By Associated Press High school math teacher Bill Davis watched from his home as smoke mounted from one of the most destructive fires in California in recent memory. From a previous fire in late July, he knew to expect a recorded call on his cellphone or look for someone coming through the neighborhood with a […]
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By Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle Former Govs. Pete Wilson and Arnold Schwarzenegger and constitutional scholar Laurence Tribe joined the legal attack on California’s teacher tenure laws, telling a state appeals court the job-security and seniority statutes leave some of the state’s neediest students in the hands of incompetent teachers. It is “nearly impossible to […]
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Beth Gaines, who represents part of Tahoe in the California Assembly, made it official Friday that she will be running for the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors. Gaines, who now lives in El Dorado Hills, will seek the seat currently occupied by Ron Mikulaco. The election is next year. Term limits will force her […]
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By Daniel Rothberg, Las Vegas Sun Eighteen months after its creation, Nevada’s drone test site is finally gaining momentum. After the Federal Aviation Administration broadened the state’s authority earlier this year, the site conducted more flights in one week than it had in all months prior. It now has a NASA contract and a service […]
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By Sean Whaley, Las Vegas Review-Journal CARSON CITY — Attorney General Adam Laxalt announced Thursday that he has retained a nationally recognized law firm to help defend against the ACLU legal challenge to the state’s new Education Savings Account program. The firm Bancroft PLLC will provide the attorney general’s office with legal strategy and analysis on […]
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By Tom Randall Brian K Sullivan, Bloomberg This is what global warming feels like. Last month was the hottest August on record, topping out the hottest summer on record, according to data released on Thursday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. It was the sixth month this year to set a new record: February, March, May, June, […]
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By J.D. Morris, Las Vegas Sun Nevada regulators on Thursday approved a $1.5 million state fine against Caesars Entertainment Corp. because of lapses in the company’s anti-money-laundering efforts. The Treasury Department’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, also known as FinCen, announced last week that Caesars would be fined an $8 million federal penalty for failing to […]
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By Frank Shyong, Hailey Branson-Potts and Paige St. John, Los Angeles Times As firefighters continued to make progress on two deadly wildfires in Northern California, there was mourning for those who could not outrun the flames and were killed. Citing the five deaths in the Lake and Butte fires, officials urged people to heed evacuation […]
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By J.D. Morris, Las Vegas Sun Nevada’s foray into skill-based slot machines took a big step forward today when state regulators gave final approval to the rules that will govern the new games. The Nevada Gaming Commission unanimously approved a set of regulations previously crafted by the Gaming Control Board over the course of multiple […]
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By Eli Segall, Las Vegas Sun For the first time in almost a year, Nevada is back on top of America’s foreclosure heap as lenders repossess a rising number of homes. One in every 507 homes statewide received a foreclosure-related filing last month, up 16 percent from July and 4 percent from August 2014, according […]
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