By Bailey Schulz, Las Vegas Review-Journal According to a 2017 market outlook from Boeing, North American airlines will need to hire 117,000 new pilots by 2036 to keep up with an expanding fleet of aircraft. “We haven’t felt the effects yet,” said Hilarie Grey, the director of corporate communications at Las Vegas-based Allegiant Air. “But […]
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By Melissa Siig, Moonshine Ink There was a time this winter when, on the surface, Tahoe City’s future looked grim. The downtown commercial core was facing a plethora of empty restaurants and storefronts. The old Zia Lina space in the middle of downtown, vacated last year, was still empty, as well as the adjoining space […]
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By Richard N. Velotta, Las Vegas Review-Journal With the #MeToo movement raising awareness about workplace sexual harassment, one might think adding more language to existing state gaming regulations to help prevent sexual harassment would be a slam-dunk no-brainer. But that’s not necessarily the case. On May 3, the state Gaming Control Board hosted its first […]
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By Tony Bizjak, Sacramento Bee California became the first state in the country Wednesday to require that new homes have solar panels on their roofs. The mandate, which takes effect in 2020, won unanimous approval of the California Energy Commission. One commissioner predicted the “green” lifestyle regulation will eventually go national. Read the whole […]
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By Wade Tyler Millward, Las Vegas Review-Journal Michael Flaskey says his industry has matured. And for the CEO of Las Vegas-based timeshare company Diamond Resorts, that maturity — in the form of more analysts on Wall Street and more attention from regulators — has meant big money. Diamond Resorts owns Lake Tahoe Vacation Resort in […]
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By Bettina Boxall, Los Angeles Times The 2014 water bond included a novel funding approach designed to take at least some of the politicking out of deciding which projects get public money. This week’s tortured deliberations by the California Water Commission showed just how tough it is to do that. By applying a complex […]
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By Jeff German, Las Vegas Review-Journal A state task force Friday moved closer to overhauling how Nevada tracks casino emergency response plans in the wake of the Oct. 1 mass shooting outside Mandalay Bay. The 14-member panel met and approved several recommendations in a report seeking to change an outdated state law requiring casinos to […]
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By Tara Lohan, Water Deeply Imagine a California where springtime temperatures are 7 degrees warmer than they are today, where snowmelt runoff comes 50 days earlier and the average snowpack is just 36 percent of the 1981–2000 average. That may be the reality by the end of the century if we don’t curb greenhouse gas […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – Public outcry is forcing the Tahoe Transportation District board of directors to take more time before deciding how to reconfigure public transit on the South Shore. George Fink, who manages the bus system, painted a financially bleak picture for the board at the May 11 meeting. Part of the funding […]
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By John Myers and Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times Even in the wake of previous tax windfalls, Gov. Jerry Brown’s announcement on Friday was breathtaking: The state has collected an unexpected $9 billion in tax revenue in recent months, $3 billion more in cash than projected in January. The money is the latest installment in a […]
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