By J.D. Morris, Las Vegas Sun Coming soon to Nevada casinos: slot machines that feel a lot like arcade or video games. The Nevada Gaming Commission recently approved regulations for skill-based slot machines in an effort to help the casino industry appeal to younger, more technologically savvy customers. The regulations create three categories: traditional chance […]
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By Kathryn Reed INCLINE VILLAGE – Technology is continuing to bring clarity to the seismic world, though not yet to the extent where temblors can be predicted. LiDAR provides images and data that otherwise could not be ascertained or would take an exhorbitant amount of time to collect. “It has immediate […]
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By Powder Erik Roner, father, husband and beloved member of the action-sports community, has tragically died after a parachuting accident this morning in Squaw Valley. As a member of a small four-man team of parachuters jumping as part of the opening ceremonies of the fourth annual Squaw Valley Institute Celebrity Golf Tournament, Roner descended into […]
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By Harriet Baskas, CNBC Gerda Stoof was delighted last week to be looking up at the 60-foot-tall stone faces of Mount Rushmore National Memorial near Keystone, South Dakota. She and her husband made a pit stop on their drive home from visiting new twin grandchildren in Ontario. “I’ve heard about this all my life and have […]
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By Kathryn Reed On opening day of Bijou Bike Park people were calling it the “bone yard” even though no ambulances were needed. The description had to do with the tricked out features and the potential for injury. Hospitals in the U.S. saw the number of bike injuries double between 1998 and 2013, according to […]
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By Barbara Barte Osborn, Sacramento Bee There’s a “light in the tunnel” for the Truckee-Tahoe area’s numerous bicyclists and hikers, who have long had to negotiate Truckee’s 25-foot-wide, 1928 Mousehole tunnel on Highway 89. A smaller tunnel just for them was punched through east of the Mousehole last week, and a paved pedestrian/bike trail through […]
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By Neil Irwin, New York Times Sports leagues in the United States, and the networks that broadcast their games, prefer to pretend that everyone watching their games does so for the pure love of competition, the occasional nonchalant reference to the gambling point spread by a football announcer notwithstanding. But as anyone who has turned […]
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By Kathryn Reed Appreciation of athleticism, physique, conditioning, speed, eye-hand coordination, fluid-graceful movement, mental toughness – those are some of the advantages of watching professional sports live compared to sitting in front of the television. There are things to hear and see, and nuances that TV cameras don’t capture. Watching professional sports does not have […]
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By Rory Carroll, Reuters California environmentalists plan to file a new water bond proposal with the secretary of state next week, a measure backers say will provide critical money for programs that were under funded by the $7.8 billion bond passed by voters last year. The exact amount of the new water bond has yet […]
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By Michelle Rindels, Reno Gazette-Journal An annual health survey of Nevada kindergartners shows a big drop in the percentage of children without health insurance, a change that researchers attribute to more use of Medicaid benefits. The seventh annual report from the Nevada Institute for Children’s Research and Policy at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, […]
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