By Hugo Martin, Los Angeles Times “The Flying Tomato” has gone from carving the slopes to owning them. Olympic gold medal snowboarder Shaun White has taken a minority stake in the company that runs Mammoth Mountain and recently spent $38 million to buy Snow Summit and Bear Mountain, the Southern California resorts where he perfected […]
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By Kurtis Ming, CBS-13 Jumping at the state’s water rebate program, Alvin Somers ripped out his lawn, and put in drought resistant plants and woodchips. California’s Save our Water program rewarded him with a check for $1,300. “The idea was terrific,” Somers said. The state offered rebates of up to $2,000 to put in drought […]
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By Scott Sonner, AP RENO — A federal judge has refused to grant a new trial for a Nevada trucking company ordered to pay more than $4.5 million in damages to Amtrak after a truck slammed into a passenger train at a rural highway crossing in 2011, killing six people. Conductor Laurette Lee, 68, of […]
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By Ian Whitakern, Las Vegas Sun It’s National School Choice Week, which seems like an appropriate time to take stock of how the school choice movement is doing in Nevada. In two words: Pretty good. School choice activists, buoyed by local conservative advocacy groups like the Nevada Policy Research Institute, have been particularly muscular in […]
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By Anne Knowles GARDNERVILLE — Douglas County is revising its ordinance for solar facilities after two large-scale projects failed to gain approval last year amidst public protest. County officials this week wrapped up a series of 10 meetings with participants from the county’s towns and general improvement districts as well as business associations including the […]
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By Nick Wing, Huffington Post A Department of Justice watchdog officially condemned the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration this month, following a report that the agency had recruited a Transportation Security Administration security screener to search bags for cash that the DEA could confiscate. The very existence of such a partnership highlights much broader concerns about the […]
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A young girl on a school trip to Sierra-at-Tahoe fell from the Grandview chairlift on Wednesday morning. The skier was taken by ambulance to Barton Memorial Hospital after the 11:30am incident on Jan. 27. “From everything we understood she is in good health,” Steve Hemphill, spokesman for the resort, told Lake Tahoe News. He did […]
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By Veronica Rocha, Los Angeles Times California’s current snowpack is the deepest it has been in five years — a modest, yet encouraging milestone in a period of prolonged drought. Readings of the Sierra Nevada snowpack on Tuesday showed water content statewide was 18.7 inches, or 115% of the historical average for that date, according […]
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By Kathryn Reed Norma Santiago and Ron Briggs, the former El Dorado County supervisors who think they should have been paid more when they were in office, could not reach an agreement this week with their former employer. The Board of Supervisors in closed session on Jan. 26 turned down their settlement offer. The former […]
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By Megan Messerly, Las Vegas Sun Advocates of gun control raked in $3.6 million over the last two years to place an initiative to tighten background checks for gun purchases and transfers in Nevada on the November ballot and ensure it passes. The initiative is part of a broader national push to establish universal background […]
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