By Megan Messerly, Las Vegas Sun The primary election is barely in the rearview mirror, yet outside groups are already ramping up spending in Nevada with their sights on November’s general election. The groups — a mixture of super PACs and nonprofit “dark money” outfits that don’t have to disclose their donors — have started […]
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By Julie Cart, Los Angeles Times Here in California’s thirsty farm belt, where pumpjacks nod amid neat rows of crops, it’s a proposition that seems to make sense: using treated oil field wastewater to irrigate crops. Oil giant Chevron recycles 21 million gallons of that water each day and sells it to farmers who use […]
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Updated 9:50pm: The mandatory evacuation notice for the Trailhead Fire has been lifted. Containment is at 50 percent, with acreage burned not growing on Monday. It remains at 5,444 acres. More than 2,000 people continue to fight the wildland burning in a remote area of El Dorado County. It started June 28 in the Middle Fork […]
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By Nicole Raz, Las Vegas Review-Journal Nevada is at the forefront of pushing the national unmanned aircraft system or drone industry forward. “We view all the UAS test sites as equals,” a Federal Aviation Administration spokesman said. “However, Nevada has one distinction: It’s the only site to have the ability to certify unmanned aircraft as […]
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By Robert Kuo, Sacramento Bee Driving to San Francisco or Lake Tahoe for the weekend? Be careful not to hit the wildlife on these roadways. A UC Davis professor who tracks vehicle-animal collisions found that in the Sacramento region, the most animals are killed on Interstate 80 from Davis to Sacramento, the stretch of road […]
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By Adelaide Chen, Las Vegas Review-Journal Nevada isn’t a majority-minority state quite yet. But it is projected to be in 2022 or 2023, according to the state demographer. Part of the driving force is that more of Nevada’s 19-and-under population is Hispanic than white (non-Hispanic white). As of 2015, the estimate was 41 percent to […]
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By Geoff Mulvihill, AP It’s getting harder to know who is funding political advertising at the state level as more money becomes anonymous or is filtered from one political action committee to another, a study finds. In 2014, the last year in which statewide elections were widespread across the country, only 29 cents of every […]
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A felon with a thick arrest record is behind bars again after being arrested at a South Lake Tahoe beach on Sunday. Part of Sean Wanamaker’s parole restrictions is that he isn’t supposed to set foot in South Lake Tahoe, police Sgt. Travis Cabral told Lake Tahoe News. Not only has he been in town […]
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Combined, South Lake Tahoe, El Dorado and Placer counties have been awarded millions of dollars from the California Transportation Commission. South Lake Tahoe is getting $36.4 million for water treatment improvements and reconstruction of 10 lane miles of roadway on Highway 50 from north of the Highway 89 junction to the Trout Creek Bridge. El Dorado […]
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Updated 6:54pm: An air and ground assault continues today by firefighters working the Trailhead Fire in rural and remote El Dorado County. Since the wildland blaze started June 28, 5,044 acres have burned. Contained has increased to 20 percent. Most of the fire is burning in El Dorado County, which is where all the evacuations are. There […]
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