Statistics from the Washoe County Sheriff’s Office’s recent Joining Forces click it or ticket traffic safety campaign indicate that drivers are buckling up, but many are speeding and driving while distracted by their cell phones. Of the 360 citations issued during this three-week campaign, five were for seat belt violation. However, 151 citations were issued […]
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A 32-year-old Reno man remains in custody this morning on pimping and other charges. Bail for Francisco Nieves has been set at $345,000. He was in arrested in South Lake Tahoe on Dec. 19 after the 23-year-old victim reported the crime to Carson City sheriff’s deputies. She told investigators the incident occurred at a South […]
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By Kathryn Reed Two board members of the California Tahoe Conservancy have refused to resign even though they have been asked to do so. And now the state agency’s attorney is backpedaling when it comes to what exactly he wants them to do. Tom Davis and Sue Novasel, who represent South Lake Tahoe and El […]
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By Jeremy B. White, Sacramento Bee Every Fall, Gov. Jerry Brown’s time is consumed by what could best be described as legislative triage. He sifts through the hundreds of bills sent to his desk and decides which ones will become law. This year, the Legislature sent Brown 1,059 pieces of legislation, 898 of which the […]
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Truckee is about to have a new police chief. Capt. Rob Leftwich is being promoted. Adam Gill, who has been chief for five years, is leaving next month to take the helm of Novato Police Department. Leftwich has worked side-by-side with McGill. Captain is the second highest ranking office in this department. Leftwich has a […]
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By Jenny Kane, Reno Gazette-Journal The Burning Man Project is more than a million bucks closer to taking over the world with its art and principles. The San Francisco-based arts nonprofit, known best for its elaborate, 70,000-person annual arts-centric gathering in Northern Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, has released last year’s tax documents, revealing that the organization pulled in $36.9 million and […]
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By Richard N. Velotta, Las Vegas Review-Journal Depending on which side of Question 2 you sat, you’re either embracing Jan. 1 or dreading its arrival. How we treat the arrival of recreational marijuana is going to be the subject of continuing debate through 2017 as leaders sort out all the regulatory details of public […]
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By Kathryn Reed “We would not be able to have SnowGlobe if Rock Med was not here.” Those are the words of South Lake Tahoe Fire Chief Jeff Meston. For a department his size, when there are four patients it is considered a multi-casualty incident. If everyone who was treated at the three-day music festival […]
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By Phillip Reese, Sacramento Bee Like much of America, California’s wealth is concentrated among a small group of high-income earners. The state has 16 million households, and just 61,000 of them — 0.4 percent — together account for one-fifth of the state’s income, according to the latest tax return figures from the Franchise Tax Board. […]
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By Ellen Knickmeyer, AP The first winter storm of 2017 to drop welcome rain over the rivers, pumps, pipes and canals that move California’s water north to south likely will open a new era of tension over how much water goes to fish or farms under a new U.S law. Legislation signed Friday by President […]
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