By Soumya Karlamangla, Los Angeles Times So many people have fallen sick with influenza in California that pharmacies have run out of flu medicines, emergency rooms are packed, and the death toll is rising higher than in previous years. Health officials said Friday that 27 people younger than 65 have died of the flu in […]
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By Todd R. Hansen, Daily Republic California motorists entered the new year paying the most for gasoline since Father Time ushered in 2014. Those prices, according to AAA, are expected to fall in coming weeks – maybe. The first week of 2018 saw the average price in San Francisco as the highest in the […]
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By Jennifer Marie Hurley Every winter, local governments across the United States apply millions of tons of road salt to keep streets navigable during snow and ice storms. Runoff from melting snow carries road salt into streams and lakes, and causes many bodies of water to have extraordinarily high salinity. At Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, my […]
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The Tahoe Douglas Visitor’s Authority and Tahoe Regional Planning Agency are seeking scoping comments on the proposed Tahoe South Events Center in Stateline. The events center would be a publicly-owned assembly, event, and entertainment venue located on Highway 50 where the current parking lot of MontBleu is. Edgewood Companies owns the parcels it would be […]
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By Kathryn Reed Lukins Brothers water customers are likely to have higher water bills in order to deal with contaminants in the groundwater that the company had nothing to do with. If only it were as easy to get rid of the “stain” on South Lake Tahoe’s groundwater as it is to dry clean a […]
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A car chase that started in Carson City on Thursday night ended in South Lake Tahoe with a foot chase. James Thomas Cook, 35, was driving a stolen vehicle from the Bay Area. He faces five charges, including driving under the influence, vehicle theft and evading a police officer. Bail was set at $90,500. Nevada […]
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By Jessie Bekker Las Vegas Review-Journal It’s been only four days since Nevada’s new opioid prescription law took effect, and doctors already are venting about its impact on their practices. About 40 physicians, lawyers and others attended a meeting of the state medical and dental boards Wednesday in Las Vegas to express concerns over draft […]
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By Colton Lochhead, Las Vegas Review-Journal Nevada’s thousands of marijuana employees and millions of dollars in pot tax revenue could be in jeopardy with the rescinding of a federal memo seen as the sole protector for state-regulated pot markets. The Obama-era policy called the Cole Memo had paved the way for legalized marijuana to flourish […]
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By Johnathan J. Cooper, AP California’s top insurance regulator said Thursday that insurers are increasingly refusing to offer homeowner’s policies in areas prone to wildfire — a problem that’s likely to get worse as companies respond to last year’s devastating blazes. Insurers in 2016 refused to renew more than 10,000 policies in the 24 counties […]
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Preliminary data shows that 303 traffic fatalities occurred on Nevada roads in 2017, down from approximately 330 deaths the previous year. The decline in traffic fatalities marks the first time since 2013 that traffic fatalities were less than the previous year in Nevada. Total year-end traffic deaths could be adjusted based on ongoing traffic crash […]
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