By Thomas Moore, Las Vegas Sun Gamblers left more than $35 million on casino floors in the past five years, money the state of Nevada was happy to come along and pick up. The cash came in the form of slot and video machine tickets that players either lost, forgot about or simply didn’t bother […]
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Oliver Wendell Hayden was born at home Nov. 18, 1927, in Nicholson, Pa., to Hallie I. Hayden and Leta Cooley Hayden; the fifth of seven children. He passed way Dec. 17, 2016, at Carson Tahoe Medical Center in Carson City. He was 89. Ollie graduated from Nicholson High School in 1945, and entered the U.S. […]
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By Kathryn Reed TRUCKEE – It looks like Jim Larmore is playing a sophisticated video game on his phone. But this is no game. As director of mountain operations at Northstar Larmore oversees the entire snowmaking operation. He is essentially Father Nature. When Mother Nature doesn’t deliver snow, Larmore and his gang do. Many of […]
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By Elisabeth Vincentelli, CNN For a long time, women’s skis suffered from a phenomenon known as “pink it and shrink it”: take a men’s model, make it shorter (and softer) and give it a pastel top sheet. Thankfully we’ve come a long way since. The offerings have improved and last season the best-selling ski in […]
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By Jason Hidalgo, Reno Gazette-Journal A leading association for the gambling industry is hopeful that a Trump administration will be huge for gaming. Increased mainstream acceptance of gambling, combined with the results of the presidential election, represent an opportunity to push key goals for the industry on a wide range of issues, including regulations and […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – While there are 178 thresholds the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency is trying to achieve, it was traffic-transportation that garnered the most discussion this month. The Governing Board adopted the 2015 Threshold Evaluation Report at its meeting last week. Within all of those standards are nine categories: air quality, water quality, […]
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By Jane E. Brody, New York Times Most of the Northern Hemisphere is now in the throes of the deadliest time of the year. Cold kills, and I don’t mean just extreme cold and crippling blizzards. I mean ordinary winter cold, like that typically experienced, chronically or episodically, by people in every state but Hawaii […]
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By Jim Yuskavitch, Sierra It’s been nearly 50 years since one of the last grizzly bears in Washington State’s wild North Cascades was shot and killed. It’s been even longer, more than 90 years, since the last known grizzly vanished from California, where the great bear’s image is still emblazoned prominently on the state flag. […]
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By Kathryn Reed Two board members of the California Tahoe Conservancy have refused to resign even though they have been asked to do so. And now the state agency’s attorney is backpedaling when it comes to what exactly he wants them to do. Tom Davis and Sue Novasel, who represent South Lake Tahoe and El […]
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By Jeremy B. White, Sacramento Bee Every Fall, Gov. Jerry Brown’s time is consumed by what could best be described as legislative triage. He sifts through the hundreds of bills sent to his desk and decides which ones will become law. This year, the Legislature sent Brown 1,059 pieces of legislation, 898 of which the […]
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