By Alison Noon, AP CARSON CITY — Weighing in on how Nevada should test people for stoned driving, lawmakers advanced a measure on Friday to eliminate urine samples as a viable measure for police to show a driver to be impaired by marijuana. Under the bipartisan proposal, law enforcement officers would continue using blood tests […]
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By Sandra Chereb, Las Vegas Review-Journal CARSON CITY — There was no opposition Thursday to a bill imposing lodging taxes on short-term rentals arranged through online outfits like Airbnb if such rentals are allowed by local governments. Assemblywoman Irene Bustamante Adams, D-Las Vegas, said the purpose of Assembly Bill 294 is to bring parity to […]
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By Sean Whaley, Las Vegas Review-Journal CARSON CITY — It’s crunch time at the Nevada Legislature, with 30 days and counting to a mandatory June 5 adjournment. Based on legislative history, 75 percent of the work of the 120-day session will be accomplished in the remaining 25 percent of the time available. Weekends off […]
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Lake Tahoe Unified School District’s board on Tuesday is being asked to increase the rate of pay for the next principal of South Tahoe High School. The recommendation is for the rate to increase by 5.2 percent. In year one the rate would be $111,601, going to $134,040 in year eight. The position would also […]
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By Emma Court, Market Watch The Affordable Care Act was among the likely factors that assisted with a big decrease — nearly 50 percent — in personal bankruptcy filings in the last six years, according to a Consumer Reports analysis. Other factors, including new bankruptcy laws, a rebounding economy and tighter credit requirements, also likely […]
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By Ed Fletcher, Sacramento Bee Nevada County this week became the latest municipality – and the first in the Sacramento region – to reach an agreement allowing the fast-growing vacation housing website Airbnb to collect and pay transient occupancy taxes on behalf of its hosts. The San Francisco company says it has worked out […]
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By Seth Borenstein, AP WASHINGTON — A robot zaps and vacuums up venomous lionfish in Bermuda. A helicopter pelts Guam’s trees with poison-baited dead mice to fight the voracious brown tree snake. A special boat with giant winglike nets stuns and catches Asian carp in the U.S. Midwest. In the fight against alien animals that […]
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Updated May 7: The following statement was issued by Washoe County Sheriff Chuck Allen this morning after learning that the bear from the May 6 incident has died: “I am saddened to hear of the passing of the bear from yesterday’s incident in Incline Village involving one of our deputies. We appreciate the efforts made […]
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By Bill Lindelof, Sacramento Bee A man has been identified as the suspected killer of two El Dorado County camp counselors who were shot and killed while in their sleeping bags on a Sonoma County beach nearly 13 years ago. Sonoma County Sheriff Steve Freitas said at a May 5 news conference that Shaun […]
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By Kathryn Reed Aging and inadequate infrastructure are the big reasons South Tahoe Public Utility District continues to raise rates. The massive sewer line failure in the Tahoe Keys that is still being fixed is one example. Generators that failed during the January floods is another. Twenty-five miles of water lines are too small to […]
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