By David Siders, Sacramento Bee LE BOURGET, France — Gov. Jerry Brown said Saturday that “wide open” gun laws in Nevada and Arizona are a “gigantic back door through which any terrorist can walk,” while he was noncommittal on efforts to strengthen gun control measures in California. Brown, arriving in France for climate talks after the […]
Read more
By Kathryn Reed Changes to Heavenly Mountain Resort that are expected to be ready for the 2016-17 ski season are mostly based on what skiers have requested. The resort wants to: · Build a permanent 300-square-foot ticket sales kiosk adjacent to the Bear Cave Ski School near Tamarack Lodge; · Relocate the Red Fir handle […]
Read more
North Lake Tahoe and Tahoe Douglas fire protection districts, the Nevada Division of Forestry and the U.S. Forest Service will continue widespread prescribed fire operations beginning the week of Dec. 7. Operations on the North Shore may take place on the west side of Incline Village and in Carnelian Bay. On the South Shore, off […]
Read more
· The trial for Gilbert Wetenkamp, who is accused of killing a bear on the South Shore in July, is scheduled to start Jan. 8 in El Dorado County Superior Court. · NCE, a civil and environmental engineering firm headquartered in Reno with regional offices located throughout California, received the PSMJ 2015 circle of excellence […]
Read more
By Daniel Rothberg, Las Vegas Sun It’s the season of drones, with experts estimating that shoppers will purchase as many as 400,000 small unmanned aerial vehicles during the 2015 holiday season. In the past year, retail drones have become increasingly available to consumers. But if you’re thinking about buying one for a family member or […]
Read more
By Heather Hansman, Outside In late September, a hiker in New Mexico’s Santa Fe National Forest encountered a shocking sight: a several-hundred-yard swath of felled trees on a hillside in the Pecos Wilderness. Whoever did it leveled off hundreds of englemann spruce and subalpine fir trees a few inches above the roots and left the […]
Read more
Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the Dec. 4 New York Times. All decent people feel sorrow and righteous fury about the latest slaughter of innocents, in California. Law enforcement and intelligence agencies are searching for motivations, including the vital question of how the murderers might have been connected to international terrorism. That is right […]
Read more
South Lake Tahoe Police Department is one of many law enforcement agencies across the U.S. that is planning to actively search for and arrest drunken drivers from Dec. 18 to Jan. 3. As part of the national Drive Sober or Get Pulled Over enforcement campaign period police, sheriff’s departments and the CHP will be deploying DUI […]
Read more
By Christopher Cadelago, Sacramento Bee With Californians staring down the prospect of a crowded ballot next fall, a poll finds 61 percent of likely voters believe there are too many propositions. At the same time, about the same percentage say they are satisfied with the way the initiative process is working, according to Public Policy […]
Read more
By USSA BEAVER CREEK, Colo. — Andrew Weibrecht (Lake Placid, N.Y.) reminded ski racing fans that he is still a threat in downhill, tying for fifth place after starting 34 at the Birds of Prey downhill. Travis Ganong (Squaw Valley) and Steven Nyman (Sundance, Utah) both grabbed top-15 spots, taking 12 and 15, respectively. The […]
Read more