By Noah Glick, KUNR As Nevada’s gubernatorial race begins to heat up, current Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval says he hopes one key piece of his legacy remains intact for the next administration. Sandoval says he wants to hear what all the candidates have to say, but there’s one specific issue on his mind. “Obviously, I’m […]
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By Kathryn Reed It was a bit of a grade-school level civics lesson for those who sat through the South Lake Tahoe mayor’s address on Tuesday. It was not about laying a path for the future. It wasn’t about what the council has done in his one year holding the gavel. It wasn’t about how […]
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A South Lake Tahoe man was arrested in Gardnerville on a slew of drug charges. Douglas County deputies stopped a vehicle on Nov. 19 at 7:37pm for alleged traffic violations. The car matched one that was called in that evening as being suspicious by the reporting party. The passenger, Patrick MacRoberts, 45, from South Lake […]
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By Chris Megerian, Los Angeles Times Regina Bateson was at home trying to get her young children to fall asleep before they realized Donald Trump would be their next president. Jessica Morse was volunteering in an empty office in Colorado surrounded by the wreckage of Hillary Clinton’s failed campaign. Roza Calderon felt like she […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – Snow – and all the things one can do in it will be the thrust of the 2017-18 Lake Tahoe Visitors Authority ad blitz. They will tie into the “there must be something in the water” mantra that started in summer 2016. The board of directors this month were shown […]
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By Yvonne Gonzalez, Las Vegas Sun Not only does Nevada’s naturally hard water cloud the taste of coffee, experts say — it also requires steady monitoring, even if lawmakers approve cuts to a federal agency that monitors quality. A coffee tasting at UNLV served as a platform to discuss potential budget cuts to the Environmental […]
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By Henry Brean, Las Vegas Review-Journal In Northern Nevada’s Great Boiling Spring, strange microscopic creatures thrive in water hot enough to kill you. Scientists led by UNLV researcher Brian Hedlund are studying the microorganisms in this near-200-degree environment in search of clues about life on Earth and elsewhere. Using a new $900,000 grant from NASA, […]
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By Riley Snyder, Nevada Independent When Nevada voters head to the polls in 2018, they’ll be given the opportunity to fundamentally reshape the state’s energy market and end NV Energy’s monopoly control of electric service. But what voters may not know is that Nevada came close to doing the same thing almost 20 years ago. […]
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By Susan Wood STATELINE – There’s a memorable scene in the movie “Big” where lead actor Tom Hanks leaves a dinner party table to explain algebra to a boy having trouble with it. Hanks tells the youngster to forget the X’s and Y’s. “Let’s imagine Larry Bird is going to score 10 points in the […]
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By Evan Halper, Los Angeles Times When 50,000 acre-feet of water went gushing out of the Sacramento River last month, it fast became a test of California’s ability to protect its environmental policies from an increasingly hostile Trump administration. The episode proved humbling. Heeding the calls of big agriculture interests and area congressional Republicans, […]
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