By Kathryn Reed The dilapidated, graffiti-ridden, eye-sore of what once was a gas station in Meyers could be history this time next year. The building isn’t going anywhere – but it will undergo a major remodel. The former use is staying the same; only instead of a Beacon gas station it will be a Shell. […]
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By Agnel Philip, Elizabeth Sims, Jordan Houston and Rachel Konieczny, News21 WOLFFORTH, Texas – As many as 63 million people – nearly a fifth of the country – from rural Central California to the boroughs of New York City, were exposed to potentially unsafe water more than once during the past decade, according to a […]
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By Bailey Schulz, Las Vegas Review-Journal Experts disagree on exactly when Nevada will see self-driving cars, but state officials say policies are ready for their commercial debut. The Nevada Legislature passed a bill June 16 that allows for the testing and operations of fully autonomous vehicles, whenever they come onto the market. The bill also […]
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By Angela Hart, Sacramento Bee Democratic state lawmakers aiming to ease California’s housing shortage say they are focused on three bills they estimate would generate $20 billion for affordable housing development over the next five years and lead to 70,000 new low-income apartments. They acknowledge it won’t be enough to solve the state’s unprecedented housing […]
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By Kathryn Reed While the sky didn’t go dark in Lake Tahoe during the eclipse Monday, the light was muted and the temperature definitely dropped. “The main thing out here is everyone noticed the temperature dropped,” Bob Nielsen of South Lake Tahoe said while at Cove East. According to the National Weather Service in Reno, […]
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Afternoon thunderstorms in the region are keeping firefighters busy because of the lightning strikes. On Aug. 19 multiple fires reported. The Alpine View was off of Jacks Valley. It was out 45 minutes after being reported at 5:42pm. Ninety minutes later fire crews doused a fire near Grover Hot. A transformer blew up, knocking power […]
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Publisher’s note: This is one in a series of stories about affordable housing in the Lake Tahoe-Truckee region. All articles may be accessed via the home page under Special Projects, 2017 Affordable Housing. By Susan Wood There’s something extraordinary going on in the Lake Tahoe housing market when “The Guy from Tahoe” isn’t. Curtis Fong, […]
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A fire inside a house on Grizzly Mountain Drive in Meyers was able to be extinguished quickly on Sunday morning. Lake Valley firefighters were called out because neighbors saw smoke on Aug. 20. When they arrived at the residence the two occupants were putting out the fire. They had had a fire in the fireplace […]
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By Ken Ritter, AP Prison officials in Nevada drew immediate criticism Friday for proposing an untried three-drug combination for the scheduled Nov. 14 lethal injection of a twice-convicted murderer who says he wants his execution sentence carried out. The state has supplies of the sedative diazepam, the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl and the muscle paralytic […]
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By Catherine Ho, San Francisco Chronicle Covered California, the health insurance exchange created under the Affordable Care Act, will take the unprecedented step of offering insurance companies financial incentives, and guardrails, to encourage them to continue selling health plans through its program. The agency’s board on Thursday approved a proposal to allow insurers to raise […]
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