INDIANAPOLIS — A battle is brewing at the Indiana Statehouse as lawmakers worked Wednesday to keep legislation alive that addresses a legal loophole used by Ricker's convenience stores to sell cold beer.
PORTLAND, Ore. — A bill introduced in the Oregon House of Representatives would ban the use of alcohol on the state's public beaches.
Six months after the university updated its alcohol policy to include a ban on large containers of hard liquor in student residences and prohibited hard alcohol at undergraduate parties, there has been an encouraging decline in the number of students needing alcohol-related emergency medical aid or receiving police citations for alcohol offenses, according to statistics from fall and winter quarters.
TOPEKA — This isn't a last call for 3.2 beer, but changing laws in Colorado, Oklahoma and Minnesota will leave Kansas and Utah as the main consumers and distributors plan to reduce the flow.
HARTFORD — With little debate, an apparently thirsty House of Representatives on Wednesday approved legislation that would allow farmers to brew and sell beer similar to the way that some now make and market their own wine.
Last March, Jack McGarry woke up in a hospital bed with no recollection of where he had been or how he had gotten there.
We live in a golden age of wine, thanks in part to thirsty millennials and Americans seemingly intent on out-drinking the French.
HELENA — A state Senate panel on Tuesday made cuts to a bill that proposed allowing craft brewers to make 12,000 barrels of beer a year instead of the 60,000 they requested, and they increased the tax those brewers will have to pay.
HARRISBURG — Nine months after the state began allowing private retailers to sell wine to go, Republicans in the House of Representatives are looking to break the monopoly that Pennsylvania's state-run stores have on sales of vodka, gin, scotch and other hard liquor.
If you spend an evening out on a Friday or Saturday, you're likely to spot a lot of teenagers. Unfortunately, according to a recent study in the scientific journal Pediatrics, that's also when teens face the greatest risk of dying in a fatal car accident and a lot of those accidents involve alcohol. Researchers concluded that more restrictive alcohol policies are needed to increase safety.