By Rachel Axon, USA Today In 1995, the addition of snowboarding to the Olympics wouldn’t have foretold the mainstay the sport would become at the Games. Known for being counterculture, the sport was banned at many ski resorts. The X Games were a little more than a year away from holding its first winter edition. […]
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By Elliott Almond, Bay Area News Group They dismissed him as too tall. They said his size 15 feet were too big an obstacle. They told his parents it just couldn’t be done. But 6-foot-7 Bryce Bennett dreamed of growing into a top downhill ski racer anyway. “There’s a first time for everything,” he once […]
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A Carson City woman has been charged with four felonies related to the accident last summer near Cave Rock that killed a woman from Thailand. The preliminary hearing for Kimberly Ann Davis, 40, is scheduled for Feb. 15 in Douglas County. Charges include driving a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol causing death and […]
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A quick moving storm is set to blow through the region today into Monday. Expect temperatures to drop and snow to fall. Snow levels are likely to reach the Carson and Reno areas as well. The wind is expected to pick up before the moisture arrives in Tahoe. A lake wind advisory is in effect […]
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By Don Lane Four years after it was discovered in 1844 by explorer John Charles Fremont, the Lake Tahoe Basin saw an influx of people attracted to the 1848 discovery of gold nearby. Fortunately, there were few gold nuggets in the streams around the lake and the basin was largely left unchanged. However, just a […]
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Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the Feb. 5, 2018, Sacramento Bee. Given the huge sums California has spent staving off wildfires, curbing greenhouse gas and ensuring clean air and clean water, it is surprising that more attention hasn’t been paid to the one factor those challenges have in common: trees. California’s forests, and in […]
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By Pete Dulin Located in the northeastern corner of Kansas, Doniphan County’s eastern edge is shaped like a jigsaw puzzle piece, carved away by the flowing waters of the Missouri River. The soil is composed of deep, mineral-rich silty loess and limestone, making it ideal for farming—and, it turns out, for growing grapes and making […]
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By Adam Ashton, Sacramento Bee One of the state’s largest charter school organizations is exploring whether it wants to withdraw from CalPERS, raising alarms among unions and public pension officials who fear a gradual weakening of the fund. Aspire Public Schools, which operates 36 schools in California, opened talks with the California Public Employees’ Retirement […]
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By Kenneth Carter, The Conversation One of the main draws of the Winter Olympics is the opportunity to witness some of the most exciting and nail-biting athletic feats. The daring events include the bobsled and downhill skiing. Then there’s the terrifying skeleton: Imagine barreling down a narrow chute of twisted ice-coated concrete at 125 miles […]
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By Don Thompson, AP A man in the United States illegally was convicted Friday of killing two Northern California deputies in a case that helped fuel the national immigration debate. Luis Bracamontes was found guilty of murder in the shootings of Sacramento County sheriff’s Deputy Danny Oliver and Placer County sheriff’s Detective Michael Davis Jr. […]
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