A Pennsylvania House bill on liquor licenses, touted as forward-thinking and offering a specific class of business owners greater flexibility, received tentative support at a hearing Tuesday.
Members of the state’s House Liquor Control Committee met at the Liberty View Independence Visitor Center in Philadelphia to hear testimony from a number of groups on House Bill 1617, sponsored by Rep. Craig Staats, R-Bucks.
Mainers apparently have a thing for the mixture of coffee and alcohol.
Pabst Blue Ribbon began testing “Hard Coffee” this month in five states up and down the East Coast. One of them is Maine, a state whose decades-long affinity for coffee-flavored brandy is well known. And according to the Portland Press Herald, some local liquor stores are having a hard time keeping their shelves stocked with PBR’s new caffeine-infused malt beverage.
Raleigh, N.C. — Grocery stores and other retailers could sell liquor under a long-discussed privatization bill that rolled out Tuesday at the General Assembly.
House Bill 971 would overhaul the state's Alcoholic Beverage Control system, taxing and regulating the industry but doing away with government-run stores. Legislative staff analysis indicates the measure would easily triple the number of places liquor is sold in North Carolina.
WICHITA, Kan. (KAKE) - It was only four months ago that Kansas grocery and convenient stores stocked their shelves with 6% beer for the first time instead of 3.2%. However, those stores were not the only ones who started selling new products.
Changes in liquor sale laws also included a compromise: liquor stores could sell nonalcoholic products. Tom Jacob, owner of Jacob Liquor, is making the most of the compromise to compensate for sales.
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The New Hampshire Liquor Commission (NHLC) will host a ribbon cutting ceremony for the 20,000-square-foot, energy-neutral Tri-City NH Liquor & Wine Outlet in Somersworth. The new Outlet, which is located in the revitalized building of the former Dover-Rochester-Somersworth Street Railway Trolley Car Repair Shop, serves Somersworth, Dover, Rochester and surrounding Maine communities. The Tri-City Outlet features more than 4,200 sizes and varieties of wines and spirits is easily accessible off the Spaulding Turnpike and Route 108.
A new grassroots group, concerned about Utah liquor laws, says it plans to represent everyday residents and “advocate for better beer laws."
HAMPTON -- Drunken driving arrests nearly doubled in Hampton this year from 2018, leading police to bolster their efforts to catch intoxicated motorists and over-serving bars.
Montgomery County Alcohol Beverage Services (ABS) and its partner, Tito’s Handmade Vodka, raised $10,000 for the national charity Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation during the month of June.
The Wilkesboro Police Department’s recent underage drinking and driving cases reflect an ongoing serious problem.
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — North Carolina distilleries would benefit from eased regulations to sell their own products on-site and market them at Alcoholic Beverage Control stores in legislation heading to Gov. Roy Cooper's desk.
