By Associated Press Nevada casinos collected almost 3 percent more revenue in fiscal 2015 than a year earlier, but logged an overall loss in income for a seventh straight year, according to state Gaming Control Board data released Thursday. The $24.6 billion that casinos statewide collected in gambling and non-gambling revenues in the 12 months […]
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Placer County Board of Supervisors this week voted to enact a placeholder ordinance asserting the county’s authority medical marijuana sales and cultivation. This comes on the heels of December’s decision to move forward with regulating medical marijuana in unincorporated areas of the county. At that time staff was directed to develop comprehensive regulations for their consideration. The […]
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By John Myers , Melanie Mason and Christine Mai-Duc, Los Angeles Times By now, it could easily be called Gov. Jerry Brown’s budget doctrine — an insistence on only modest expansions in state services but liberal payments for one-time expenses and accumulated government debt. In his new $170.7-billion budget proposal to legislators, Brown is again staying consistent […]
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By Katherine Shaver, Washington Post U.S. electric utilities are battling a bushy-tailed, nut-loving menace that has wreaked havoc on far more Christmas tree lights, TVs and cellphone chargers than any terrorist plotting against the power grid. That’s right. Beware the squirrel. Even as utilities have spent millions on “wildlife protection,” squirrels routinely outsmart plastic animal […]
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By Associated Press U .S. weather officials say December’s wild El Niño pushed 2015 to near-record levels for heat, moisture and downright extreme conditions. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced Thursday that last year was the second warmest and third wettest in 121 years of record keeping for the lower 48 states. The 54.4-degree […]
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By Trevon Milliard, Reno Gazette-Journal After years of floundering near the bottom in a widely watched report card for state education systems, Nevada has sunk to dead last. For the first time, the Silver State fell behind all other states and Washington, D.C., in the annual Quality Counts report, which assigns overall scores to states based […]
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Updated Jan. 8, 6:40pm: By Alexei Koseff, Sacramento Bee Now tallying 20 counties among their ranks, supporters of the movement to carve an independent “State of Jefferson” out of Northern California plan to introduce a bill this session seeking sovereignty. Organizers on Wednesday turned in declarations for 15 counties, including Sutter, Nevada and El Dorado, […]
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By Riley McDermid, San Francisco Business Times A new Nevada state tax that could cost the promoters of popular festival Burning Man an extra $3 million a year and cause ticket prices to rise is being appealed by promoters. Promoters from the Burning Man Projects have said the increase could cause tickets prices to spike as […]
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By Matthew Perrone, AP WASHINGTON — A bold federal effort to curb prescribing of painkillers may be faltering amid stiff resistance from drugmakers, industry-funded groups and, now, even other public health officials. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention was on track to finalize new prescribing guidelines for opioid painkillers this month. The guidelines — […]
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El Dorado County Board of Supervisors on Jan. 5 unanimously agreed to spend up to $150,000 from the county’s self-insurance fund to defend how the county collects mitigation fees. Thomas and Helen Austin of El Dorado Hills in December filed a lawsuit against the county regarding building permit fees. The couple in court documents believe […]
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