Two people were arrested April 6 in Truckee in connection with a vehicle that had been stolen in March in Reno. The owner of the stolen vehicle called the police about 4:45pm Thursday saying he saw his vehicle in Truckee. Officers responded near the Rite Aid store where they found the vehicle parked and unoccupied. […]
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A 60-year-old man was in critical condition after being struck by an alleged drunken driver early this morning in Incline Village. The pedestrian was on Tanager Street near Oriole Way at about 2:45am April 7 when a vehicle driven by Bradley Perry, 33, of Incline hit him, according to deputies with the Washoe County Sheriff’s […]
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By Scott Sonner, AP A former worker at the children’s ski school at Heavenly Mountain Resort pleaded not guilty Thursday to sexual exploitation of a minor and child pornography charges accusing him of photographing young children in a bathroom at a rural Nevada daycare. Stephan DeGraffenreid, 26, entered the pleas to four federal counts in […]
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By Colton Lochhead and Nicole Raz, Las Vegas Review-Journal Following in the footsteps of Colorado, Washington and other states which have legalized recreational marijuana, Nevada is bracing for an influx of cash — cash that will have no bank to call home. Because federal law prohibits banks and credit unions from depositing marijuana money, the […]
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By Meghin Delaney, Las Vegas Review-Journal Nevada school board trustees would be required to undergo at least six hours of training in the first and third years of their terms under a bill introduced this week. Training sessions would include financial management, public record laws and local government ethics, according to Assembly Bill 451. […]
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Douglas County exceeded its requirement to reduce fine sediment from reaching Lake Tahoe. The mandate was a 10 percent reduction that had an equivalent of 41 credits. One credit is equal to 200 pounds of fine sediment particles. Douglas earned 53 credits. The total maximum daily load program’s first deadline was in 2016. These numbers […]
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Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., is upset about the proposal to gut the Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act. On Tuesday he sent a letter to Department of the Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and Senate Interior and Environment Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman Lisa Murkowski and ranking member Tom Udall to express his strong concern with the recently […]
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By Angela Hart, Sacramento Bee A Santa Monica lawmaker is preparing to battle California’s powerful real estate industry, going after a state law that for two decades has blocked cities from adopting stronger rent control measures. A report released this year by California housing officials indicated the state’s housing crisis is unprecedented. So Democratic Assemblyman […]
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The National Weather Service is saying the storm approaching Lake Tahoe is expected to be the worst April storm in more than a decade. A winter storm watch is in effect from midnight April 7 to 5pm April 8. A flood watch starts at the same time and ends at 11am April 8. “There is […]
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By Taylor Kate Brown, BBC News At the height of California’s multi-year drought, Rafael Surmay’s well – the only source of water to his house – went dry. For two and a half years, Surmay, his wife, and his four children showered, cleaned, drank and cooked using a water tank and 10 gallons of bottled […]
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