By Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle Last year’s devastating floods and fires in California combined with hurricanes and other natural disasters to wreak unprecedented financial damage on the United States, the federal government reported Monday. The nation endured 16 weather and climate events that inflicted $1 billion or more apiece in damage in 2017, […]
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By Wayne Parry, AP ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — A new report predicts 18 states will introduce bills to regulate sports betting this year, with 11 having a good chance of passing legislation. Eilers & Krejcik Gaming, which tracks gambling legislation nationwide, says that’s just the minimum; the firm predicts more than 30 states could introduce […]
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By Susan Wood When the Winter Games in PyeongChang, South Korea, surge into our consciousness next month, retired alpine ski racer Marco Sullivan’s snow-filled mind is sure to drift to another mountain. Sullivan, like many before and expectedly after him, grew up gracing the slopes of Squaw Valley. Squaw, like its southern Lake Tahoe counterpart […]
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By Colton Lochhead, Las Vegas Review-Journal Nevada is sure to see plenty of national attention as this year’s election cycle ramps up. Politico recently rated the Silver State’s 2018 battles for U.S. Senate and governor as races to watch. Sen. Dean Heller’s re-election bid, which features a primary challenge from businessman Danny Tarkanian and a […]
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By Yvonne Gonzalez, Las Vegas Sun Twenty-six palm-sized portraits of Nevada’s U.S. senators hang on a wall here. The most recent portrait is not another man in a no-nonsense tie, but a pearl-wearing Latina whose election in 2016 made state history. As the state’s first female senator and the chamber’s first Hispanic woman, Catherine Cortez […]
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By Joaquin Palomino, San Francisco Chronicle North Bay lawmakers have introduced a bill to bolster the ability of emergency officials to contact residents who may be in harm’s way — a topic that has been scrutinized since last year’s devastating wildfires. The legislation, introduced by multiple lawmakers, including state Sen. Mike McGuire, D-Healdsburg, would create […]
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By Kathryn Reed Tahoe Wellness Cooperative shut its doors on Jan. 7, but the medicinal marijuana shop hopes to reopen tonight or Tuesday morning. There is a discrepancy as to why exactly the doors were closed because neither the state nor the city of South Lake Tahoe directed the business to do so. “He decided […]
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By Nellie Bowles, New York Times SAN FRANCISCO — At Rainbow Grocery, a cooperative in this city’s Mission District, one brand of water is so popular that it’s often out of stock. But one recent evening, there was a glittering rack of it: glass orbs containing 2.5 gallons of what is billed as “raw […]
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By Kathryn Reed Like most things in the basin, even Lake Tahoe Airport is seasonal. Sixty-eight percent of the landings are between May and October. This was just one of the many statistics that was part of a workshop last month conducted by airport manager Mark Gibbs for the South Lake Tahoe City Council. On […]
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David Stryder Franklin, age 44, passed away in a tragic accident on Jan. 1, 2018, in Costa Mesa, Calif. Funeral services will be at Pacific View Memorial Park and Mortuary located at 3500 Pacific View Drive in Corona del Mar, on Jan. 12, 2018 at 2pm. Stryder was born in Hollywood on March 25, 1973, […]
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