By Alexei Koseff, Sacramento Bee Early alumni of California’s community college transfer program are showing promising results for the 7-year-old law’s efforts to ease the path to a bachelor’s degree. Of a group of nearly 1,100 students who transferred to California State University in fall 2013 with the associate degree for transfer, 48 percent graduated […]
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By Sam Gross and Siobhan McAndrew, Reno Gazette-Journal Peter Cytanovic will start his senior year at UNR on Aug. 28. UNR and the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada referenced the First Amendment in defending Cytanovic, who will not be expelled and will keep a job on campus. Cytanovic was identified as a participant in […]
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By Paige Blankenbuehler, High Country News This month the Waste Management and Regulatory Oversight Subcommittee had a hearing to discuss the fate of Superfund, a program of the Environmental Protection Agency. The meeting comes one week after the Superfund task force, which was created by EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt in May, released its first report […]
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By Joann Eisenbrandt A judge has found portions of El Dorado County’s Measure E to be valid, while striking down others as unconstitutional. Measure E is the controversial voter-approved roads and land use ballot initiative from June 2016. The initiative passed by a slim margin last summer following a contentious fight over whether it would […]
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Vacation home rentals are expected to back on the South Lake Tahoe City Council agenda in September, which could bring even more changes to the controversial practice. Meetings have been taking place among both sides of the issue with select elected officials. Saturation and density are being looked at, which is new. Defining the size […]
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By Karl Puckett, Tree Source The harder we struggle against wildfires, the deeper we sink, like we’re in quicksand, says Mark Finney, research forester for the U.S Forest Service’s Rocky Mountain Research Station. “It’s called the fire paradox,” says Finney, a fire behavior expert based at the Missoula Fire Sciences Lab in Montana. “The more […]
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By Sean Whaley Las Vegas Review-Journal A district judge on Friday temporarily halted any effort by the Department of Taxation to license additional distributors of recreational marijuana other than liquor wholesalers. The order sought by the Independent Alcohol Distributors of Nevada was granted by District Judge James Todd Russell after he said the tax agency […]
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A man was stabbed early Sunday morning near the valet at Harrah’s Lake Tahoe. Douglas County sheriff’s investigators are looking for the person or people who committed the crime. The suspect is wanted on robbery, battery with a deadly weapon, and assault with a deadly weapon charges. He fled the scene. The victim was taken […]
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By Mike Wolterbeek UNR entomologist Andrew Nuss and biologist Dennis Mathew are looking for a way to stop the spread of mosquito-borne disease. The goal of their research is to identify key mosquito odorant receptors that govern mosquito host-preference for humans and to genetically modify those genes in order to create mosquito strains that avoid […]
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