By Ken Ritter, AP Sheriffs in most Nevada counties have come out against a background check initiative that gun control advocates are supporting on the ballot this November, but the top cop in the largest police agency in the state says he’ll sit this one out. “This is a vote of the people,” Joe Lombardo, […]
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By Sean Whaley, Las Vegas Review-Journal CARSON CITY — Nevada casinos posted a strong 6.8 percent gaming win in June, helping the state’s major industry eke out a tiny 0.66 percent gain for the fiscal year that ended June 30, the state Gaming Control Board reported Friday. One of the two down markets was the […]
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By Chris Kudialis, Las Vegas Sun Medical marijuana dispensaries should no longer be able to accept California doctors’ recommendations from out-of-state patients to purchase in Nevada, according to an opinion from the state Attorney General’s Office, sent last week to the Department of Health and Human Services. In a letter from Attorney General Adam Laxalt to […]
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By Paul Kane, Washington Post LAS VEGAS — The formidable political machine Harry M. Reid built in Nevada will face its most difficult task to date when it tries to hold on to the Senate seat being vacated by the retiring minority leader next year. After getting crushed in the 2014 midterm elections, Senate Democrats […]
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By Jim Carlton, Wall Street Journal SEQUOIA NATIONAL FOREST — Wildfires scorching the West are revealing an unexpected bounty: newly uncovered historic artifacts, some dating back thousands of years. Looters and government archaeologists are scouring charred earth for the new archaeological treasures—sometimes even before all the embers are out. Last summer, a fire that blackened […]
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By Bobby Magill, Scientific American Reports this week from the front lines of the Sand Fire in Southern California painted the scene as apocalyptic. The drought-fueled blaze was explosive, fast-moving and devastating, burning through 38,000 acres in the Santa Clarita Valley and forcing the evacuation of more than 10,000 homes. If the state’s wildfire season holds true to […]
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Between $750,000 and $1 million will be allocated annually for North Lake Tahoe area public transit improvements. The money is Federal Transit Administration funds that come to the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency that will be passed through to Placer County. Placer County and the Tahoe Transportation District are now eligible for additional FTA funds following […]
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By Linda Fine Conaboy INCLINE VILLAGE – It’s been said that Lake Tahoe is a complex body that man may never understand. That is true; however, UC Davis and Geoff Schladow, the director of the UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center housed at Sierra Nevada College, are doing their best to prove that statement wrong—well, […]
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By Kathryn Reed If the preferred alternative is not selected, the developer of the Tahoe City Lodge said he would abandon the project. Samir Tuma spoke before the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency Governing Board on Wednesday about the hotel he wants to build near the lake. This would be the first new lodging facility in […]
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A 30-year-old murder case now has a $25,000 reward associated with it. On June 2, 1986, 76-year-old Halley Wing, a grandfather and former law enforcement officer, was gunned down in the driveway of his son’s ranch on the West Slope. The day of the murder, Wing’s family had plans to celebrate his son’s 49th birthday. That […]
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