By Paul Elias, AP SAN FRANCISCO — Crystal Patterson didn’t have the cash or assets to post $150,000 bail and get out of jail after her arrest for assault in October. So Patterson, 39, promised to pay a bail bonds company $15,000 plus interest to put up the $150,000 bail for her, allowing to go […]
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By Nathan Halverson, Reveal If the Paris climate pact is going to succeed at staving off climate change disaster, the 195 participating countries will need to achieve a difficult feat – trust. Yet the U.S. government already is failing to implement its own rules on tracking emissions. It is not collecting emission reports from one […]
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By Charles Kenny, Atlantic From Paris to Syria through San Bernardino to Afghanistan, the world witnessed obscene and unsufferable tragedy in 2015. That was on top of the ongoing misery of hundreds of millions who are literally stunted by poverty, living lives shortened by preventable disease and malnutrition. But for all of that, 2015 also […]
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San Francisco-based hotel chain Joie de Vivre has taken over Park 968 in South Lake Tahoe. With the addition of Park 968 and Monterey Tides, Joie de Vivre now operates 22 hotels in California. The boutique hotel chain also has properties in Chicago, Miami, Scottsdale and Washington, D.C., and soon will be in New Orleans […]
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By Christopher Ingraham and Carolyn Y. Johnson, Washington Post For the first time on record, Americans are as likely to die by a gunshot as in a traffic accident, according to federal data. Gun deaths now outnumber vehicle deaths in 21 states and the District of Columbia. That was true in just two states a […]
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By Gerry Smith, BloombergNews While facing a growing number of consumers who drop pay-TV for cheaper online alternatives, Time Warner Cable Inc., Comcast Corp., Dish Network Corp. and AT&T Inc. are all planning to increase their prices early next year — at the risk of turning off more subscribers fed up with the rising cost […]
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The Tahoe Transportation District board of directors approved an eight-year vision to complete a transportation system connecting communities around the lake as well as with Truckee. Goals include completing the Fanny Bridge project in Tahoe City, the loop road on the South Shore and a ferry that would take people between the south and north […]
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By Don Thompson, AP The California state Senate is giving all its employees pay raises just one year after laying off several dozen employees due to financial problems, according to a memo obtained by the Associated Press. The raises for about 1,000 employees are possible because of last year’s “prudent and necessary cuts,” according to […]
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By JoAnn Kittrell Early Nevada miners historically used charcoal as a fuel source to smelt less valuable ore to extract silver and gold. Located near mining districts throughout the state, charcoal ovens were utilized to optimize the charcoal conversion process. With the Ward charcoal ovens just south of Ely, 35 cords of wood were loaded […]
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By Neal Morton, Las Vegas Review-Journal The state’s top education and political leaders soon will start exploring ways to expand Nevada’s new education savings accounts, which many already consider to be the most aggressive school choice program in the country. At a hearing Monday, the state treasurer’s office adopted regulations that extend early eligibility for the […]
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