A sewer line on Osgood Avenue that serves the Ski Run Center and Chevy’s in South Lake Tahoe has failed, requiring the South Tahoe Public Utility District board to make an emergency declaration. This will speed up the process to fix the problem because the formal bidding procedure can be scrapped. About 400 feet of […]
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By Lisa Leff, AP SAN FRANCISCO — The likelihood that California voters will be asked to legalize recreational marijuana next year is prompting lawmakers to make a serious run at reining in the state’s vast medical marijuana industry — a job they have deferred for nearly two decades. A pair of bills pending in the […]
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By Kyle Roerink, Las Vegas Sun Nevada negotiated an option to buy up to 2.5 million rounds of ammunition for state agencies over the next two years, according to documents and interviews with the Nevada Purchasing Division. State officials made 55 separate requests for ammunition for 9mm pistols, 12-gauge shotguns, semi-automatic rifles and other firearms […]
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By Rachel Swan and John Wildermuth, San Francisco Chronicle Filling car-shaking potholes and repairing crumbling highways and bridges shouldn’t be a partisan issue, Gov. Jerry Brown said. Joined by Assembly Speaker Toni Atkins, D-San Diego, Brown used a news conference last week at the Port of Oakland to urge the Legislature’s Republicans and Democrats to […]
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By Kathryn Reed ROUND HILL – Lake Tahoe’s congressional delegation wants the feds to spend more money in the basin. But they are divided on how much and where to spend it. Money, forest health, lake clarity and transportation were the key subjects during the 19th annual Lake Tahoe Environmental Summit at Round Hill Pines […]
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By Kathryn Reed Jeremy Meyers, El Dorado County superintendent of schools, was booked at the El Dorado County jail in Placerville on Aug. 22 on driving under the influence charges stemming from an incident in June. This was a condition of having pleaded no contest to the charges, which is the same as a guilty […]
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By Keith Rogers, Las Vegas Review-Journal With thieves stealing radioactive sources in Mexico while other potent materials sat idle on a mountain in Alaska, U.S. nuclear security experts used military cargo jets this summer to whisk away some of North America’s most dangerous “dirty bomb” threats. Thirteen highly radioactive sources were loaded on Air Force C-17 […]
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By Alison Vekshin, BloombergBusiness The California Public Employees’ Retirement System, the largest pension in the U.S., said it earned 2.4 percent last fiscal year, below its target rate as financial-market turbulence depressed stock and bond returns. The $300 billion fund earned 1 percent on public-equity holdings and 1.3 percent in fixed-income investments, said Ted Eliopoulos, […]
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By David Siers, Sacramento Bee Gov. Jerry Brown said in an interview aired Sunday that California is not aggressive enough policing use of the state’s groundwater, promising stepped-up oversight in future years. Brown’s remarks on NBC’s “Meet the Press” followed the release of a study tying climate change to the worsening effects of California’s drought. […]
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By Howard Stutz, Las Vegas Review-Journal Caesars Entertainment Corp. said late Friday it reached agreement with its largest lender group over the restructuring of the company’s bankrupt operating division. In a statement, Caesars said the agreement allows the company to focus on gaining support from the last major debt holder group that has yet to agree […]
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