First Autonomous Urban Drone Delivery in Nevada
A drone has delivered a package to a residential location in a small western Nevada town in what its maker says is the first fully autonomous, federally approved urban drone delivery in the United...
View ArticleSierras Along California, Nevada Line Long Overdue for Big Quake
Scientists say the Sierra’s eastern front is long overdue for a large earthquake along the California-Nevada line, where a magnitude-7 event expected on average every 30 years hasn’t occurred in six...
View ArticleCameras Trained on Mountains around Lake Tahoe Help Wildfire Battle
A growing network of cameras trained on the mountains around Lake Tahoe is changing the way crews fight Western wildfires by allowing early detection that triggers quicker, cheaper, more tactical...
View ArticleRetrofitting in Utah, Nevada Spurred by Earthquake Report
A new report raising the likelihood of a destructive earthquake striking Salt Lake City, Utah in the next half century has underscored the urgency to retrofit more than 30,000 older brick homes and...
View ArticleNevada Doctor Sued by Parents of Painkiller Overdose Victim
The Reno, Nev. doctor at the center of a federal investigation into an illegal prescription drug ring is being accused by the parents of an overdose victim of ignoring their warnings and continuing to...
View ArticleNevada Sports Bar Settles Part of Overtime Suit With $375K Payout
Bully’s Sports Bar & Grill has agreed to pay $375,000 in back wages to settle part of a class-action lawsuit with 15 cooks who accused the oldest sports bar chain in northern Nevada of denying them...
View ArticleHundreds of Evacuations in California, Nevada from Flooding
Hundreds fled homes as a massive winter storm packing heavy rain, damaging winds and lightning caused mudslides and widespread flooding in Northern California and Nevada. The Russian River in...
View ArticleNevada’s Recreational Marijuana Sales Launch Hinges on Court Decision
Nevada’s marijuana regulators are working furiously to launch recreational sales on July 1, a fast-approaching deadline that could hinge on a court deciding whether the powerful liquor industry should...
View ArticleCalifornia Wildfire Threatens 1,500 Homes
A California blaze in the rugged mountains outside of Yosemite National Park has destroyed eight structures and forced thousands of nearby residents to flee their homes. As of Tuesday evening, the fire...
View ArticleNew Bridge Design Tested by Nevada Quake Lab Following Mexico Quake
Scientists at a Nevada earthquake lab this week tested new bridge designs with connectors they say are innovative and created to better withstand violent temblors and speed reconstruction efforts after...
View ArticleNevada Reaches Tentative Settlement Homeowners and Insurers in Wildfire Suit
The state of Nevada has reached a tentative settlement with dozens of homeowners and insurance companies that filed an $80 million negligence lawsuit after a fire destroyed 24 homes when strong winds...
View ArticleNevada Attorney General Recommends $25M Wildfire Settlement
Nevada’s attorney general is recommending approval of a $25 million settlement with homeowners and insurance companies who sought more than $300 million in damages from the state after a fire destroyed...
View ArticleWinds in the Sierras Reach 94 Mph Ahead of Big Snow Storm
Dangerous winds in the Sierra toppled a semi-trailer truck, downed power lines and closed a stretch of highway in Southern California on Monday ahead of a winter storm expected to bring up to 2 feet of...
View ArticleFire Official Says Arcing Power Lines Caused Big Nevada Brush Fire
Satellite imagery and surveillance video from a casino roof 5 miles away helped pinpoint arcing power lines in gale force winds as the cause of a November brush fire that destroyed five Reno homes and...
View ArticleNevada Ski Resort Sued for Negligence After Fatal Avalanche
The widow and a friend of a man killed in an avalanche at a Lake Tahoe ski resort last year have filed separate lawsuits accusing the resort of negligently rushing to open the slopes in unsafe...
View ArticleMan Admits Ransomware Plot Against Tesla in Nevada
A Russian man has pleaded guilty in the U.S. to offering a Tesla employee $1 million to cripple the electric car company’s massive electric battery plant in Nevada with ransomware and steal company...
View ArticleNevada Police Officer Suspended for Tweets Seeks $1M
A Sparks, Nev. police officer who is accusing the city of violating his free speech rights is seeking $1 million in damages after he was suspended for four days for making comments on his private...
View ArticleNevada Senator Wants Ideas to Address Wildfire Smoke
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto is urging firefighters, scientists, teachers and moms to help form new strategies to deal with increasingly unhealthy air quality in Nevada caused by wildfires that continue...
View ArticleAluminum Wrap Being Used to Protect Homes from California Wildfires
Martin Diky said he panicked as a huge wildfire started racing down a slope toward his wooden house near Lake Tahoe. The contractor had enough time to do some quick research and decided to wrap his...
View ArticlePandemic Underscores Need to Diversify Tahoe’s Tourist Economy
The COVID-19 pandemic helped expose the growing vulnerability of Lake Tahoe’s increasingly tourism-dependent economy as housing costs balloon, year-round residency declines and more workers commute...
View ArticleToxic Cables to be Removed from Lake Tahoe Under Settlement with AT&T’s Pac Bell
AT&T’s Pac Bell subsidiary has settled a lawsuit conservationists filed under a U.S. law more typically cited in Superfund cases, agreeing to spend up to $1.5 million to remove 8 miles of toxic...
View ArticleNevada Utility to Inspect Power Lines Near 2020 Reno Wildfire
Nevada’s largest utility plans to inspect power lines near a Reno neighborhood where a 2020 wildfire destroyed five homes and damaged two dozen others, a blaze that investigators blamed on arching...
View ArticleJudge Dismisses Suit in Fatal Police Shooting in Utah
A federal judge has dismissed a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of a Utah man who was shot at nearly 30 times and killed as he ran away from Salt Lake City police in 2020. U.S. District Judge …
View ArticleJudge Dismisses $6.5M Suit in 2016 Nevada Plane Crash
A federal judge has ruled against the family of a pilot killed in 2016 who sought more than $6.5 million from in a lawsuit that blamed air traffic controllers for a fatal plane crash near Reno-Tahoe...
View ArticleTesla Confirms Nevada Expansion to Make More Electric Trucks
Tesla confirmed it intends to invest $3.6 billion to expand its manufacturing capabilities in Nevada for “high-volume” production of electric semi-trucks and make enough cell batteries for 2 million...
View ArticleNevada Lawsuit with Ex-ACLU Observer Settled for $250K
The Reno City Council approved a $250,000 settlement Wednesday with a former American Civil Liberties Union official who was shot by police with rubber bullets while serving as a legal observer at a...
View ArticleNevada Mine Cited for Major Safety Violation in Worker Death
Federal investigators cited a Nevada gold mine for safety violations in the death of an underground worker, including inadequate inspections and a defective rearview camera on the truck she backed into...
View ArticleFamily of Suicidal Black Teen Killed in Nevada Agrees To $2M Settlement
The parents of a suicidal Black teenager who was fatally shot by police in 2020 in Nevada have agreed to a $2 million settlement with the city of Sparks that also includes more crisis intervention and...
View ArticleWestern Heat Wave Ahead of July 4th Raises Prompts Changes in Utah
Extremely hot, dry conditions forecast across much of the West through the Fourth of July are heightening concerns about wildfires and the dangers of fireworks, including in Salt Lake City where...
View ArticleAvalanche Killed 1, Injured 3 at Popular California Ski Resort
An avalanche roared through a section of expert trails at a California ski resort near Lake Tahoe on Wednesday, sweeping up four people and killing one, as a major storm with snow and gusty winds moved...
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