By Mike Higdon, Reno Gazette-Journal The first new behavioral health hospital in almost 30 years will open next year. Reno Behavioral Healthcare Hospital broke ground near Target in the Meadowood area of Reno. The 80,000 square-foot mental health hospital and addiction rehabilitation center will operate 120 inpatient beds and outpatient services for children, teens, adults and seniors in Northern Nevada […]
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The El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office just put out a notice that a Pollock Pines woman has been missing for a week. Kimberly Gillespie, 42, was last seen July 8, possibly walking in a rural area east of Pollock Pines. She is deaf and has other disabilities that affect her memory and mobility. She white, 5-feet-inches, approximately […]
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By Greg Moran, San Diego Union Tribune Guidelines issued by California gambling regulators for how card rooms in the state can conduct some high-stakes card games don’t satisfy Indian gaming officials, who say the new rules still allow card rooms to illegally have Las Vegas-style games. The June 30 guidelines issued by the Bureau of Gambling […]
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By Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle A fifth year of disappointing snow in the Sierra is part of a much larger predicament of record-low snow across the Northern Hemisphere, a setback that scientists identified Wednesday as another reminder of the alarming pace of human-caused global warming. A panel of climate experts organized by SEARCH, or […]
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By Sean Whaley, Las Vegas Review-Journal CARSON CITY — Three petitions — seeking to restore favorable net metering rates, open Nevada’s electricity markets to competition and exempt medical equipment from the sales tax — have qualified for the November general election ballot, Nevada Secretary of State Barbara Cegavske said. The energy competition measure, which would […]
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By Adam Allington, AP During their working years, women tend to earn less than men, and when they retire, they’re more likely to live in poverty. These are women who raised children and cared for sick and elderly family members, often taking what savings and income they do have and spending it on things besides […]
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By Chris Kudialis, Las Vegas Sun Making recreational marijuana legal in Nevada would help eliminate black market sales and generate millions of tax dollars for education, representatives of an advocacy group said Tuesday. Speaking at the law offices of Ashcraft and Barr, 2300 W. Sahara Ave., representatives of the Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol […]
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By Mark Robison, Reno Gazette-Journal “The big news is that drought has waned over the last three months.” That’s the opening sentence of the quarterly report put out July 13 by the Nevada State Climate Office. Above normal winter and spring precipitation was given as the main reason. Read the whole story
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By Trevon Milliard, Reno Gazette-Journal Nevada will receive a $1.8 million settlement from test-maker Smart Balanced Assessment Consortium for the screw-up that resulted in only a third of public school students completing standardized exams in 2015. The settlement, announced Tuesday by the Nevada Attorney General’s Office, is the latest reimbursement reached for testing problems in 2015. In April, […]
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By Sean Whaley, Las Vegas Review-Journal CARSON CITY — Nevada officials on Tuesday approved a $120,000 settlement with the Environmental Protection Agency over violations relating to polluted stormwater runoff from state Transportation Department-run facilities. The consent decree, approved by the Board of Examiners, which includes Gov. Brian Sandoval, acknowledges past stormwater management violations and formalizes […]
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