By Steve Green, Las Vegas Sun Nevada’s $59.5 million horse race-betting sector will continue operating after the Nevada Gaming Commission pressed Thursday for the industry to avert a shutdown that threatened to take effect as early as today. The shutdown was threatened after the state’s 83 race books were unable to agree on a new […]
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By Andrew Prince, NPR Intense forest fires have been raging across the western United States this summer. So far this year, nearly 43,000 wildfires have torched almost 7 million acres of land. As NPR Science correspondent Christopher Joyce and photographer David Gilkey report from Arizona and New Mexico this week, the forests of the American […]
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By Kathryn Reed Two people were hospitalized Friday after the motorcycle they were on was hit by a car in the middle of South Lake Tahoe. Shirley Kravan was in the vehicle behind the motorcycle on Highway 50 heading west and saw the whole thing unfold. She told Lake Tahoe News a car came from […]
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By Donald G. McNeil Jr., New York Times The nation is heading toward the worst outbreak of West Nile disease in the 13 years that the virus has been on this continent, federal health authorities said Wednesday.But it is still unclear where and how far cases will spread. Dallas declared an emergency last week, and […]
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By Jim Fuquay, Fort Worth Star-Telegram A controversial Environmental Protection Agency rule on interstate air pollution, which had been challenged by Dallas-based Energy Future Holdings, the state of Texas and other energy interests, was set aside Tuesday in a 2-1 decision by a federal appeals court in Washington. The three-judge panel of the U.S. Court […]
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By Ed Fletcher, Sacramento Bee Most Placer County employees will be asked to pay the full share of pension costs under a new two-year contract approved by Placer County supervisors on Tuesday. For most Placer Public Employees Organization members, the contribution will amount to about 6 percent of pay. In exchange, the county will contribute […]
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By Richard Marosi, Los Angeles Times More than 550,000 marijuana plants with an estimated street value of $1 billion have been seized during an eight-week crackdown targeting illegal marijuana growing operations on public lands across seven Western states, federal authorities announced on Tuesday. Operation Mountain Sweep, which started July 1, netted 96 illegal marijuana grows […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – The Edgewood Lodge project kept its “no negative comments” streak alive Thursday with 11 positive remarks. In a series of votes by the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency Governing Board, the hotel project on Edgewood Tahoe golf course received not a single no vote or abstention from any board member at […]
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By Kelsey Sheehy, U.S. News and World Report Nearly 1.7 million high school graduates took the ACT college entrance exam in 2012, testing their knowledge of four core subjects—English, math, science, and reading. But most of those students are not prepped for success in college or the workforce, according to a report released this week […]
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By Kathryn Reed A clear case of conflict of interest reared its head Tuesday night at the Lake Tahoe Unified School District meeting, but no one put an end to it. Steve Morales, facilities director for the district, is also a founding member of the Community Athletic Coordinating Council. This group has been overseeing aspects […]
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