By Ian Whitaker, Las Vegas Sun Las Vegas Review-Journal columnist John L. Smith announced his resignation Tuesday, days after the newspaper’s new editor said publicly that Smith had been barred from writing about the R-J‘s new owner, Sheldon Adelson. On Saturday, editor Keith Moyer told a meeting of the Society of Professional Journalists at UNLV […]
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A 22-year-old Truckee man was arrested early Wednesday on a felony weapons charge. Officers got a call early April 27 from someone who said there was a suspicious person in the doorway of a building in the Gateway area of Truckee. Officers said they found Mitchell Hunt, 22, a large hunting knife concealed inside his jacket. An […]
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By Scott Sonner, AP RENO – Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval is considering legal action to force the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to pony up some money to pay for roundups of wild horses in the state that have been put on hold because of federal budgetary constraints. BLM State Director John Ruhs asked agency […]
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A severe thunderstorm warning has been issued for the West Slope of El Dorado County and part of Amador County through 4:15pm April 27. The National Weather Service in Sacramento says the storm could produce quarter-size hail and damaging winds in excess of 60 mph. Funnel clouds may be possible with this storm. Deadly lightning […]
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Improvements to Highway 28 near Incline Village are designed to have multiple benefits – get cyclists and pedestrians off the road, add parking, make it safer for motorists, and improve Lake Tahoe’s clarity. It all started as a bike path. Construction of the three-plus mile shared-use path from the south end of Incline Village to […]
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By Nathan Halverson, Reveal If the rest of the world ate like Americans, the planet would have run out of freshwater 15 years ago, according to the world’s largest food company. In private, Nestle executives told U.S. officials that the world is on a collision course with doom because Americans eat too much meat, and […]
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By Associated Press Authorities in Northern California are looking for information in a 35-year-old case involving a woman’s disappearance and death. The El Dorado County District Attorney’s Office says 28-year-old Debney Lynn Lobanoff was last seen by her husband in December 1981 in their Placerville home. Authorities say they were having marital troubles and her husband […]
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By Scott Sonner, AP GARDNERVILLE — Residents of a rural Northern Nevada town are volunteering in the first public-private partnership of its kind providing water for wild horses on the range and shooting the mares with contraceptive darts to help shrink the size of the herd. Leaders of the Pine Nut Wild Horse Advocates in […]
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By Kathryn Reed Millennials are not something to be feared, laughed at or ignored. They are merely the next generation. These 18- to 34-year-olds are here and they aren’t going anywhere. What they are doing, though, is changing how those in the tourism industry think. And if people aren’t changing their thinking, they are bound […]
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By Lindsay Holmes and Anna Almendrala, Huffington Post If you need any more proof that mental health disorders are a public health issue, look no further than rising suicide rates over the last decade and a half. Deaths from suicide have increased 24 percent from 1999 to 2014, according to an analysis of Americans aged […]
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