By Todd Shields, Bloomberg President Obama called for the “strongest possible rules” to protect the open Internet, advocating stricter controls than a regulator he appointed and causing shares of Comcast Corp. and other broadband providers to drop. “I am asking for an explicit ban on paid prioritization,” Obama said today in a statement, referring to […]
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By Danielle McCreaTuesday, Las Vegas Sun With state approval recently of dozens of medical marijuana licenses, a native Nevadan with two decades in the gaming industry is laying the groundwork for the new industry’s next steps. Heidi Cook, managing partner of Regulated Employee Resources, is creating an education program to ensure businesses keep up with state […]
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By Jacob Adelman, Bloomberg Oceanographers have detected isotopes linked to Japan’s wrecked Fukushima nuclear plant off California’s coast, though at levels far below those that could pose a measurable health risk. Volunteer ocean monitors collected the samples that tested positive for trace amounts of the isotope cesium-134 about 100 miles west of Eureka, the Massachusetts-based […]
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By Kathryn Reed Wesley Shira had a bedroll, some other belongings and his dog to keep him warm last night. The expected low in South Lake Tahoe was 30 degrees. He called it camping. Others would call it being homeless. “In this town it’s really hard to come up with any kind of long-term solution […]
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By Gamaliel Ortiz, KCRA-TV The mysteries behind the meteorites that rained over California’s gold country in 2012 are becoming a little clearer. NASA researchers found diamonds and other treasures that provide new insight into the early workings of the solar system. The nanodiamonds, however, are too small to sparkle in a ring. Along with the […]
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A hush fell over the crowd as each speaker expressed the importance of Veterans Day. Nearly 90 people attended the South Lake Tahoe ceremony at the American Legion. Patty Smith, whose son died in the Iraq war, spoke of how she took freedoms for granted before Timmy died. She apologized for having done so. Mayor […]
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By Scott Sonner, AP RENO — The Nevada Supreme Court has rejected the appeal of a longtime Lake Tahoe lawyer who’s been trying for a decade to gain public access to private beaches on the lake’s tony North Shore. The high court on Monday upheld an earlier Washoe District Court ruling that the Incline Village General […]
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By Adam Liptak, New York Times WASHINGTON — When a three-judge panel of the federal appeals court in California struck down bans last month on same-sex marriage in Idaho and Nevada, it was no surprise. The panel included two of the court’s leading liberals. A group opposing same-sex marriage said the composition of the panel […]
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By Barbara Barte Osborn, Sacramento Bee Two Sacramento residents were arrested Saturday near Truckee after a report that a vehicle’s passenger had discharged a firearm from his window as they entered westbound Interstate 80 from Hirschdale Road. The search for the vehicle, a late-model Chevrolet Impala, began when a citizen flagged down a Truckee California […]
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By Cathy Locke, Sacramento Bee Seeking to add momentum to a decade-long push for hotel development in Placerville, the City Council on Tuesday will consider soliciting proposals from consultants to perform a hotel feasibility study. The city over the years has studied and approved three sites for hotel development. Construction began on one site at […]
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