By Frani Halperin, High Country News Sitting in a place they call the “mall” in the center of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory campus in Pasadena it’s shady and relaxing. Scientists confab at tables with umbrellas, sipping coffee, laptops open to graphs and charts. Jay Famiglietti, senior water scientist, is talking about NASA’s latest missions. The space […]
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Three South Tahoe High School teachers are being credited with putting the kibosh on a fire on campus this afternoon. The first day of school is often full of surprises, but this took it to a new level. “By the time we got there the active flame was suppressed. They did a pretty good […]
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· The 17-piece Reno Jazz Orchestra will be at Sand Harbor on Sept. 3 at 7:30pm. For tickets and more info, go online. · A Journey in Long Term Planning for Long Term: A frank discussion about the likelihood of needing long term care, documents to have in place and how to prepare them, and […]
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To the community, The South Shore area, including Meyers, has made great progress in developing bicycle access. The Sawmill Pond extensions are great examples. In my opinion the weakest link is Highway 89, Emerald Bay Road north from the Y to the very nice actual bike paths en route to Camp Rich. This section is […]
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By Sandra Chereb, Las Vegas Review-Journal CARSON CITY — A legislative subcommittee Friday declined to request a bill draft to mandate meters on all domestic wells in Nevada but agreed to seek authorization for the state engineer to restrict domestic well use when groundwater curtailments are ordered. State Engineer Jason King stressed that curtailment has […]
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By Larry Weitzman First with respect to the Santa Fe Sport is its classification. While it rides on a 106.3-inch wheelbase, which is 1 to 3 inches longer than the RAV4 and CR-V, it is a half an inch shorter than the Nissan Rouge and identical to the CX-5 wheelbase at 106.3 inches. But Santa […]
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By Ben Margiott, KRNV-TV Lake Tahoe is known for its unbelievably blue water, first-class recreation and, if a local entrepreneur has his way, will one day be known for its tech startup scene. That’s one of the goals of Elevate Blue, a startup incubator in Incline Village launched in October 2015 by Jameson Stafford. Since […]
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By Steven Church, Bloomberg Caesars Entertainment Corp. tumbled the most in more than a year after a judge ruled that the casino company must face bondholder lawsuits that could force it into bankruptcy alongside its main operating unit. The shares fell 15 percent to $6.37 this morning in New York, and dropped as much as […]
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Squishy is a very large boy. Our best guess is that he is some sort of Mastiff mixed with Lab mixed with shepherd mixed with Great Dane. He is very shy when first meeting people, but he is quite affectionate once he gets to know them. He likes dogs of all sizes and didn’t chase […]
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By Tom Lotshaw Restoring Lake Tahoe’s environment is no small feat. Tahoe is one of the world’s deepest, largest, and clearest mountain lakes, holding about 39 trillion gallons of famously blue water any given day—water that takes hundreds of years to flow through the lake and out the Truckee River. And long before any environmental […]
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