By Chad Terhune, Los Angeles Times The doctor can’t see you now. Consumers may hear that a lot more often after getting health insurance under President Obama’s Affordable Care Act. To hold down premiums, major insurers in California have sharply limited the number of doctors and hospitals available to patients in the state’s new health […]
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By Kathryn Reed Whether MV Transportation ever gets the $2 million it believes it is owed by a slew of South Shore entities may never be known because details of settlement agreements are only trickling out. Lake Tahoe News has been told the casinos and lodging property involved in the legal dispute have settled. TRPA […]
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By AP Author Bill McKibben has opened a Sierra Nevada conservation conference with a call for a “coordinated, global” effort to deal with climate change. McKibben, in a keynote address at the Sierra Nevada Alliance’s annual conference in South Lake Tahoe, said change being made on the local level to deal with climate change will […]
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By Carla Rivera, Los Angeles Times California community colleges are starting the fall term on an upbeat note, with most boosting enrollment and the number of classes offered, according to a survey of the state’s two-year schools released Wednesday. About 90 percent of the campuses reported higher enrollment than last fall and 84 percent are […]
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By Liz Halloran, NPR When the Obama administration recently announced it wouldn’t challenge the decision by Colorado and Washington voters to fully legalize marijuana, criticism rained down. The administration’s position, complained one Colorado congressman, was tantamount to allowing states to opt out of the federal law banning pot possession, cultivation and sale. Other anti-legalization activists […]
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By Kathryn Reed MEYERS – Make it look pretty and be functional were the overwhelming sentiments of people who want to make Meyers be more than it is today. Since the last meeting in February about the future of this South Shore enclave the advisory board has come up with a draft area plan for […]
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By Eryn Brown, Los Angeles Times Overall, young children in the U.S. maintained high vaccination rates in 2012, officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. But researchers also said there were 159 reported cases of measles between Jan. 1 and Aug. 24 this year — a higher number than usual […]
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By Lauren Schuker Blum and Candace Jackson, Wall Street Journal What attracts this generation of wealthy second-home buyers: ziplines, kids clubs and grilled cheese. For decades focused on golf, skiing or hunting, today’s master-planned resorts are being reimagined as fancy family camps, a trend that’s helping revive a number of struggling high-end second-home communities. Developers […]
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Jorge Miranda-Rivas of Incline Village was found guilty in Washoe County District Court on Sept. 11 on one count each of robbery with a deadly weapon, discharging a weapon from within a structure, assault with a deadly weapon and grand larceny of an automobile . The robbery at the Chevron in Incline occurred Jan. 2. […]
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By Cy Ryan and Richard N. Velotta, Las Vegas Sun The road to Nevada offering online poker to residents of other states is long and tortuous and gaming regulators took a step in that journey Wednesday when the state Gaming Control Board conducted a workshop meeting on a proposal for companies to offer progressive jackpots […]
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