By Rong-Gong Lin II and Raoul Rañoa, Los Angeles Times One day, next to the traffic map and weather forecast on your smartphone, seismologist Thomas H. Jordan envisions an app that you can check to see when the chances of a major earthquake in California rise. Jordan, director of the Southern California Earthquake Center, is […]
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By Todd Prince, Las Vegas Review-Journal If Strip casino operators are interested in attracting esports to their establishments, they didn’t show it at the first Casino Esport Conference. The conference in Las Vegas last week, aimed to bring people from the casino and esports industry into one room to explore how casinos could integrate and […]
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By Art Marroquin, Las Vegas Review-Journal License plates aren’t an optional decoration. They’re a requirement so that your vehicle legally can hit the road in Nevada and every other state. Apparently, some motorists don’t realize that as several of you have sent emails or placed a call to the Road Warrior to complain about cars […]
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By Ray Hagar, Nevada Newsmakers Tax reform is anticipated to be the next big issue before Congress, and Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., should have a front row seat since he sits on the Senate Finance Committee and Senate Banking Committee. The cherished mortgage-interest tax deduction will survive but with changes, Heller said on “Nevada Newsmakers” […]
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By Associated Press The average price of gasoline jumped in the past two weeks after Hurricane Harvey prompted the closure of refineries. Industry analyst Trilby Lundberg said Sunday that it was the biggest price hike recorded by the Lundberg Survey since 2011. Read the whole story
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By Kathryn Reed A jury next year could decide if Placer County violated the state open meeting law and if there was a secret agreement with Squaw Valley Ski Holdings that involved the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency. A Placer County judge last week ruled that there is enough evidence for the case to go forward. […]
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A section of Highway 89 from Squaw Valley to Truckee will be getting a new surface with grinding and paving work beginning Sunday night. Motorists can expect delays of up to 20 minutes when the work starts tonight and goes around the clock until noon Friday. All the work is expected to be complete by […]
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By Kevin Fagan and Alison Graham, San Francisco Chronicle California housing costs are spiraling so high that they are pushing the state’s homelessness crisis into places it’s never been before — sparsely populated rural counties. A Chronicle analysis of biennial homeless counts taken early this year across California shows the sharpest increases occurred not in […]
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By Yvonne Gonzalez, Las Vegas Sun Representatives in Congress are expected to take up a nuclear waste policy bill this fall that deals with issues tied to the Yucca Mountain project. House Energy and Commerce Committee staffer Andy Zach was in Las Vegas on Thursday to present the congressional outlook on nuclear waste policy and […]
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For one week Highway 50 near Cave Rock will be reduced to one lane starting Sept. 11. The Nevada Department of Transportation will be removing the wire mesh placed over the Cave Rock rockface. “The wire mesh was placed over the rockface approximately three years ago as a temporary measure to help capture rockfall before […]
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