Peter Quillian, who is suspected of committing several burglaries in Stateline, is behind bars. Quillian was arrested by Douglas County sheriff’s deputies on Sept. 24. He was arrested on a fugitive warrant out of South Lake Tahoe. Deputies said at the time he was in possession of a hypodermic needle. Quillian is accused of stealing […]
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By Meghin Delaney, Las Vegas Review-Journal Nevada students are slowly making gains in math in elementary school, but by the time eighth grade rolls around that progress comes to a screeching halt. At least that’s what the most recent testing data released by the state suggests. Only 18 percent of students reached the proficiency […]
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By Nathaniel Levine, Sacramento Bee Public drinking water systems in California violated state and federal regulations more than 4,700 times in 2016. This database contains every violation from that year. Most of the violations occurred at small systems serving fewer than 300 people, but you might consume their water even if the district doesn’t serve […]
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By Susan Wood PARK CITY, Utah – Despite a war of words between the United States and North Korea, U.S. Olympic officials and winter athletes all but shrugged off the danger of a nuclear threat affecting the Games in South Korea in February. Team USA and representatives from the PyeongChang Games on Sept. 25 discussed […]
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By Alastair Bland, Water Deeply Around California, the country and the world, reservoirs are silently filling with sediment, and only a few people are thinking about it. Among them is Tim Randle, a civil engineer with the United States Bureau of Reclamation’s Sedimentation and River Hydraulics Group. “We used to be gaining water storage capacity with […]
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By Kathryn Reed Mike Owen is back on the campaign trail in an attempt to unseat El Dorado County Auditor Joe Harn in 2018. Owen lost to Harn in 2014. A requirement to be a county auditor in California is to be an active certified public account in good standing with the California Board of […]
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By Colton Lochhead, Las Vegas Review-Journal Nevada Assembly Republican Leader Paul Anderson’s decision to step down from the state Legislature will have ripple effects as the party gears up for the 2018 elections. Anderson resigned his Assembly seat on Friday to take a position with the Governor’s Office of Economic Development. Anderson will eventually replace […]
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By Cy Ryan, Las Vegas Sun CARSON CITY — Gov. Brian Sandoval wants the state to take another look at the relationship between the gaming and legal marijuana industries in Nevada. He has issued an order for the Nevada Gaming Policy Committee to meet by Dec. 15 to review the issue. Read the whole story
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By Kathryn Reed El Dorado County spent more than a quarter of a million dollars to do a salary study that it doesn’t want to use during current negotiations with workers. The 900 or so employees represented by Local 1 are working without a contract. The last full contract expired June 30, 2016, but had […]
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Publisher’s note: This is one in a series of stories about affordable housing in the Lake Tahoe-Truckee region. All articles may be accessed via the home page under Special Projects, 2017 Affordable Housing. By Kathryn Reed Nearly two years after Vail Resorts announced it would spend $30 million on workforce housing, the financial commitment is […]
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