By Bill O’Driscoll, Reno-Gazette-Journal Larry Woolf’s five-year run operating the casino inside Reno’s Grand Sierra Resort will be over on Monday. The long-time gaming executive, whose formative years are tied to such legends as Bill Harrah and John Ascuaga, will head back to his Las Vegas headquarters of Navegante Group, the casino management firm he’s […]
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By Reno Gazette-Journal The Bain Street Fire on Gieger Grade near Toll Road is about 40 percent contained this evening and full containment is expected by Tuesday, according to fire officials. The blaze scorched about 600 acres in steep terrain Sunday afternoon, and fire officials expected containment of the fire on Tuesday. Fire officials said […]
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A gas station, convenience store and car wash could break ground this fall at the Y in South Lake Tahoe at the site of the old Shell station. Raley’s, which leases the land from the Salvo Trust, has all the paperwork before South Lake Tahoe officials and has asked for an expedited review before the […]
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By David Siders, Sacramento Bee Tired of presidential candidates treating California like an ATM, raising vast sums of money here but spending it in states where campaigns cost less and matter more, state officials four years ago agreed to hold the 2008 primary in February. The early date, they hoped, might focus more attention on […]
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A Calaveras County woman has died from the injuries she sustained after being hit by an alleged drunken driver while she was crossing Highway 50 in Stateline. Joan Marie Hamrick, 60, of Valley Springs was struck while going from the Horizon casino to MontBleu at 1:17am Saturday. She was flown to Renown Medical Center in […]
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By Jason Hildago, Reno Gazette-Journal A nonprofit group hopes the release of a new “green directory” will help Nevada attract more business and get the state one step closer to its goal of being a renewable energy leader. The Nevada Institute for Renewable Energy Commercialization released the first edition of its Nevada Clean & Renewable […]
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By Nevada News Bureau Nevada experienced the greatest growth among the states in food stamp caseloads between 2007 and 2010 with an increase of 128 percent, according to a recent report from the Urban Institute. The jump in caseloads is attributable to a nearly 250 percent increase in state unemployment between 2007 and 2010, the […]
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By Kathryn Reed There is going to be a new face on the South Lake Tahoe Public Utility District board in December. Marylou Mosbacher, who has served for 21 years, is not running for another term. She knows she will miss being on the board, but said at 82 it’s time to focus her attention […]
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By Frank X. Mullen Jr., Reno Gazette-Journal When Democratic President Barack Obama this week urged Americans to contact their congressional representatives about the deadlock over raising the nation’s debt ceiling, Nevadans who live outside Clark County had no one to call in the U.S. House. With the U.S. House of Representatives’ District 2 seat vacant […]
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By Tim Johnson, McClatchy Newspapers EL DURAZNO, Mexico — Mexico’s heroin industry has had a bullish few years, and for traffickers the outlook is as uplifting as the scarlet, orange and yellow poppy flowers from which the narcotic is processed. What was once a problem largely confined to hubs in California and Texas, Mexican traffickers […]
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