By Todd Prince, Las Vegas Review-Journal Wall Street is placing its chips on Las Vegas. Gaming industry stocks such as Wynn Resorts and MGM Resorts International have been on a roll this year amid solid revenue growth at home and on Macau. And the Raiders move to Las Vegas has helped draw investor attention […]
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By Sean Whaley, Las Vegas Review-Journal CARSON CITY — An amended version of a bill that ride sharing companies Uber and Lyft said would run them out of business in Nevada is dead. Senate Bill 226, which had language amended into it increasing insurance requirements for the independent contractors who work for the companies, […]
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By Sage Sauerbrey, Moonshine Ink Short-term rentals have become a linchpin component in the housing conversation, and communities across the West have had very different ways of facing the issue. Jackson Hole, Wyo., recently banned short-term rentals, San Francisco has adopted a series of different regulations, and Mammoth Lakes only allows short-term rentals in specifically […]
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Placer County is trying to figure out what to do with the firehouse near Commons Beach that was vacated by the North Tahoe Fire Protection District in 2011. The county started a public process for the site in 2011, but elected to wait for other planning efforts that would affect the potential uses for the […]
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Publisher’s note: Lake Tahoe News this month will be running several stories leading up to the 10th anniversary of the Angora Fire on June 24, 2007. By Kathryn Reed It will happen again – another devastating fire in the Lake Tahoe Basin. But next time could be different based on the lessons learned from the […]
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By Seth Borenstein, AP A warmer, wetter climate is helping push dozens of Eastern U.S. trees to the north and, surprisingly, west, a study finds. The eastern white pine is going west, more than 80 miles since the early 1980s. The eastern cottonwood has been heading 77 miles north, according to the research based on […]
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By Chris Kudialis, Las Vegas Sun The Denver dispensary is called Medicine Man and was founded on serving medical marijuana patients. Yet, since Colorado legalized recreational marijuana sales three years ago, few of the store’s patrons have been making medicinal purchases. “There’s less need for medical inventory because we have less medical customers,” said Andy […]
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Starting in July, Western Sierra Medical Clinic will provide medical and dental services to low-income North Lake Tahoe residents in place of Placer County’s current health clinic in Kings Beach. Most of the existing county medical staff will join the nonprofit Western Sierra, and several Placer County nurses will remain onsite. The county will no […]
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By Ben Botkin and Sandra Chereb, Las Vegas Review-Journal CARSON CITY — Gov. Brian Sandoval said Friday there will be no special session of the Nevada Legislature but didn’t comment further on a partisan blowup over education savings accounts that disrupted the session’s final days. “Here’s news for you,” Sandoval told a handful of reporters […]
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By Associated Press A wet winter has produced a bumper crop of cheatgrass that fire officials in Northern Nevada expect will dry out and become prime fuel for the smallest of sparks during a hot, dry wildfire season ahead. Battalion Chief Larry Goss of the East Fork Fire District said that the potential exists […]
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