By Mike Higdon, Reno Gazette-Journal “You may have extra cash this holiday season and not even know it,” according to the Nevada State Treasurer. Nevada’s Unclaimed Property Division has nearly $900 million in property waiting to be claimed by its owners or their descendants. Read the whole story
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By Kathryn Reed Of the 140 citations South Lake Tahoe has issued to vacation home owners, 68 were for renting without a permit. The illegal operators are ordered to immediately stop advertising their rental. While they can go through the permit process to come into compliance, it’s not a slam dunk to get approved. And […]
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By Sandra Chereb, Las Vegas Review-Journal CARSON CITY — A panel of lawmakers Thursday accepted a $1.17 million federal grant to continue to chip away at the backlog of thousands of untested rape kits in Nevada. The Legislature’s Interim Finance Committee authorized the use of the National Sexual Assault Kit Initiative funding for the attorney […]
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By Matt Stevens, Los Angeles Times When California water officials assess the drought, the first place they look is the northern Sierra Nevada mountains. Rain and snowmelt from the area feed into a complex system of rivers, canals and reservoirs that send water across the state. And by almost all measures, the drought picture in […]
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By Kathryn Reed El Dorado County is moving forward with plans to construct a roundabout at the intersection of Highway 50 and Pioneer Trail in Meyers. The county was just awarded a grant for $2,932,840 from the Federal Highway Administration’s Highway Safety Improvement Program. This was less than the requested amount of $3,450,400. “Right now we […]
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By Chelsea Harvey, Washington Post A report published Thursday as a special edition of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society provides some of the best evidence yet that climate change already has a hand in our worst weather. It points to a variety of extreme weather events in 2015 that were likely influenced by global warming, […]
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Gunshots heard in Meyers this afternoon led officers to track down some guys from Stockton who were target shooting. “It wasn’t that far from houses,” El Dorado County sheriff’s Lt. Matt Underhill told Lake Tahoe News. The men were firing off rounds at the end of Lost Lane at about 4pm Dec. 16. Detectives are […]
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By Brad Branan, Sacramento Bee A Nevada City advocacy group has filed a legal challenge to Squaw Valley’s expansion plan, saying Placer County violated the California Environmental Quality Act by approving the development last month. County supervisors approved construction of hotels, condominiums and housing of up to 1,500 rooms, up to 300,000 square feet of […]
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By Associated Press Nevada has the sixth fastest-growing private sector in the country in another sign that the state has rebounded from the recession. The Nevada Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation said Tuesday that the state’s job growth rate was 3.2 percent at the middle of 2016. That puts Nevada’s rate behind only Utah, […]
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By Bristow Marchant, Tribune News Service With Donald Trump moving into the White House and former Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid heading back to Nevada, Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., is optimistic the Yucca Mountain nuclear-waste repository soon could be back on the federal government’s agenda. The South Carolina Republican told the Columbia Rotary Club on […]
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