By Kyle Roerink, Las Vegas Sun The city of Fernley is among the last signs of civilization on the road to the Burning Man festival. The majority of the 60,000 beatniks, bohemians, freethinkers and adventurers attending this year’s Burning Man traveled through the town to arrive at the event, which started Tuesday. The town’s Wal-Mart […]
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By Kathryn Reed EMERALD BAY STATE PARK – While Lora Knight’s guests were always allowed to drive to her estate, that has not always been the case for California State Parks visitors. This is the second year people with disabilities are allowed to drive to Vikingsholm at Emerald Bay State Park. Otherwise it’s a one-mile […]
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Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the Aug. 21, 2014, San Jose Mercury News. Fifty years ago, the rapidly subsiding groundwater throughout the West brought urgent calls for action. Arizona responded. So did Colorado, Oregon, Texas — yes, Texas — and others. But not California. It is the only western state that does not have […]
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By Jacqueline Howard, Huffington Post When a lizard loses its tail, it grows back. But how? Scientists have taken a big step closer to answering that question by pinpointing the genes responsible for tail regeneration. And the finding may yield important clues about how to regenerate limbs in humans. For the study, the researchers took […]
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Tahoe Arts Project is having a fundraiser on the Safari Rose on Sept. 18 from 6-8pm. The boat sails from Round Hill Pines. The event includes a cruise to Emerald Bay. The $65 tickets include wine and appetizers. For tickets, call 530.542.3632. TAP is a nonprofit that brings performing arts to South Shore students and […]
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By Diana Marcum, Los Angeles Times The U.S. Forest Service on Wednesday unveiled a salvage logging operation for more than 15,000 acres of trees burned in last summer’s Rim Fire. The plan — which calls for removing an additional 17,706 acres of trees along non-public roads — means the Forest Service will be selling more […]
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Laura’s Law has been adopted by the Placer County Board of Supervisors. It takes effect in January. This gives county mentally health officials, as well as courts, family members and probation officers the right to mandate mental health treatment in certain circumstances. The estimated $400,000 annual expense to Placer County will be paid for by […]
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Updated Aug. 27 5:44pm Less than 2 acres of National Forest burned in a remote area on the Carson side of Kingsbury Grade on Wednesday afternoon. As of 4:20pm firefighters had stopped it from spreading farther and were laying a hose around it, according to the U.S. Forest Service. The initial reports were that 6 […]
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By Eddie Pells, AP Some of the newest incarnations of fantasy football look a lot more like gambling than intricate, outsmart-your-opponent strategy games. Since 2011, the billion-dollar fantasy market has been infused with dozens of daily and weekly games. Those games allow players to win huge prizes quickly, sometimes in one week, sometimes in just […]
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By David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter Imagine that Cate Blanchett’s “Blue Jasmine” character had been evicted from her bubble of complacent privilege not by calamity and public humiliation but by the veil of melancholy that descends with fraying family bonds and the encroaching awareness that the sun is setting on life’s most joyous moments. That more […]
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