By Damon Beres, Huffington Post Your iPhone isn’t biodegradable. Of course, you know that. But what you might not understand is the massive problem that electronic waste represents for our planet. Arecent report from United Nations University in Japan declared that about 46 million tons of e-waste — discarded phones, computer screens, lamps, microwaves and […]
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By Jeff DeLong, Reno Gazette-Journal A former Nevada lawmaker who claims harassment by bear advocates at his Lake Tahoe home has filed a request for a protective order with Washoe County authorities. William O’Donnell, who served as a Republican state senator representing Las Vegas from 1987 to 2001 and previously as a state assemblyman, filed […]
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By Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle California’s sex-education law prohibits school districts from indoctrinating students on the need to remain celibate before marriage or teaching them that abstinence is the only safe way to prevent pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, a judge has ruled. The decision by Fresno County Superior Court Judge Donald Black applies […]
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Just as construction is about to begin on a 7.13 mile section of Ice House Road with a $4.4 million grant awarded last year, El Dorado County Community Development Agency has received notice of a potential second grant award of $6.75 million for phase two of the project. The second grant would continue the work […]
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By Jessica Calefati and Josh Richman, San Jose Mercury News SACRAMENTO– Gov. Jerry Brown released a revised state budget proposal Thursday that sinks billions in better-than-expected tax revenues into California’s public schools and some tax relief for the state’s poorest families. But it still didn’t satisfy Democratic lawmakers who want to mend the state’s shredded […]
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By Kathryn Reed It’s not just professional sports teams paying more attention to athletes with concussions. It’s a big deal in the Tahoe-Truckee area, too. One of the problems is there is no diagnostic tool for medical professionals to use to test if someone sustained a concussion or if they have fully recovered. That is […]
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By Amber Phillips, Las Vegas Sun WASHINGTON — Sen. Harry Reid is receptive of Sheldon Adelson’s push to ban all forms of online gambling, including poker. Reid said in an interview Monday that if he isn’t able to get an exemption for poker from a proposed ban of online gaming making its way through Congress, […]
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By Kyle Roerink, Las Vegas Sun CARSON CITY — In an opinion expected to be widely disputed by both consumer groups and advocates of competitive energy marketplaces, the Nevada Public Utilities Commission’s legal staff has ruled that a major digital technology company must pay $27 million to cut its ties with NV Energy and produce […]
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A juvenile is in police custody after allegedly starting a series of fires in Truckee. Truckee and CalFire firefighters responded to and quickly extinguished a series of what they said were intentionally set fires in the vegetation behind homes in the Tahoe Donner subdivision on May 13. “This is a reminder of the importance of […]
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Lake Tahoe Community College and South Tahoe Middle School were on lockdown briefly Wednesday afternoon because someone reported hearing shots being fired in the meadow by the college. “Within about 30 minutes we had sufficiently searched the area to realize there was no imminent threat to anyone so the all clear was given,” Police Chief […]
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