By Kimberly Pierceall, AP Looking for cash, Caesars Entertainment officials looked no further than the company’s flagship Las Vegas Strip hotel-casino Caesars Palace and saw $2.6 billion that could be raised by mortgaging the 4,250-room resort modeled after Ancient Rome. The proposal was revealed this week after the company’s bank lenders were the latest creditors […]
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By Brent Skorup, Reuters A national spotlight is now focused on aggressive law enforcement tactics and the justice system. Today’s professional police forces — where officers in even one-stoplight towns might have body armor and mine-resistant vehicles — already raise concerns. Yet new data-mining technologies can now provide police with vast amounts of surveillance information […]
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By Kathryn Reed A lot of gunk flows into Lake Tahoe, causing the clarity to decline and algae to grow. Most of it comes in the winter and spring via storm runoff. But the lasting effect is making the water near the beaches less inviting, especially in the summer. None of this is news. What […]
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By Phillip Reese, Sacramento Bee More California kindergartners are getting their vaccinations before starting school, curbing a decadelong trend of falling immunization rates, new state figures show. The shift comes as California experiences one of its worst whooping-cough outbreaks in generations. Health experts said several prior years of lax immunization primed the state for such […]
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By Ana Ley and Amber Phillips, Las Vegas Sun When President Obama gave Astrid Silva a shout-out last month, he did more than put a face on his new immigration plan. He helped thrust Silva, and her home state of Nevada, into the national spotlight on immigration reform. She has since used her political fame to […]
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By Kathryn Reed Young, active, outdoorsy and practically a native. Those are some of the attributes of the next lieutenant to run the Lake Tahoe office of the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office. “I don’t really foresee changes,” Lt. Matt Underhill told Lake Tahoe News. “I want to continue the legacy of Les (Lovell) and […]
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Uodated 8:25pm: There are 3,500 customers in the Sierra Tract area without power. Liberty Utilities has no idea when power will be restored. Updated 7:15pm: The lines are in the air and power to the South Lake Tahoe-Meyers area should be restored any minute, according to LIberty Utilities. By Kathryn Reed A tree more than 200-feet […]
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By Trevon Milliard, Las Vegas Review-Journal Nevada is one of 18 states splitting $226 million in federal grants to develop public preschool programs in 2014, according to an announcement by the U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in a press call Tuesday. Half of the 36 states […]
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By Kathryn Reed Holding on to the side of the pool the youngsters kick as hard as they can, causing Larry Phippen to close his eyes with all that water headed in his direction. He’s telling them to turn their heads and breath. Later they grab kickboards to make their way across the width of […]
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By Bettina Boxall and Evan Halper, Los Angeles Times The U.S. House on Tuesday passed a California drought bill, despite a veto threat from the Obama administration and its expected demise in the Senate in the final days before Congress adjourns. The 230-182 vote was largely a symbolic gesture in the years-long effort by House […]
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