By Sarah Skidmore Sell, AP Wondering how you will fare financially in 2016? Below are what experts think next year will hold for financial matters close to home: Raises, rent, gas, food and health. Will you get a raise in 2016? Maybe. Wage growth has been perhaps the job market’s biggest weakness since the recession […]
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By Howard Mintz, San Jose Mercury News SAN QUENTIN — A dozen years ago, state prison officials opened up this infamous death row for a tour to demonstrate the crumbling, overcrowded cells housing the 600 killers then awaiting execution. Puddles of water sat on the cold, dank floors, as California leaders worried that the nation’s […]
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By Don Thompson, AP SACRAMENTO — Amid the most destructive wildfire season in more than a decade, California’s firefighting agency amped up its warnings to thousands of property owners who weren’t doing enough to protect their homes by clearing brush and other flammable materials. But it rarely put any muscle behind the threats: Violators were […]
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South Lake Tahoe Police Department is reporting fewer arrests this New Year’s period compared to a year ago. No arrests were made in the state line area. From 12:01am Dec. 31 to noon Jan. 1, officers made nine arrests throughout the city. There were 17 arrests during this same time period last year. Consistent with prior years, the majority of […]
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By Scott Smith, AP A canal that delivers vital water supplies from Northern California to Southern California is sinking in places. So are stretches of a riverbed undergoing historic restoration. On farms, well casings pop up like mushrooms as the ground around them drops. Four years of drought and heavy reliance on pumping of groundwater […]
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By Kristen Wyatt, AP DENVER — Snoop Dogg has his own line of marijuana. So does Willie Nelson. Melissa Etheridge has a marijuana-infused wine. As the fast-growing marijuana industry emerges from the black market and starts looking like a mainstream industry, there’s a scramble to brand and trademark pot products. The celebrity endorsements are just […]
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By Jacob Pramuk, CNBC States should take action to regulate drones when federal rules fail to address their concerns, one California lawmaker said this week. Last week, the Federal Aviation Administration opened its consumer drone registry to keep track of the devices amid some potentially hazardous flights. While the agency has previously set other guidelines […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – For those who came to the South Shore to party in the streets, the experience may have been a bit anticlimactic on New Year’s Eve. It took coaxing from less than a handful of instigators to get the crowds that had been pouring out of the Stateline casinos into the […]
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By Mike Wolterbeek More than 17,500 earthquakes were recorded in 2015 by the UNR’s Nevada Seismological Laboratory. That includes the 231 recent quakes in south Reno and the magnitude 4.8 in Caliente that shook Las Vegas in January. “While the Reno shaking is fresh in our minds, what’s really bumping the number up from the […]
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By Jason Blevins, Denver Post The U.S. Forest Service will not require ski resorts to transfer water rights to the federal government as a condition of operating on public land. Instead, the agency will require ski areas to prove there is enough water to sustain skiing for the future. In 2011, the Forest Service, which oversees […]
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