By Jessica Calefati, San Jose Mercury News SACRAMENTO — A bill that would ban single-use plastic grocery bags statewide — something California lawmakers have tried and failed to do more than a dozen times before — won approval from the state Assembly on Thursday after failing on the floor earlier this week. The bill — […]
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By Katie Zezima, Washington Post Over the past few years, the White House has shifted its drug policy away from putting low-level offenders in jail and prison and toward helping them access addiction treatment — an approach that dovetails with the life of acting drug czar Michael Botticelli, a recovering alcoholic. It’s a strategy has […]
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By Kathryn Reed EMERALD BAY STATE PARK – While Lora Knight’s guests were always allowed to drive to her estate, that has not always been the case for California State Parks visitors. This is the second year people with disabilities are allowed to drive to Vikingsholm at Emerald Bay State Park. Otherwise it’s a one-mile […]
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By Diana Marcum, Los Angeles Times The U.S. Forest Service on Wednesday unveiled a salvage logging operation for more than 15,000 acres of trees burned in last summer’s Rim Fire. The plan — which calls for removing an additional 17,706 acres of trees along non-public roads — means the Forest Service will be selling more […]
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By Eddie Pells, AP Some of the newest incarnations of fantasy football look a lot more like gambling than intricate, outsmart-your-opponent strategy games. Since 2011, the billion-dollar fantasy market has been infused with dozens of daily and weekly games. Those games allow players to win huge prizes quickly, sometimes in one week, sometimes in just […]
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By Kathryn Reed Lake Tahoe is making strides to have a coordinated regional transit system. A significant step is this week there will be a job posting by Tahoe Transportation District for a transit system program manager. “We need to answer: ‘What does an integrated transit system in the entire Tahoe area look like?’,” Carl […]
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By Fred Barbash, Washington Post Starting the school day before 8:30 in the morning is bad for kids. It’s bad for their physical health, their mental health and their academic performance. So says the American Academy of Pediatrics, which issued a formal policy statement Monday recommending that middle and high schools do away with those […]
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By Howard Stutz Las Vegas Review-Journal CG Technology CEO Lee Amaitis wanted to know the whereabouts of about $9 million that Nevada sports book operators paid to the federal government last year through a tax on all sports wagers. It seemed like a simple question. Amaitis asked Rep Dina Titus, D-Nev., if she could find […]
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By Kathryn Reed It was controlled chaos inside and outside of the airport in South Lake Tahoe on Monday as first responders and staff were put to the test in a mass casualty incident. A C130J airplane carrying 47 people crashed while landing – at least that was the scenario for the Aug. 25 drill. […]
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By Paige St. John, Los Angeles Times Jesus Ysasaga had been arrested multiple times and ordered by the court to keep away from his ex-girlfriend. Two parole boards sentenced him to nearly a year in jail for stalking, drunkenness and battery. But the Fresno County jail would not keep him. Four times in the summer […]
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