By Aaron Orlowski, Orange County Register Last month, state water officials eased conservation mandates in response to slightly above-average winter rain and snow in much of California, leading many to speculate that the state’s long-running drought has tapered off. If only. The El Niño winter that forecasters said could drench the state with rain and […]
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By J.D. Morris, Las Vegas Sun Jan Jones Blackhurst stood in a large ballroom at the Mirage on Wednesday and showed an image that she said illustrated a critical issue for the casino industry. It was more than a dozen headshots of executives from a certain gambling company. All but one were men. Jones Blackhurst, […]
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By Sean Whaley, Las Vegas Review-Journal CARSON CITY — Nevada has regained nearly all of the 175,000 jobs lost during the Great Recession and should fully recover later this year, a state economist told the Economic Forum on Thursday. Bill Anderson, chief economist for the state Employment, Training and Rehabilitation Department, said Nevada added 140,000 […]
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By Jasen Lee, Deseret News Distracted driving is on the rise as texting and social media usage are increasing among teenage drivers, according to AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. Nationally, during the past five years more than 5,000 people have been killed in crashes involving teen drivers during the summer months. And nearly 60 percent […]
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By Sean Whaley, Las Vegas Review-Journal CARSON CITY — Rarely have Nevada Republican voters had such clear choices about the future of their party as they do in Tuesday’s primary election. On one side is Gov. Brian Sandoval and the GOP state lawmakers who stood with him on the 2015 budget, which included $1.5 billion […]
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By Associated Press Authorities have identified a paddleboarder who went missing in Lake Tahoe as a UNR football player. The Placer County Sheriff’s Office says the search was ongoing Saturday for Marc Ma, but at this time believe it will be recovery. According to a news release, Ma was on a paddleboard trip with several […]
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Sierra Nevada College is considering offering a bachelor’s degree in global business management at Lake Tahoe Community College. The two institutions are having an open house June 16 at 5pm in LTCC’s Aspen Room to gauge the level of interest in the program. The Incline Village-based private four-year college would offer a per-credit rate of $382 to LTCC students. […]
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Placer County’s budget for 2016-17 is $34.3 million less than last year’s final budget. Most of the savings ($31.7 million) come from a number of maintenance and construction projects winding down, most notably the Auburn Animal Services facility and the Kings Beach Commercial Core Improvement Project. The fiscal year begins July 1. The $782 million proposed […]
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Interest in the former Kingsbury Middle School site continues to be lukewarm at best. “We’ve had a few phone calls, so we hope there might be some interest out there,” Douglas County School District Superintendent Teri White told Lake Tahoe News. The sale of the Stateline property will be back before the school board on […]
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By Nicole Raz, Las Vegas Review-Journal The nation’s first passenger-carrying drone manufacturing company is coming to test its system in Nevada. EHang Inc., a company headquartered in Guangzhou, China, is developing a drone capable of carrying passengers. A passenger would enter a destination into the drone system’s accompanying smartphone app. The Nevada Institute for Autonomous […]
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