By Ellen Garrison, Sacramento Bee A San Francisco-based startup is offering a solution to a vexing problem for local governments – how to find and tax people renting their homes through online services such as Airbnb or HomeAway. Host Compliance, whose newest client is Placer County, is designed to find such homeowners and enforce payment […]
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Updated: Nov. 7, 9:12am: A 59-year-old Carson City man was killed Saturday night as he was crossing Highway 50 in South Lake Tahoe near the Marriott. Police and fire personnel tried to revive him, but were unsuccessful. His name has not been released pending notification of next of kin. While officers initially said the victim did […]
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Publisher’s note: This is the first of two stories investigating the toxic storm water runoff on the West Slope of El Dorado County. By Joann Eisenbrandt Last year’s El Nino winter brought much-needed rain to El Dorado County’s West Slope. But it brought something else as well. It brought allegations of repeated mismanagement and lack […]
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By Richard N. Velotta, Las Vegas Review-Journal You won’t see the casino industry leading the charge for passage of Question 2, Nevada’s recreational marijuana initiative. Odds are you also won’t see resorts sponsoring gatherings involving cannabis use or allowing guests to smoke in their rooms. That’s because the state Gaming Control Board, which regulates the […]
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By Adam Candee, Las Vegas Sun Nevada law requires your employer to give you time to vote on Election Day, but be prepared to prove that the hours you work present your only chance to exercise the right. A state law passed in 1960 mandates that employers provide between one and three paid hours of […]
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By Thomas Moore, Las Vegas Sun Decades before Apple sold watches and before the kids in the ’70s wore Casio calculators on their wrists, comic strip detective Dick Tracy used a precursor of the smartwatch to fight crime. Today, however, officials at Nevada casinos are concerned that smartwatches will be used illegally to cheat at table […]
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By Megan Messerly, Las Vegas Sun Down ballot, Democratic and Republican candidates are waging a quieter war for control of the Nevada Legislature. They’re not running the million-dollar races that have taken over your television, but they may have knocked on your door or given you a call, and their yard signs are probably parked […]
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By Robin Respaut, Reuters Californians are expected to pass a ballot measure on Election Day legalizing recreational marijuana, and the prospect has cities and counties seeing dollar signs. Proposition 64 would impose state taxes on the cultivation and sale of marijuana. But it also allows local jurisdictions to add taxes of their own, something many […]
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By Sandra Chereb, Las Vegas Review-Journal CARSON CITY — A criminal justice advisory panel agreed Tuesday to recommend that state lawmakers establish a special commission to set statewide sentencing guidelines for crimes. Creation of a sentencing commission, which would work to bring consistency to sentencing practices statewide, was one of several recommendations of the Advisory […]
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By Ellen Knickmeyer and Olga R. Rodriguez, AP A heavy dousing of autumn rain in Northern California has lifted a quarter of the state out of drought, the highest percentage in more than three years, according to a federal report Thursday. Water officials who oversaw mandatory water conservation by cities and towns emphasized three-fourths of […]
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