By Kathryn Reed A business with the same SS logo used by the Nazis, posing with the Confederate flag and using it in another business, slamming gays and immigrants, saying there is no such thing as a transgender, and belonging to an outlaw motorcycle gang. The above describes one of the candidates on the June […]
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By Sam Gross, Reno Gazette-Journal Amtrak Chief of Police Neil Trugman said Tuesday at a press conference that his department’s investigation is indicating that 22-year-old Aaron Salazar attempted suicide by jumping from his moving train as it entered Truckee. Salazar’s family fiercely disagrees. The Portland State University economics student was traveling on Amtrak’s California Zephyr from Colorado to […]
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A disagreement between two men who recently moved to South Lake Tahoe ended in a knife fight on Memorial Day. Edmundo Martinez, 45, was arrested on May 28 on assault with a deadly weapon charge. The name of the 23-year-old victim has not been released. According to police, he was in stable condition at Renown […]
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By Michael Green, The Conversation Nevadans can be forgiven for thinking they are in an endless loop of “The Walking Dead” TV series. Their least favorite zombie federal project refuses to die. In 2010, Congress had abandoned plans to turn Yucca Mountain, about 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas, into the nation’s only federal dump […]
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By Joyce Sakamoto and Shelley Whitehead, The Conversation Cases of vector-borne disease have more than doubled in the U.S. since 2004, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently reported, with mosquitoes and ticks bearing most of the blame. Mosquitoes, long spreaders of malaria and yellow fever, have more recently spread dengue, Zika and Chikungunya […]
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By Rosanna Xia, Los Angeles Times It took years of activist campaigns to turn the plastic bag into a villain, and hard-fought legislation to reduce its presence in oceans and waterways. Now, environmentalists and lawmakers are deploying similar tactics against a new generation of plastic pollutants. There are drinking straws, which as a viral video […]
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By Linda Fine Conaboy RENO – Citizen scientist—maybe you’re familiar with these two words. You may have even read about them in Lake Tahoe News. Maybe you are a citizen scientist. At any rate, a citizen scientist is an individual who voluntarily contributes his or her time, effort, and resources toward scientific research in collaboration with professional scientists. […]
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By F. Chris Curran, The Conversation School shootings like the one that took place in Santa Fe, Texas, on May 18 are often followed by calls for enhanced security measures. But Santa Fe High School already had many of these security measures in place. For instance, the high school had a school resource officer who […]
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By Matt Weiser, Water Deeply The town of Mammoth Lakes is generally known for two things: epic skiing in winter, thanks to the very high elevation of its ski mountain; and volcanic activity, because the mountain is a simmering volcano. It’s normal to hike or ski around Mammoth and smell the sulfurous gases venting from […]
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By Richard N. Velotta, Las Vegas Review-Journal Executives in boardrooms across the gaming industry had to be smiling when first-quarter results began rolling in. Shareholders, too. The final earnings reports for the three months that ended March 31 were filed with regulators last week. The reports revealed that casino companies and their suppliers got […]
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