By Bryce Sanders, San Francisco Business Times Successful people often enlist the services of a financial advisor. Some seek minimal advice, others collaborate, and some outsource the process. If an investor makes his or her own decisions and desires minimal advice, paying a financial planner by the hour and walking away with a roadmap is […]
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By Julia Lurie, Mother Jones Here’s a kind of crazy stat: Between thirty and forty percent of California’s forest firefighters are state prison inmates. The state has become a tinder box of sorts from a four-year drought, and roughly 4,000 low-level felons are on the front lines of the state’s active fires. Here’s what’s going […]
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A Kings Beach man was arrested Aug. 13 on felony car theft charges. Washoe County sheriff’s deputies said they saw Matthew Leaton Foster, 45, spray painting a vehicle in the Damonte Ranch Walmart parking lot in Reno about 6am Thursday. The vehicle had been stolen earlier that morning from Incline Village. Foster faces felony charges […]
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By Rong-Gong Lin II, Los Angeles Times The strengthening El Niño in the Pacific Ocean has the potential to become one of the most powerful on record, as warming ocean waters surge toward the Americas, setting up a pattern that could bring once-in-a-generation storms this winter to drought-parched California. The National Weather Service’s Climate Prediction […]
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An Alpine County creek is going to be chemically treated later this month to help establish the native Paiute cutthroat trout. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S Forest Service, and California Department of Fish and Wildlife plan to use rotenone, a fish toxicant, in 11 miles of Silver King Creek and its tributaries from […]
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By Associated Press A man living in Nevada but wanted for several months in Utah on charges of fraud has been arrested. Sgt. Pat Brooks of the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office said Mark Neuhaus was arrested last weekend and remained in custody in Nevada. The 60-year-old called police to report suspicious people at his home […]
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By Kate Siber, High Country News All morning, I’d heard the roar of sloughs rocketing down cliffs as I skied up a mountain in Prince William Sound, Alaska. Now, standing at the summit with my six friends and our two guides, I gazed over treeless sheets of white plunging to the inky ocean. A virgin […]
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By Reno Gazette-Journal A Carson City Sheriff’s deputy was killed during a confrontation with a suspect early Saturday morning, the Carson City Sheriff’s Department announced in a news release. At 2:18am, deputies responded to a report of a domestic battery involving physical injury at the 4100 block of Montez Drive. A woman was found at […]
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Washoe Lake State Park is partnering with the Nevada Department of Wildlife to host a kids’ carp fishing derby. Prizes will be awarded for the largest carp caught in different age categories. The event is Aug. 22 from 8am-noon. Participants are requested to bring their own tackle. A limited number of rods are available for […]
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· Lake Valley fire’s Brush 7 crew, above, being filmed by the media at the Jerusalem Fire. They are part of the El Dorado County Strike Team. · Tahoe Area Sierra Club’s annual garden party and fundraiser at Aspen Hollow Nursery in South Lake Tahoe is Sept. 20 from 4-7pm. · […]
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