By Bettina Boxall, Los Angeles Times TUOLUMNE — Tourists stopped at the Rim of the World overlook on California 120 earlier this month to take photos of the panoramic view — just as they always have. But they stared in silence at the ashen hues of a landscape swept by the largest wildfire to burn […]
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By Ed Komenda, Las Vegas Sun People call him the “sheriff of online gambling,” but Rip Gerber says he’s more like border patrol. As CEO of Locaid, a San Francisco technology company, Gerber makes sure gamblers are where they say they are. Locaid verifies the location of online gamblers for Ultimate Poker, William Hill and […]
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By Virginia Harrison, CNN Money The “Made in America” revival is gaining momentum with a majority of manufacturing executives now ready to consider pulling some production back from China. A new survey published Tuesday showed a big jump in recent months in the number of companies considering “re-shoring” production from China, once favored for its […]
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By Kathryn Reed The bulk of the buildings on the 164-acre campus of Lake Tahoe Community College have been funded by the state of California. But that might change next year. For more than a year college board members have been discussing the possibility of asking local voters to pass a general obligation bond that […]
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By Bill Lindelof, Sacramento Bee The Sacramento County Coroner’s office has released the name of a motorcyclist killed Monday when a car pulled in front of him on Greenback Lane near the entrance to Negro Bar State Park. The motorcyclist was identified as 41-year-old Shane Curtis Clark. His hometown was not available. Folsom police determined […]
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By Julie Bykowicz, Bloomberg As President Obama began his first term in January 2009, an Arizona Indian tribe saw a long-awaited opportunity to jumpstart a plan to build a 225,000-square-foot casino not far from the Cardinals’ football stadium. Five years earlier, through a special company, the Tohono O’odham Nation purchased land outside Phoenix, 160 miles […]
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By Monte Morin, Los Angeles Times It’s a climate puzzle that has vexed scientists for more than a decade and added fuel to the arguments of those who insist man-made global warming is a myth. Since just before the start of the 21st century, the Earth’s average global surface temperature has failed to rise despite […]
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By Ed Komenda, Las Vegas Sun Call it the year of movie-themed moneymakers. Gambling insiders expect this year’s Global Gaming Expo to be light on breakthroughs but heavy on pop culture. The convention’s most-anticipated games this year center around popular movies and pop stars of the last century. And while the subjects are wildly popular, […]
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By Diana Marcum, Los Angeles Times YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK — Each afternoon the fire’s thunderous plume rose. At night, helicopter crews at the Crane Flat lookout watched a line of orange burning across the horizon. The line kept drawing closer. By the last week of August, every effort to halt the Rim fire before it […]
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By Jane Braxton Little, Sacramento Bee SUSANVILLE – Dyer Mountain, the site of a planned, controversial four-season resort near Lake Almanor since 1999, is instead heading toward a future of timber production and harvesting. Federal Bankruptcy Judge Thomas E. Carlson approved the sale of 7,000 acres proposed for development to Sierra Pacific Industries, an Anderson-based […]
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