By Mark Koba, CNBC Three years of severe drought have made plenty of misery for California and other Western states. Now to make matters worse, the extremely dry conditions are creating the potential for a devastating fire season. “All the pieces are in place for a really bad season of wildfires,” said Malcolm North, a […]
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By Cathy Locke, Sacramento Bee In what Placerville police characterized as an outreach operation, officers accompanied by mental health and community resource representatives removed 14 illegal camps throughout the city. The Wednesday morning operation focused on known areas of illegal camping and resulted in the removal of camps along Broadway, Placerville Drive, Ray Lawyer Drive […]
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Saturday at 8:42am Nevada Highway Patrol troopers were called to stop a vehicle driving at a high speeds from Mono County. After a routine traffic stop Feb. 22, Mono County officers were interviewing the driver outside his 2013 Hyundai Sonata, with California plates 6VRP791. Passenger Geoffry Guess, 26, from Idaho got into the driver’s seat […]
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By Richard N. Velotta, Las Vegas Sun Gamblers will soon be able to use prepaid access cards to play slot machines in Nevada, a technological advancement that has some critics concerned that easier access to cash in a casino would broaden problem gambling. The Nevada Gaming Commission on Thursday approved amendments to two regulations that […]
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By Chris Megerian, Los Angeles Times WEST SACRAMENTO — When the glass-sheathed headquarters of the California teachers’ pension fund opened five years ago, it was supposed to help anchor developments along the blighted riverfront on the capital’s outskirts. But as Jack Ehnes, the fund’s chief executive, looked out from a top-floor conference room on a […]
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Measure L on the June 3 ballot will ask voters on the California side of the South Shore if they want to continue funding the local county library. There is already an assessment on property taxes. This would continue the $20 annual fee for another 12 years starting in 2015-16 so there is no interruption […]
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By Laurel Rosenhall, Sacramento Bee Gov. Jerry Brown and legislative leaders on Wednesday unveiled a proposal to spend roughly $687 million to alleviate the impacts of California’s drought, including efforts to clean and recycle water, improve conservation, capture rain, and give emergency food and housing assistance to farmworkers who will be out of work because […]
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Fallen Leaf Lake voters will be asked on June 3 to vote on a special fire tax. The small South Shore enclave is not generating enough money to support its volunteer fire department. The tax would not exceed $660 per unit each year. However, the amount would rise based on inflation. The annual appropriations limit […]
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By Louis Sahagun, Los Angeles Times A study broadens a notion held by the earliest criminologists: Periods of higher temperatures — on an hour-by-hour or week-to-week basis — are likely to produce more crime. The study by Matthew Ranson of Abt Associates, a research and consulting firm in Cambridge, Mass., suggests global warming will trigger […]
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By Jennifer Liberto, CNN Money WASHINGTON — Americans dearly love getting their mail daily. But they can’t say what they’d miss if the U.S. Postal Service disappeared. “People seemed to sense that the Postal Service disappearing would be a bad thing, but they had trouble articulating more specifically how this would affect them personally,” the […]
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