By Cy Ryan, Las Vegas Sun CARSON CITY — A total of 174 applications were submitted by Monday’s deadline to operate 76 medical marijuana dispensaries in Nevada, the state Division of Public and Behavioral Health reported. Of those, 140 came from Clark County, where the law allows 40 dispensaries. Those submitting applications for licenses had […]
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By Kathryn Reed The Angora Fire of 2007 taught South Lake Tahoe officials a lot of things. But much of what needed to be improved was not implemented until this year. And those changes are about to be tested. On Monday, a C130 airplane from the National Guard will be on the tarmac as though […]
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By Jon Ortiz, Sacramento Bee A divided CalPERS board on Tuesday approved a regulation that will allow nearly 100 different types of supplemental pay to count toward pension calculations for state and local government employees. The 7-5 vote drew a swift rebuke from Gov. Jerry Brown, who signed pension overhaul legislation in 2012 that, in […]
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By Kat Kerlin, UC Davis California has allocated five times more surface water than the state actually has, making it hard for regulators to tell whose supplies should be cut during a drought, UC researchers reported. The scientists said California’s water-rights regulator, the State Water Resources Control Board, needs a systematic overhaul of policies and […]
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Douglas County sheriff’s investigators are still not able to positively identify the human remains that were found in June near the top of Spooner Summit. Results of DNA tests are pending. That could take another 12 to 16 weeks. The cause of death is also still under investigaton. The remains were located approximately 300 yards […]
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By Jesse Paul, Denver Post The Western Governors’ Association in a letter last week urged U.S. Senate and congressional leadership, and President Obama, to increase federal wildfire budgets so agencies can stop using fire prevention funds for fire suppression. The association said the U.S. Forest Service is again on pace to utilize prevention funds for […]
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By Max Ehrenfreund, Washington Post Since Michael Brown’s death in Ferguson, Mo. on Aug. 9, police have shot and killed people who were apparently unarmed in Los Angeles; San Jose; Victorville; and South Salt Lake, Utah. For two days, police in New Orleans did not make public the fact that an officer had shot a […]
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By Tom Randall, Bloomberg If you live in California, Australia or Scandinavia, 2014 may feel like the hottest year on record. Not quite; on a global scale, it’s “only” third-hottest. The global average surface temperature for January through July was 1.2 degrees Fahrenheit (0.66 degrees Celsius) above the 20th century average, tying with 2002 as […]
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By Kathryn Reed CAMP RICHARDSON – Now in its 18th year, the Lake Tahoe Environmental Summit is the place for politicians and others to tout how much they care about the basin, what they’ve done to make it great and what they want to do for the future. Since the first summit, $1.74 billion has […]
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By Landon Miller, KTVN-TV It is normal to see cars along the Mt. Rose Highway, but not a helicopter. This week, Nevada Department of Transportation is using one to help in road construction near the summit. Being installed along the steep terrain are 9,500 square yards of steel mesh. “They are actually picking up individual […]
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