By Sam Richards, Bay Area News Group CONCORD — Assembly candidate Tim Grayson has apologized for a campaign mailer sent to some households in Contra Costa and Solano counties touting his contact with kidnapping victim Jaycee Lee Dugard after her long time in captivity, without first consulting with Dugard’s family or nonprofit foundation. Nancy Seltzer, […]
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By Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times Over the last few months, Gov. Jerry Brown and legislators have reached major deals to increase taxes on healthcare plans and boost the state’s minimum wage. But as Brown prepares to release his revised budget on Friday, one big issue appears to be far from a resolution: California’s shoddy roads. […]
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By Kathryn Reed Lake Tahoe Unified School District officials are scratching their heads when it comes South Tahoe High School being put on a two-year probation by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges. The school board on May 10 received notification from STHS Principal Chad Houck. Houck got word from the WASC in late […]
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By Michelle Rindels, AP An effort to repeal the state’s new commerce tax suffered a likely fatal setback on Wednesday after the Nevada Supreme Court ruled a petition that’s been circulating for several months isn’t fit for the ballot. Justices said in their order that the summary of the measure’s effect, which appears on the […]
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By Cy Ryan, Las Vegas Sun CARSON CITY — Nevada’s welcome signs that have greeted highway motorists at state-border entry points for about two decades are set for a makeover. State officials have selected four sign designs by Nevada high school students to be finalists for consideration. None of the finalist designs features symbols of […]
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By Associated Press Nevada is renewing its efforts to attract Chinese tourists after shutting down a Beijing tourism office it operated for a decade. The state Board of Examiners approved a $396,000, two-year contract on Tuesday with East West Marketing Corp. The company has offices in China and Los Angeles and will develop and maintain […]
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By Kathryn Reed Twenty-four students with seizures, nine with Type 1 diabetes, two with Type 2, 112 with asthma, 21 with cardiac conditions, 136 with food allergies and of those 45 require epi-pens. Those are some of the issues nurses in Lake Tahoe Unified School District are dealing with on a daily basis. They handle […]
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By Lena H. Sun, Washington Post Nearly a third of antibiotics prescribed in doctors’ offices, emergency rooms and hospital-based clinics in the United States are not needed, according to the most in-depth study yet to examine the use and misuse of these life-saving drugs. The finding, which has implications for antibiotics’ diminished efficacy, translates to about 47 […]
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By Daniel Rothberg, Las Vegas Sun One Nevada company was mentioned in a federal indictment of FIFA officials. At least 10 Nevada-registered firms were owned by one of Thailand’s wealthiest families, and dozens more have ties to a corruption probe in Brazil, a USA Today analysis revealed last month. They represent a sliver of the […]
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By Joan Lowy, AP Six states, including Nevada, that allow marijuana use legal tests to determine driving while impaired by the drug that have no scientific basis, according to a study by the nation’s largest automobile club that calls for scrapping those laws. The study commissioned by AAA’s safety foundation said it’s not possible to […]
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