By Daniel Rothberg, Las Vegas Sun On a trip to Great Basin National Park, UNLV geoscience Professor Matt Lachniet says that rainfall many millennia ago formed lakes in the desolate basins lining this strip of rural highway. Between the towns of Pioche and Panaca, we stop at Cathedral Gorge, where a multimillion-year dance of erosion and […]
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By Sean Whaley, Las Vegas Review-Journal CARSON CITY — Nevada Highway Patrol troopers soon will have another set of eyes on their interactions with the public. Nevada’s 465 uniformed patrol officers who deal directly with the public are on track to begin wearing body cameras by a January deadline, joining Las Vegas police in the […]
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By Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times Many thousands of Californians are dying every year from infections they caught while in hospitals. But you’d never know that from their death certificates. Sharley McMullen of Manhattan Beach came down with a fever just hours after being wheeled out of a Torrance Memorial Medical Center operating room on May […]
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By David Bunker, Moonshine Ink The Nevada County District Attorney’s Office has closed its two-year investigation into former Tahoe Forest Hospital CEO Bob Schapper. District Attorney Cliff Newell said his office will file no charges in the case and will pursue no further action regarding the investigation. Newell launched his investigation following the July 2014 […]
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Three wildland fires have burned on the South Shore in a 24-hour period. Late this afternoon the U.S. Forest Service was busy with a quarter-acre fire in Rabe Meadow in Stateline. The cause is under investigation. Tahoe Douglas crews were first on the scene to suppress the fire. The other blaze on Oct. 9 was […]
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By Kara Fox, Moonshine Ink By 2025, all water systems in California must be metered. This requirement proved too much for Mid-Sierra Utilities, which owns and operates Tahoe Cedars and Madden Creek water companies in Homewood and Tahoma. “I didn’t want to put in the meters, so I sold it,” said Robbie Marr, president of Mid-Sierra […]
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By Colton Lochhead, Las Vegas Review-Journal Nevadans are split when it comes to legalizing recreational marijuana use, according to a poll of 800 likely voters commissioned by the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Forty-seven percent said they would vote “yes” on Question 2 on the Nov. 8 ballot, 46 percent opposed the measure, and 7 percent remained […]
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By Max A. Cherney, Reveal Walter Baronowski didn’t think there was anything peculiar about a couple of guys renting his mother’s Florida house. He was relatively new to vacation rentals and managing the investment property, listing it on sites such as Airbnb and Expedia Inc.-owned HomeAway. Last-minute rentals weren’t a frequent occurrence, but it was, […]
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By Seth A. Richardson, Las Vegas Sun A federal judge on Friday found partially in favor of two Native American tribes in their lawsuit against the Secretary of State’s Office and two Nevada counties in a voter disenfranchisement case. Federal Judge Miranda Du released her ruling late Oct. 7 which found in favor of the Pyramid […]
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Caltrans is seeking comments on the environmental document for the Echo Summit project. The transportation department wants to replace the viaduct on Highway 50 with a single span bridge. The project includes upgrading the existing guardrail to current standards, constructing concrete transition barriers from the new bridge rail to the upgraded guardrail, grinding the asphalt […]
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