By Rob Hotakainen, McClatchy News Service Delivering a big blow to backers of pot legalization, the Obama administration said Thursday that it would keep marijuana classified as one of the nation’s most dangerous drugs, similar to heroin and LSD. The long-awaited decision by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration keeps intact a 1970 law that lists marijuana […]
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By Kathryn Reed Former El Dorado County Supervisor Ray Nutting is suing past colleagues and staff because he believes his constitutional rights were violated. “The reason why I filed a claim is so they cannot do it ever, ever again to someone else,” Nutting told Lake Tahoe News. “If they did it to me, they […]
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By Neal Morton, Las Vegas Review-Journal Nevada taxpayers will spend more than half a million dollars to defend the state’s contested education savings account program. The total price tag reached $545,000 on Tuesday as the state Board of Examiners voted 2-0 to approve a $125,000 extension to a contract with the out-of-state law firm Bancroft […]
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By Daniel Rothberg, Las Vegas Sun In 2012, after several years working as an executive casino host for the Atlantis Casino Resort Spa in Reno and at Harrah’s before that, Sumona Islam took a job with the Grand Sierra Resort three miles away. One problem: Islam had signed a noncompete agreement preventing her from taking […]
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By Jose Olivares, Reno Gazette-Journal While things are looking up for Nevada’s economy, many Nevadans are still reeling from the effects of the recession and Congress must do more to help people get back on their feet, Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., said Tuesday. Heller made the comments at the Nevada Museum of Art during a […]
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By Associated Press Authorities say a Bay Area man has died after collapsing while biking on the Tahoe Rim Trail. Charles Brust, 64, of Pacifica collapsed the morning of Aug. 8. He had started from the Spooner Lake area. Douglas County Sheriff’s Office says a retired paramedic began CPR and continued until Tahoe Douglas firefighters and Douglas County […]
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By Kathryn Reed Planning – it’s what got Hal Cole interested in local politics and it’s the reason he is getting out. The South Lake Tahoe city councilman is not seeking another term. When he leaves at the end of the year he will have been on the council for five four-year terms that started […]
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A South Lake Tahoe man is accused of hitting a pedestrian near Highway 50 and Sierra Boulevard and then fleeing the scene. The victim, whose name has not been released, sustained non-life threatening injuries, and was treated and released from Barton Memorial Hospital after the Aug. 6 incident. Taken into custody was Gary J. Stanton, […]
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By Patricia Cohen, New York Times Steven Oshins, a Las Vegas lawyer who specializes in estate planning, has never met the wealthy software entrepreneur Dan Kloiber, but he is nonetheless intensely interested in Kloiber’s contentious divorce. “I have had a Google news alert on that for a couple years,” Oshins said as he discussed the […]
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By Sean Whaley, Las Vegas Review-Journal CARSON CITY — The Nevada Constitution gives citizens the right to weigh in on public policy issues through the use of ballot initiatives and referendums. The petition process, which dates nationally to the populist era of the early 20th century, lets the public put measures to the voters directly, […]
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