DOUGLAS — After decades of clear rules against alcohol sales and gambling on the Wyoming State Fair Park, the state Legislature next month will consider allowing both year-round to bring in more cash.
When investigators with the Office of the Attorney General and the Alcoholic Beverage Control Division of the Department of Revenue ordered wine online, 22 out of 63 companies shipped to Mississippi.
The problem: It's illegal to ship alcohol into Mississippi. Also, some of them shipped to underage customers and into dry counties.
During the 2017 legislative session, the Wyoming Legislature made changes to liquor laws that affected the establishments statewide. Under the new laws, buildings rather than rooms are licensed. Several issues have arisen regarding the change in wording.
A new report by a state panel found encouraging downward trends in alcohol use, drunk driving crashes, and alcohol-related arrests and punishment among Pennsylvania youths.
From 2011 through 2015, there has been a steady decline in drinking among 12–17 year-olds of 18 to 20 percent, according to the Pennsylvania State Epidemiological Outcomes Workgroup (SEOW) report (PDF).
The state Senate advanced legislation co-sponsored by state Sen. John Proos (R-St. Joseph) last week to revise the nature of administration for Michigan’s alcohol industry.
As they’ve watched Virginia’s brewery and wine industries boom, craft distillers have begun to feel the state is unfairly harsh on businesses that make the stronger stuff.
In Idaho, the state controls how many liquor licenses are available and only releases new ones when populations rise enough to warrant. While entrepreneurs say a skyrocketing secondhand market for licenses stifles new local businesses, state officials say their hands are tied until sweeping reform happens.
HARRISBURG, Pa., Jan. 23, 2018 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- At a town-hall-style meeting of parents and community leaders at the Bear Creek School in Elizabethtown, the Pennsylvania Liquor Control Board (PLCB) today unveiled a new public awareness campaign designed to spark conversations about alcohol use between parents and their elementary to middle-school-aged children.
(CNN)Vermont, the "Green Mountain State," has become the first state to legalize marijuana by passing a law in the legislature rather than by use of a ballot measure.
Gov. Phil Scott signed H. 511 into law "with mixed emotions" Monday night, allowing for the possession of recreational marijuana.
CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Lawmakers are again considering lowering the drinking age in New Hampshire.
The House Criminal Justice and Public Safety Committee is holding a public hearing Tuesday on a bill that would lower the legal age for alcohol possession from 21 to 20.