in Tulare County. The Explorers competed against 24 California law enforcement agencies over […]
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By Cy Ryan, Las Vegas Sun CARSON CITY — Nevada’s welcome signs that have greeted highway motorists at state-border entry points for about two decades are set for a makeover. State officials have selected four sign designs by Nevada high school students to be finalists for consideration. None of the finalist designs features symbols of […]
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By Associated Press Nevada is renewing its efforts to attract Chinese tourists after shutting down a Beijing tourism office it operated for a decade. The state Board of Examiners approved a $396,000, two-year contract on Tuesday with East West Marketing Corp. The company has offices in China and Los Angeles and will develop and maintain […]
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By Kathryn Reed Twenty-four students with seizures, nine with Type 1 diabetes, two with Type 2, 112 with asthma, 21 with cardiac conditions, 136 with food allergies and of those 45 require epi-pens. Those are some of the issues nurses in Lake Tahoe Unified School District are dealing with on a daily basis. They handle […]
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By Larry Weitzman On May 3 the El Dorado County CAO’s office, directed by CAO Larry Combs, published an article in Lake Tahoe News defending the EDC’s road maintenance policy claiming that our roads are better maintained and that any problems are due to less funding because the state gasoline tax is down due to […]
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By Lena H. Sun, Washington Post Nearly a third of antibiotics prescribed in doctors’ offices, emergency rooms and hospital-based clinics in the United States are not needed, according to the most in-depth study yet to examine the use and misuse of these life-saving drugs. The finding, which has implications for antibiotics’ diminished efficacy, translates to about 47 […]
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By Daniel Rothberg, Las Vegas Sun One Nevada company was mentioned in a federal indictment of FIFA officials. At least 10 Nevada-registered firms were owned by one of Thailand’s wealthiest families, and dozens more have ties to a corruption probe in Brazil, a USA Today analysis revealed last month. They represent a sliver of the […]
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· El Dorado County Fair’s theme this year is Cowboys & Carousels. The fair is June 16-19 in Placerville. · Guests at Squaw Valley-Alpine Meadows donated a little more than $48,000 in Green Bucks to the Tahoe Fund and the Truckee River Watershed Council. The donation came from dollar donations added to lift tickets, season passes […]
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By Joan Lowy, AP Six states, including Nevada, that allow marijuana use legal tests to determine driving while impaired by the drug that have no scientific basis, according to a study by the nation’s largest automobile club that calls for scrapping those laws. The study commissioned by AAA’s safety foundation said it’s not possible to […]
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