By David Streitfeld, New York Times SAN FRANCISCO — Look out Las Vegas, here comes FarmVille. Silicon Valley is betting that online gambling is its next billion-dollar business, with developers across the industry turning casual games into occasions for adults to wager. At the moment these games are aimed overseas, where attitudes toward gambling are […]
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By Eli Segall, Las Vegas Sun Helped by a rate increase and lower expenses, NV Energy had a jump in fourth-quarter earnings and nearly doubled its profit in 2012. The power company, which serves about 90 percent of Nevada’s population, said Friday it earned $17.2 million of net income, or a gain of 7 cents […]
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By Dan Spano We have had a strong start to 2013 in Lake Tahoe real estate. Homes continue to sell at a strong pace and now the median price is starting to rise. Even with the reducing inventory of homes on the market and the interest rates still at an all-time low, I believe we’ll […]
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By Ed Ballam, Firehouse Fire has long been used as a weapon through history and continues to be an effective means of terrorism to this day. In his keynote address at the Firehouse World conference in San Diego, Robert Baird, deputy national fire director of Fire and Aviation Management for the U.S. Forest Service, said […]
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A South Lake Tahoe man was arrested Thursday night after the vehicle he was driving plowed into two parked cars. Christopher Catterson, 27, told officers he was not the driver of the vehicle that hit two cars parked in a driveway at 2592 Fountain Drive. Witnesses told officers Catterson was in the driver’s seat of […]
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By Andrew Doughman, Las Vegas Sun CARSON CITY — A smoking habit could cost you a job opportunity at a hospital or other medical facility under legislation proposed by state Sen. Joe Hardy, R-Boulder City. It’s currently illegal for an employer to discriminate against employees who use a product — such as tobacco — outside […]
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By David McGrath Schwartz, Las Vegas Sun CARSON CITY — For decades, Nevada casinos paid a tax on the meals they “comped” patrons and employees — the iconic Las Vegas tradition of pit bosses doling out steak dinners to blackjack players, or more recently, slot jockeys cashing in their reward points. But gaming, Nevada’s largest […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – Even with millions of dollars being spent in the Lake Tahoe Basin each year, it’s not always easy to identify a California Tahoe Conservancy backed project. This state agency based in South Lake Tahoe is the major force behind Lakeview Commons, a major contributor to Explore Tahoe, and a constant […]
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By Mark Calvey, San Francisco Business Journal Safeway introduced a combined debit card and store loyalty card so that it can pull money directly out of a customer’s checking account without paying the hefty fees it incurs when customers pay with a bank’s debit card. Those signing up for the program get a new Safeway […]
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By Ed Fletcher, Sacramento Bee A popular Placer County hiking trail has reopened after authorities say a state Fish and Wildlife warden was forced to shoot and kill a mountain lion Sunday. Authorities were first alerted to an aggressive mountain lion early Saturday evening, when a hiker on the Stevens Trail near Colfax, fearing for […]
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