By Tracy Rucinski, Reuters Caesars Entertainment Corp.’s bankrupt operating unit resolved a dispute with its lenders on Friday, paving the way for a consensual plan to push the casino group out of its $18 billion Chapter 11. In filings with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Chicago, bank lenders said they had reached an agreement over […]
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By Kathryn Reed Two Markleeville men face multiple charges related to illegally hunting deer in Alpine County. “This is about as egregious as anything we deal with, second only to wildlife trafficking,” Lt. Chris Stoots with California Department of Fish and Wildlife told Lake Tahoe News. Ramsey Horse, 29, and William Berreman, 26, are accused […]
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By Bob Berwyn, Inside Climate News There are warning signs that some forests in the Western U.S. may have a hard time recovering from the large and intense wildfires that have become more common as the climate warms. After studying 14 burned areas across 10 national forests in California, scientists from UC Davis and the […]
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A South Lake Tahoe woman is accused of operating a fraudulent travel business near Reno. Washoe County Sheriff’s Office received 71 complaints from victims of this business since the investigation began in September 2015. Vivian Saenz-Alvarado, 39, was arrested Dec. 7 and a week later transferred to the Washoe County Detention Facility on Dec. 14. […]
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By Thomas Moore, Las Vegas Sun Gamblers left more than $35 million on casino floors in the past five years, money the state of Nevada was happy to come along and pick up. The cash came in the form of slot and video machine tickets that players either lost, forgot about or simply didn’t bother […]
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By Henry Brean, Las Vegas Review-Journal Call it the Great Basin boom. Utah and Nevada ranked as the nation’s two fastest-growing states over the past year, according to U.S. Census Bureau population estimates for 2016 released Tuesday. Utah’s population grew by just more than 2 percent while Nevada’s added 1.95 percent from July 1, 2015, […]
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The Washoe County Sheriff’s Office has received a number of reports this week from people saying they received phone calls from someone claiming to be from the department and stating that the potential victim has “law enforcement issues” which need to be taken care of. Typically with these types of scams, the scammer provides instruction […]
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More than 103 million Americans—the most on record—are expected to travel for the year-end holidays, according to AAA. This represents a 1.5 percent increase, or 1.5 million more people traveling, compared with last year. This comes despite one fewer travel day this holiday season. The year-end holiday travel period is defined as Dec. 23 to […]
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By Associated Press State officials say Nevada’s public high school graduation rate is up almost 3 percentage points from the previous year. The Nevada Department of Education says the graduation rate for the class of 2016 is 73.6 percent. That’s up from 70.8 percent in 2015. More than 1,000 more Nevada students graduated high school […]
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