To the community, I would suggest a volunteer docent program be implemented at the Taylor Creek area — Rainbow Trail during the fall season when the kokanee salmon spawn there and create a bear buffet. Visitors are blown away by the beauty and the idea of seeing our bears; they are just naive to bear […]
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Publisher’s note: This is one of several stories about mental health issues in the Lake Tahoe Basin that will be running through October. The other stories may be accessed from the Home page under Special Projects, then click on Mental Health. By Kathryn Reed It never goes away. That’s the reality of living with mental […]
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By Char Miller The trees are dying. The forests are not. This distinction is getting lost in all the angst over the tree die-off in the Sierra, coastal ranges and other forests of California. Players ranging from the U.S. Forest Service to CalFire to Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and other public officials are ignoring this key […]
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By Adam Ashton, Sacramento Bee Patsy Jardin is used to being in the know in the small Sierra County town where she worked for more than 30 years, sometimes as its only public employee. She understood that Loyalton had broken with the California Public Employees’ Retirement System three years ago. She just didn’t know that […]
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Truckee police officers are investigating a series of thefts that have occurred in the area in the past few weeks. Several unlocked commercial vehicles have been stolen from behind secured fences on private property and subsequently used in the commission of numerous thefts. TPD urges business owners to be vigilant in locking up their vehicles and […]
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By Michelle Rindels, AP The Nevada Supreme Court has ruled that the state’s voucher-style Education Savings Accounts — seen as the broadest school choice program in the country — have an unconstitutional funding mechanism and the program should remain blocked. Justices issued a 4-2 ruling on Thursday striking down the program — which has been […]
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Two Northern Nevada farms will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the animated classic “It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown” with custom Peanuts themed corn mazes. Lattin Farms in Fallon and the Lazy P farm in Winnemucca, are among nearly 100 farms selected for the honor. Lattin Farms built the first corn maze in Nevada in […]
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By Larry Weitzman Now in about its eighth generation, the Camry, which holds the title of the largest selling American made car in the U.S. (about 430,000 annually), is one of Toyota’s bread and butter vehicles. It has the reputation of being bullet-proof among its quality attributes. Having tested several recent models, it is understandable. […]
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Truckee police Officer Andrew Holbrook and Trax have been named the top narcotics competitor of the year by the Western States Police Canine Association. Holbrook and Trax competed in five of the six K-9 trials this year. They earned eight awards, including two overall first place finishes. Trax joined the Truckee Police Department in […]
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By Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazette-Journal Earlier this summer Jenna Yokoyama set out to plan a backpacking trip to northern Idaho. But before committing she wanted to know if non-white hikers would be safe in a region known as a hotbed for white supremacists. It was an important question for Yokoyama, 34, a Japanese-American and avid […]
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