By Sean Whaley, Nevada News Bureau CARSON CITY –- Nevada Supreme Court Justice James Hardesty said Monday that the country will not have success in reducing the tragic type of shooting incident that occurred Friday in Connecticut without providing more mental health support. Hardesty, interviewed on the “Nevada NewsMakers” television program, said “we’re going backward” […]
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By Joe Ortiz, Sacramento Bee Among the hundreds of campaign expenses incurred by the state firefighters’ union political action committees this year, two relatively small line items reflect a grudge the organization has held for years. The California Department of Forestry Firefighters Small Contributor PAC made 147 contributions to state and local candidate campaigns in […]
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Placer County supervisors last week gave their support to efforts to name an unnamed peak in eastern Placer County in honor of three Tahoe servicemen who were killed in action in the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. The peak, located in the Lake Tahoe Basin on U.S. Forest Service land in Placer County, will be […]
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International real estate investment and services firm Kennedy Wilson today announced it along with unnamed partners bought the Ritz-Carlton, Lake Tahoe and Ritz-Carlton Residences. The properties had been bank owned. However, a year ago JMA Ventures, owners of Homewood Mountain Resort, had entered an agreement to buy the residences. KW said Pacific Western Bank provided […]
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By Kathryn Reed RENO – Even though plaintiffs wanted to draw El Dorado County back into the fray of the MV Transportation-STATA lawsuit, a bankruptcy court judge on Monday granted the county’s motion to dismiss. Sallie Armstrong, outside counsel for the county, argued that the county’s payment of $160,000 to MV two years ago satisfied […]
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By Cathy Locke, Sacramento Bee After more than a decade of lawsuits and threats of lawsuits, a dispute over water service for the Shingle Springs Rancheria and Red Hawk Casino appears to have been resolved. The El Dorado Local Agency Formation Commission, which rules on government reorganizations, earlier this month effectively rescinded the 1988 annexation […]
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By Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times Thinking of buying your kid a TV of his or her own for Christmas or Hannukah? Well here’s a bit of advice from your friends at the American Journal of Preventive Medicine: Don’t. It turns out there is a way to make television even more unhealthy for your children: […]
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By Bill Lindelof, Sacramento Bee Today is likely to be the busiest mailing day of the year for the U.S. Postal Service — and private shippers will also be busy moving millions of parcels. There is still time to mail, but Christmas is drawing close. Ralph Petty, spokesman for the Postal Service in Sacramento, suggests […]
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By Kathryn Reed In a meeting that was more about reports than decision-making, the California Tahoe Conservancy board was updated last week about the Upper Truckee Marsh, lands the state agency owns and what the adoption of the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency’s Regional Plan means. While the environmental documents for the Upper Truckee Marsh may […]
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By Gerry Shih, Reuters Social games maker Zynga Inc. has filed a preliminary application to run real-money gambling games in Nevada, a significant step in cracking a complex but potentially massive new market that could resuscitate its faltering business. The Nevada Gaming Control Board will now examine whether Zynga is fit to hold a gaming […]
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