By Tori Richards, U.S. News & World Report LOS ANGELES — People have long predicted that California could eventually collapse into the ocean following a mega earthquake. Now, an eerily similar true-life scenario is playing out — but it’s thanks to the weather. The Gold Rush State has sunk more than 45 feet since 1935 […]
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A program designed to motivate and help communities take action to lower their risk wildfire hazard in the Lake Tahoe Basin is being launched. The goal is to create a unified network of individuals who take responsibility and actions to reduce the wildfire risk in the Lake Tahoe Basin. Tahoe Resource Conservation District is partnering with […]
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By Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazette-Journal For some people getting first chair on Squaw Valley’s KT-22, one of skiing’s iconic lifts, is a bucket list moment. For Andy Melendes and Cheryl Varner it’s a near-daily occurrence. Fortunately for Melendes and Varner the 2015-16 season has turned out to be dreamier than any other, at least since […]
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By Scott Sonner, AP Rural Nevadans suing to block the Obama administration’s sage-grouse protections say a trail of internal government documents shows politics was the driving force behind a pre-determined policy that flies in the face of its experts’ own best science. Their latest motion filed in federal court in Reno seeks to void the […]
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By Nathan Halverson, Reveal Secret conversations between American diplomats show how a growing water crisis in the Middle East destabilized the region, helping spark civil wars in Syria and Yemen, and how those water shortages are spreading to the United States. Classified U.S. cables reviewed by Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting show a […]
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By Lake Tahoe News With the threat of a lawsuit from El Dorado County, the Cal-Tahoe Joint Powers Authority board this week voted to hire an attorney. The JPA is responsible for providing ambulance service to the California side of the South Shore. South Lake Tahoe and Lake Valley fire departments are the agencies of […]
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Whether the environmental impact statement for the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency’s Regional Plan update failed to analyze how the document negatively impacts soil conservation, water quality and air quality is at the heart of legal case that is in the hands of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Both sides of the lawsuit gave oral […]
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· Windjammers Yacht Club’s annual Chowder Feed and Membership Drive is April 16 at 6pm in the clubhouse above the harbormaster’s office in the Tahoe Keys Marina in South Lake Tahoe. Cost is $15. Social hour begins at 6pm, with dinner at 7pm. RSVP by April 13 to vicecommodorewyc@gmail.com. · Washoe County Sheriff’s Office is reviving […]
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By Kathryn Reed An El Dorado County Superior Court judge inadvertently limited South Lake Tahoe Councilwoman JoAnn Conner’s interaction with city staff. Judge Steve Bailey on April 12 said email is the only way Conner, when acting as a citizen and not an elected official, may contact any employee at the city. Prior to then […]
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By Joe Mathews Rent control won’t solve California’s enormous housing problems. But that’s not stopping Californians from pursuing rent control policies in their hometowns. 2016 threatens to become the Year of Rent Control, with the topic white-hot in the Bay Area, home to California’s most expensive housing. Rent control refers to laws that put limits […]
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