By Jason Hidalgo, Reno Gazette-Journal Many U.S. residents are apparently considering a move to Nevada to be, well, a nice move. A survey by national moving company United Van Lines found that the Silver State is the second most popular destination in the Western United States for folks moving to a new area. Only Oregon […]
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A 65-year-old Stockton man was arrested Monday near Truckee on attempted murder charges. Harris Riddle allegedly fired several shots from a 9mm pistol into a vehicle parked near the Donner Lake Vista Point. One bullet struck a woman in the leg. California Highway Patrol troopers made the arrest about 3pm Jan. 11. The vehicle was parked on westbound Interstate […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – “The threat of climate change is not from what we have done in the past, but what we do in the future.” Those are the words of Ken Caldeira, the keynote speaker at last week’s annual Operation Sierra Storm conference, a gathering of television meteorologists hosted by Lake Tahoe Visitors […]
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By Associated Press A district judge has put Nevada’s sweeping school choice program on hold just weeks before money was expected to flow to parents for private school tuition. Carson City District Court Judge James Wilson granted a preliminary injunction Monday that orders the state treasurer to stop implementing Nevada’s new education savings accounts pending […]
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By Lisa Leff, AP Soaring tax revenues have carried per-pupil education spending in California beyond where it stood before the recession, but even the record sum proposed by Gov. Jerry Brown is unlikely to reverse the state’s standing as a comparative miser when it comes to investing in public schools, advocates and education officials said. […]
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By Loretta Kalb, Sacramento Bee El Dorado County is on the hunt for a four-year college that will open a campus within the rural county, hoping to give students an opportunity they now can only find elsewhere. A four-year campus would benefit students and the community, backers said, reducing the time students often spend commuting […]
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By Mike Wolterbeek When the Federal Highway Administration needed to update it’s crucial and complicated 30-year-old formula for fuel consumption and vehicle operating cost predictions, it awarded the project to UNR’s renowned Pavements/Materials Program. The results of the study will give federal highway managers more accurate data as they seek to improve the nation’s transportation […]
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What originally was expected to be a decent storm headed to Tahoe has broken apart. Forecasters from the National Weather Service in Reno are now saying the system headed to the greater Lake Tahoe area “will brush to the north of the area on Monday and Tuesday with little to no precipitation for the Sierra […]
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By Kathryn Reed A proposed 17 percent rate increase by Liberty Utilities generated little interest from the public in the way of giving feedback to the California Public Utilities Commission. The commissioners, who are responsible for granting or declining the hike, conducted four hearings last week – two in Kings Beach and two in […]
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By Kevin Freking, AP WASHINGTON — Under President Dwight D. Eisehower, the nation prepared for the 50th birthday of the National Park Service with a spending splurge that refurbished Independence Hall in Philadelphia and helped complete the Gateway Arch in St. Louis and the 469-mile Blue Ridge Parkway. This year, the world-famous system turns 100 and […]
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