Construction on the Highway 89-Fanny Bridge Community Revitalization Project in Tahoe City is expected to start May 1, with completion later this year. The Central Federal Lands Highway Division of the Federal Highway Administration is the lead agency for construction, with Martin Brothers Construction doing the work. The project includes realignment of the highway, a […]
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After hearing two proposals for redeveloping the Tahoe City firehouse properties near Commons Beach in Tahoe City, the Placer County Board of Supervisors last week directed staff to further study the financial and development feasibility of the ideas. The county-owned Tahoe City firehouse properties include the former North Tahoe Fire Station 51, Tahoe Community Center […]
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By Associated Press The late winter storms that helped bolster Nevada’s lagging snowpack also jump started the growth of grasses and brush that potentially could fuel another big wildfire season. “I hate to use the term ‘worst-case scenario,’ but it’s kind of leading into another potentially very active fire season,” National Weather Service meteorologist Chris […]
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By Jenny Kane, Reno Gazette-Journal The unapologetic, silver haired, Marlboro-loving eccentric credited with creating Burning Man, now a 68,000-person arts celebration held in the middle of the Northern Nevada desert, died Saturday morning. He was 70. Harvey suffered a massive stroke on April 4 in San Francisco. He was since in critical condition at a Bay Area […]
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By Sage Sauerbrey, Moonshine Ink Short-term rentals have rapidly become a polarizing topic. While property rights advocates argue for the freedom to utilize their homes as assets and housing advocates point to a decline in long term rental inventory being a result, the local jurisdictions are caught in the crossfire and have thus far been […]
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By Prentiss A. Dantzler, The Conversation In the midst of riots in 1968 after civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was slain, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Fair Housing Act. The federal legislation addressed one of the bitterest aspects of racism in the U.S.: segregated housing. It prohibited discrimination on the basis of […]
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Placer County staff will host three drop-in meetings in May to answer questions about rules for cannabis cultivation, and the county’s compliance and enforcement process. Placer’s cannabis ordinance, allowing limited cultivation for personal use only, became effective in January 2017. It allows cultivation of up to six non-medical plants on 50 square feet or cultivation […]
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By Ian Evans, Water Deeply The most significant reservoirs in the West are not stored behind concrete dams, but on top of mountains as snowpack. This year, however, snowpack has been alarmingly low throughout most of the West. “If you look at the overall flow of the Colorado River – at Lake Powell, the main […]
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By Agnieszka de Sousa and Hayley Warren, Bloomberg The world’s dinner tables are seeing the impact of climate change. As cold regions become warmer, and warm places hotter still, farming and fishing are shifting. An evolving climate means big changes for people who grow, catch and rear for a living, and everyone else who buys […]
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By Cheryl Dybas, National Science Foundation There are too many trees in Sierra Nevada forests, say scientists affiliated with the National Science Foundation Southern Sierra Critical Zone Observatory. That may come as a surprise to those who see dense, verdant forests as signs of a healthy environment. After all, green is good, right? Not necessarily. […]
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