By Guy Marzorati, KQED-TV Gov. Jerry Brown and Democratic leaders in the Senate and Assembly have reached a deal on a $4 billion bond measure to fund affordable housing in the state. The measure addresses one cause of California’s affordable housing crisis: a lack of state funding to construct homes for low-income residents. Senate Bill […]
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A boulder came tumbling down on Highway 28 this morning, striking a vehicle in its path. The driver was taken to Renown Medical Center in Reno with non-life threatening injuries. The accident occurred about 6:30am on Aug. 29. It was about two miles north of the intersection with Highway 50. Highway 28 was closed while […]
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A Bay Area man died Saturday in an ATV accident in Homewood. The 30-year-old man, whose name has not been released, was riding the all-terrain vehicle on Forest Road 24 north of Sugar Pine Road when he failed to negotiate a curve, according to the California Highway Patrol. The ATV left the road and hit […]
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By Kathryn Reed Figuring out how to make the water near the shore as consistency clear as it is in the middle of Lake Tahoe is confounding scientists. Part of the problem is the limited historical data there is to work with. While scientists for decades have been studying the overall lake clarity issue, the […]
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By Ted Gaines To watch the news is to imagine a politically-obsessed America pulling apart at the seams, with opponents mobbing up and attacking each other at every turn and the two parties and their talking head proxies endlessly screaming at each other about the real meaning of President Trump’s tweets. It’s a phony picture. […]
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By Clarice Silber, AP PHOENIX — The federal government announced this month it will eliminate a policy that allowed national parks like Yosemite to ban the sale of bottled water in an effort to curb litter. The National Park Service said in a statement it made the decision to “expand hydration options for recreationalists, hikers, […]
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An 18-year-old cyclist was severely injured Monday night when he was hit by a vehicle on Pioneer Trail in South Lake Tahoe. The man was airlifted to Renown Medical Center in Reno with severe traumatic injuries, according to the South Tahoe firefighters. The Aug. 28 accident occurred at dusk near the intersection of Shepherds Drive. […]
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By Sean Whaley, Las Vegas Review-Journal With the passage of Senate Bill 270 in the 2017 legislative session, the state Division of Water Resources must get proof of ownership from Nevadans with water rights that predate state statutes. Failure to submit the required proof will result in the vested water rights being deemed abandoned. But […]
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By Moonshine Ink They came from the San Fernando Valley, the Bay Area, the beaches of Santa Barbara and the Sacramento Valley. Many were ex-collegiate level athletes that mostly came to Lake Tahoe to swing hammers in the summer months to help with the area’s building boom of the 1970s. Some came to work and […]
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By Paul Harasim, Las Vegas Review-Journal Nevada’s Medicaid program, caught in the political crossfire over rising health-care costs, is far different than the limited federal-state health insurance partnership for the “deserving poor” that President Lyndon Johnson unveiled in 1965. As documented in the first installment of the Review-Journal’s Hard Medicine series, Nevada has a lot […]
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