By Julie Cart, CalMatters By most measures, California has earned the right to brag about how much it has cleaned up its environmental act. The air in much of smog-shrouded Southern California has been scrubbed. A passenger car for sale here today is 99 percent cleaner than one on offer in the early 1970s. The […]
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By Stacey Havlik, The Conversation One in 30. That’s what a new first-of-its-kind study found was the number of students ages 13 to 17 who have experienced homelessness in the past year. The figure represents about 700,000 young people nationwide. When a student is homeless in high school, it can cause high levels of stress […]
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A Placer County sheriff’s deputy on Sunday shot a man in Carnelian Bay after the suspect allegedly tried to stab him. Officers went to the North Shore residence on Jan. 14 at 4am when someone at the residence called to say someone else there was acting “bizarre.” According to deputies, the suspect lunged at the […]
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By Kimber Laux, Las Vegas Review-Journal The Nevada Medical Board of Examiners is delaying implementation of a new opioid prescription law after dozens of doctors complained that the change is burdensome and enforcement is confusing. Assembly Bill 474, which went into effect Jan. 1, requires Nevada licensing boards to create regulations that outline disciplinary actions […]
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By Don Jenkins, Capital Press A weak to moderate La Nina in the tropical Pacific has probably peaked, though it may have enough punch left to swell snowpacks, climatologists reported last week. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said that the cooler-than-normal ocean likely will begin warming, but won’t reach average temperatures until the spring. […]
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By Austin Frakt and Aaron E. Carroll, New York Times The United States spends almost twice as much on health care, as a percentage of its economy, as other advanced industrialized countries — totaling $3.3 trillion, or 17.9 percent of gross domestic product in 2016. But a few decades ago American health care spending was […]
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By Thomas Moore, Las Vegas Sun Nongaming spending on the Strip drove resort revenue in Nevada to record levels in 2017, according to numbers released today by the Nevada Gaming Control Board. Each January, the board release its Nevada Gaming Abstract, a review of the previous year’s financial results from resorts grossing $1 million or […]
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A transient was indicted this week in the murder of a man last fall at the Hard Rock casino in Stateline. Jose Rodriguez-Quezada, 44, is accused of murder with a deadly weapon. Douglas County sheriff’s deputies found Kevin Edwards, 56, deceased in a Hard Rock hotel room on Oct. 3. Rodriguez-Quezada is scheduled to be […]
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By Heidi M. Przybyla, USA Today WASHINGTON – A lawyer representing President Trump arranged a $130,000 payment to a former adult film star one month before the 2016 presidential election to prevent her from discussing an alleged sexual encounter between her and Trump some 10 years earlier at Lake Tahoe during the American Century Championship celebrity […]
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By Kathryn Reed A group out of the Bay Area has offered to buy the former Kingsbury Middle School site for above what it was listed for. The Douglas County School District board this week accepted the offer of $3.75 million by Palo Alto-based Pioneer Mountain. The 22-plus-acre site in Stateline had been listed for […]
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