By J.D. Morris, Las Vegas Sun Ultimate Gaming, one of Nevada’s three legal online poker providers, announced last week that it’s ending operations in the state. The move comes about two months after Ultimate Gaming withdrew from New Jersey. In a news release, the company referenced some of the online gaming industry’s overall struggles as reasons […]
Read more
By Edward Wyatt, New York Times WASHINGTON — With a goal of fiber-optic lines reaching to every school and a Wi-Fi connection in every classroom, Tom Wheeler, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, is expected on Monday to propose a 62 percent increase in the amount of money the agency spends annually to wire schools […]
Read more
By Kathryn Reed Thinning the forest and controlled burns are never going away. Those were two of the messages that were delivered by fire officials last week during an open house at the Forest Supervisors office in South Lake Tahoe. The Tahoe Fire and Fuels Team has been created to put out a coordinated message […]
Read more
By Christopher Cadelago, Sacramento Bee When all the ballots are finally tallied from this month’s election, the proportion of Californians voting by mail is expected to break the record set in 2012, the first time more than half of the state’s electorate voted absentee. The uptick has more Californians pushing for the state to go […]
Read more
By Ken Ritter, AP LAS VEGAS – A federal appeals court should reject a request by the Coalition for the Protection of Marriage for a full-court rehearing of a landmark decision allowing gay marriage in Nevada, the state’s governor and an advocacy group representing eight same-sex couples said. In strongly worded filings submitted on a […]
Read more
By Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times Experimental mice have been telling us this for years, but pot-smoking humans didn’t want to believe it could happen to them: Compared with a person who never smoked marijuana, someone who uses marijuana regularly has, on average, less gray matter in his orbital frontal cortex, a region that is […]
Read more
Eleven miles of Highway 28 will be getting about $24 million worth of improvements. Washoe County commissioners on Nov. 12 approved a $12.5 million Federal Lands Access Program agreement for the corridor from Incline Village to the Highway 50 junction. The funding will be targeted toward safety advances, expanded transportation options, an enhanced visitor experience, increased economic […]
Read more
By Melissa Siig, Moonshine Ink The struggle between Squaw Valley Ski Holdings and Incorporate Olympic Valley over the future of the valley may be playing out publicly in newspaper ads and editorial pages, but behind the scenes another battle is brewing — one that involves hundreds of thousands of dollars, multiple attorneys and consultants, and a […]
Read more
By Marc Lifsher, Los Angeles Times A decade ago, many of California’s public pension plans had plenty of money to pay for workers’ retirements. All that has changed, according to a far-reaching package of data from the state controller. Taxpayers are now on the hook for billions of dollars more to cover the future retirements […]
Read more
By Betty Martin, Calaveras Enterprise Despite numerous pleas from residents to postpone the vote, David Eggerton is the new general manager at the Calaveras County Water District. Directors approved the move on a 3-0-2 vote at Wednesday’s board meeting, which saw Director Jeff Davidson and Don Stump away on vacation. The controversial vote drew particular […]
Read more