By Victoria Colliver, San Francisco Chronicle Two-thirds of Californians who were uninsured before the Affordable Care Act went into effect now have health coverage, according to a study released Thursday. The nonpartisan Kaiser Family Foundation has followed more than 1,100 Californians who lacked health insurance as of September 2013 through the first two coverage enrollment […]
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By J.D. Morris, Las Vegas Sun More than six months after a major division of Caesars Entertainment Corp. filed for bankruptcy, it’s still unclear exactly how the company will emerge on the other side. Caesars wants a Chicago bankruptcy court to approve a restructuring plan that could shed around $10 billion in debt from the […]
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By Sudhin Thanawala, AP SAN FRANCISCO — CVS Health Corp. deliberately overcharged some pharmacy customers for generic drugs by submitting claims to their insurance companies at inflated prices, according to a lawsuit filed last week in federal court in San Francisco. The suit says those inflated prices led to higher co-pays for customers that exceeded […]
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By Associated Press California is launching a website that lets residents tattle on water wasters, from neighbors with leaky sprinklers to waiters who serve water without asking. California has multiple restrictions on water use, including banning washing cars with hoses that don’t shut off and restricting lawn-watering within two days of rainfall. But enforcement varies […]
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The Nevada Division of Forestry is warning people to keep drones on the ground during a fire so firefighters can better do their job. “If they fly, we can’t,” Nevada Firewarden Bob Roper said in a statement. “It’s a major risk to pilots, ground personnel and aircraft. There may also be civil and/or criminal consequences […]
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By Daniel Rothberg, Las Vegas Sun NASA could soon be testing drones in Nevada airspace. As one of six designated drone test sites, the State of Nevada is in the process of securing a contract to host the agency while it researches unmanned aerial vehicles. Tom Wilczek, who works with the aerospace and defense industries […]
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By Avaneesh Pandey, International Business Times California — currently facing one of the worst droughts on record — has accumulated a rainfall “deficit” of about 20 inches since 2012, according to a new NASA study. In other words, the difference between actual rainfall in the state and the rainfall expected on average is now equivalent to […]
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By Teri Sforza, Orange County Register Within the span of only 11 years, the hole at the bottom of California’s state and local pension funds increased a staggering 3,046 percent. The monstrous growth of the gap between what public agencies have promised workers upon retirement and what they actually have – from $6.3 billion in […]
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By Gloria Dickie, High Country News USA Today earlier this week reported that U.S. wildfires were approaching “record levels.” The article pointed at the more than 5.5 million acres burned so far this season — second only to the summer in 2011, when just more than 6 million acres had burned by the end of July. […]
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A Coast Guard crew from the Tahoe City station was alerted about 9:45pm July 29 that three people were missing on Lake Tahoe. The 31-year-old woman and her two kids were found near Meeks Bay on a raft that was quickly losing air, according to authorities. Calstar used its radar to find the three, and […]
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