By Sandra Chereb, Las Vegas Review-Journal CARSON CITY — Everyone and every living thing needs water. The challenge in Nevada is how best to prepare and share when Mother Nature turns off the taps. An unprecedented statewide discussion in late September about drought and water rights in Nevada could signal a looming showdown in the 2017 […]
Read more
By Amy Harder, Wall Street Journal WASHINGTON—Environmental regulators significantly lowered a national limit for a smog-causing pollutant Thursday, in an attempted compromise that left some businesses relieved and environmental and health leaders upset the initiative wasn’t stronger. The Environmental Protection Agency set a limit of 70 parts per billion for ground-level ozone, which is created […]
Read more
By Kathryn Reed Douglas County commissioners will be faced with three tax related issues at a special meeting next week. Sales and excise fuel taxes are likely to increase as well as the fee various utility companies pay. The county believes these tax increases will allow it to pursue state and federal dollars for projects […]
Read more
By Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times The United States is, by a long shot, the global leader in mass shootings, claiming just 5 percent of the global population but an outsized share — 31 percent — of the world’s mass shooters since 1966, a new study finds. The Philippines, Russia, Yemen and France — all […]
Read more
By Michelle Rindels, AP CARSON CITY — A Carson City judge tossed out a petition Thursday that seeks a ballot question repealing the entire $1.1 billion tax package that Nevada lawmakers passed this spring. Judge James Todd Russell dismissed the measure brought forth by Las Vegas anti-tax activist Chuck Muth, who did not show up […]
Read more
By Sharon Bernstein, Reuters A plan to ask voters to repeal a new California law tightening vaccination requirements for school-age children may falter due to a shortfall in signatures needed to put the referendum on the ballot. The effort is part of a backlash against a bill signed into law this summer by Democratic Gov. […]
Read more
By Associated Press PLACERVILLE — A 16-year-old boy has been arrested in the killings of his father, the father’s fiance and their 7-year-old son, whose burned bodies were found in a cabin on the West Slope. El Dorado County Sheriff John D’Agostini said at a news conference that 16-year-old Nolan Buchanan was arrested at his […]
Read more
By Associated Press With all the questions surrounding the nation’s water supplies and systems, one thing seems certain: Customers will be paying more to keep their taps flowing. Rates have been shooting up nationwide in drought-stricken states and in cities trying to upgrade their aging infrastructure. Experts say the trend is sure to accelerate as […]
Read more
By Matt Stevens, Los Angeles Times Californians cut back their urban water use in August by 27 percent compared with the same month in 2013, state regulators announced Thursday. The reduction was slightly less than the 31 percent decline recorded in July, but on par with a 27 percent effort in June. It was also enough to […]
Read more
A South Lake Tahoe man was indicted today by a federal grand jury in the Vallejo kidnapping case that police officers there once called a hoax. Matthew D. Muller, 38, faces one count of kidnapping. Last month Muller pleaded no contest to charges stemming from an unrelated Dublin home invasion. He faces 11 years in prison for that […]
Read more