By Henry Brean, Las Vegas Review-Journal More than 1.1 million public comments have poured in so far on the Trump administration’s review and possible rollback of national monuments in Nevada and elsewhere. Conservationists in the Silver State hope to push that number even higher in the closing days of the comment period. The Department of […]
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By Nicole Raz, Las Vegas Review-Journal A new WalletHub study ranks Nevada as the 35th best state in which to start a new business, but Nevada officials question inclusion of some of the metrics used in the study. It’s a low score compared with the rankings the state has recently received. A January study from […]
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By Arthur Kane, Las Vegas Review-Journal Nevada governments are using the underfunded state pension system to boost the income of public employees. The practice, which is legal but often based on decades-old or misused exemptions to the law, costs taxpayers at least $23 million a year in pension and salary, a Las Vegas Review-Journal investigation […]
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By Jenny Kane, Reno Gazette-Journal Nevada dispensaries licensed to sell recreational marijuana are running out of pot less than a week after the legal market came to life, according to the state Department of Taxation. On Friday, taxation officials announced that Gov. Brian Sandoval had endorsed the department’s “statement of emergency,” allowing state officials to consider adopting […]
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By Associated Press California’s emergency services director fired off a sharply worded letter to the U.S. Forest Service this week that said the agency had stiffed local governments $18 million for fighting wildfires on federal lands last year and raised the prospect the state may stop protecting national forests during blazes. “I cannot continue to […]
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By Lake Tahoe News Cindy Gustafson, general manager for the Tahoe City Public Utility District, is quitting to become CEO of North Lake Tahoe Resort Association. She is leaving one agency mired in controversy to join another with its own issues. Gustafson has been with TCPUD for 26 years, with the last nine as the […]
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By Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle Hate crimes in California are increasing, particularly attacks on Muslims and gay men, after nearly a decade of decline, the state attorney general’s office reported. There were 931 hate-driven incidents reported by local law enforcement agencies in 2016, an 11.2 percent increase over the 2015 total and a 20 […]
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By Jenny Kane, Reno Gazette-Journal The four Reno dispensaries licensed to sell recreational marijuana each raked in “hundreds of thousands of dollars” in the past four days from the state’s first legal recreational marijuana sales, according to Will Adler, executive director of the Sierra Cannabis Coalition. The Nevada Department of Taxation will not release numbers for state revenue […]
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By Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle Bill Evers, a San Francisco attorney who co-founded the League to Save Lake Tahoe and served as head of the San Francisco Mayor’s Office of Economic Development under George Moscone and Dianne Feinstein, has died. Mr. Evers died June 28 at his home in Pacific Heights after a short […]
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By Associated Press The San Jose Earthquakes say Matheus Silva has emerged from a coma, two days after the Brazilian defender was rescued from Lake Tahoe. Silva came out of the coma Thursday morning. He was responsive and able to speak, but will undergo additional testing. The 20-year-old was playing this season on loan […]
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