By Kathryn Reed KINGS BEACH – While the proximity to Granite Chief Wilderness Area has been a dominate argument for not building the gondola that would link Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows ski resorts, on Thursday neighbors raised the issue of the proposed avalanche control devices as another concern. Heather Beckman, senior planner for Placer […]
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By Wade Tyler Millward, Las Vegas Review-Journal Move over sagebrush, Nevada may have a new state flower. Recreational marijuana sales topped $41 million in March, the largest since legal sales began statewide in July. That translates into $7.09 million in tax revenue in March from marijuana, according to a state Department of Taxation release […]
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By Ian James, Desert Sun For 15 years, two NASA satellites revealed an unprecedented picture of movements in water around the Earth, tracking ice sheets melting, glaciers retreating, oceans rising and groundwater declining as humans drain aquifers. Now, NASA is carrying on the mission with the next generation of satellites that will monitor changes in the […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – Increasing the number of boats on Lake Tahoe and where they can dock once on the water are anticipated outcomes of the shoreline plan that is being considered by the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency. The Governing Board on May 23 received a presentation about the draft environmental impact statement. Comments […]
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By Carl Segerstrom, High Country News Ted Stroll, a bespectacled, balding, retired attorney whose remaining hair is short and white, doesn’t fit the stereotype of an extremist mountain biker. But his group, the Sustainable Trails Coalition, is challenging the mainstream mountain biking establishment by fighting to permit bikes in America’s wilderness areas. Stroll’s crusade has […]
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By Kellen Browning, Sacramento Bee As gas prices continue to rise nationwide – with California leading the way, at $3.71 per gallon – Americans are planning fewer and shorter road trips this summer, a recent survey found. Currently $2.93 per gallon on average in the U.S., gas prices are expected to rise to $2.95 by […]
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By Kathryn Reed With the acquisition of the 206-acre Johnson Meadow, 93 percent of the Upper Truckee watershed is now owned by public agencies. Tahoe Resource Conservation District in April closed on the South Lake Tahoe property. It roughly borders Lake Tahoe Airport, Highway 50, the Upper Truckee River on the Sierra Tract side, and […]
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Updated May 23, 9pm: By Kathryn Reed “It is 100 percent about commercials.” That is the reason Charter-Spectrum is telling customers Sacramento station KCRA is being removed from the lineup in the South Lake Tahoe area. Instead, people will have to get their programming from the NBC affiliate KRNV out of Reno. “Even though you […]
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By Sam Gross, Reno Gazette-Journal It’s been a week since Aaron Salazar was found battered and unconscious near railroad tracks in Truckee, California, and his family is no closer to understanding what happened to the 22-year-old student who was traveling by rail from Colorado to Oregon. Was he attacked? Was he thrown from the train? Was this […]
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By Kathryn Reed CAMP RICHARDSON — Saws and drills that look like they belong in woodshop, medication with no known benefits, prescriptions for maggots. This is what medical care was like in the 1800s. Bob LaPerriere, a retired medical doctor and historian, shared stories this month about life during the Gold Rush era in terms […]
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