By Jessie Bekker, Las Vegas Review-Journal Nevada is doing better processing immigration cases involving minors than the nation as a whole, but nearly a quarter of all such cases filed in the state since 2009 are still pending, according to federal data released last week. Much like the general backlog of deportation cases, the […]
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By Kathryn Reed LOGAN SHOALS – While it looks like NDOT is building a climbing wall along Highway 50 on the South Shore, the reality is workers are attempting to stop Mother Nature. Boulders, some the size of trucks, repeatedly tumbled down last winter onto the road. No cars were hit; no one was injured. […]
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By KCRA-TV A Cameron Park man died and two of his family members were wounded Sunday night when a gunman opened fire at a crowd in a Las Vegas music festival, family members told KCRA 3. Kurt Von Tillow, 55, died in the mass shooting. His sister was hit by shrapnel in the thigh and […]
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By Lake Tahoe News Douglas County officials are not being very forthcoming with information about employees stealing from the public works department even though they admit they were first made aware of the thefts in March. The Nevada Division of Investigation and Douglas County District Attorney’s Office have been investigating the thefts since they were […]
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By Angela Hart, Sacramento Bee Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday signed a robust package of housing legislation aimed at addressing California’s unprecedented affordability crisis. “These new laws will help cut red tape and encourage more affordable housing, including shelter for the growing number of homeless in California,” Brown said in a statement. The housing bills […]
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By Hiroko Tabuchi, New York Times SACRAMENTO — The Trump administration may appear to control climate policy in Washington, but the nation’s most dynamic environmental regulator is here in California. Mary D. Nichols, California’s electric-car-driving, hoodie-wearing, 72-year-old air quality regulator, is pressing ahead with a far-reaching agenda of environmental and climate actions. She says she […]
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By Michael R. Blood, AP Scientists. Tax collectors. Typists. Analysts. Lawyers. And more scientists. Recreational marijuana use becomes legal in California in 2018, and one of the things to blossom in the emerging industry isn’t green and leafy – it’s government jobs. The state is on a hiring binge to fill what eventually will be […]
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By Steven Greenhut, California Policy Center If you ask the union-controlled California Public Employees’ Retirement System about the state’s looming pension crisis, you’re likely to get this answer: What pension crisis? But the story was much different at CalPERS’ own Finance and Administration Committee meeting Sept. 19. City officials from across California warned CalPERS board […]
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Motorists traveling in the Truckee-Tahoe should expect traffic delays next week as paving operations on Highway 89 move toward the Interstate 80 junction and the roundabouts. Full eastbound and westbound I-80 ramp closures at the Highway 89 south interchange will be in effect around the clock from 5am Oct. 2 through 8pm Oct. 4. One-way […]
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By Jenny Kane, Reno Gazette-Journal Nevada took a gamble on recreational marijuana, and it’s paying off. Dispensaries sold $27.1 million of pot in Nevada, in July alone. That’s almost double what Colorado and Oregon sold in their first months. It’s almost seven times what Washington sold. Banking on weed, Nevada made $10.2 million off the fledgling […]
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