By Kathryn Reed Track meets will again be able to be run at Whittell High School, possibly as soon as the 2017-18 school year. A donation of $2.5 million from the Lisa and Robert Maloff Endowment Fund is paying for the football field to be completely renovated as well as the track. The Douglas County […]
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By Henry I. Miller, Los Angeles Times Karma can be so cruel. Just think how many times anti-GMO activists have protested against the imaginary risks of food that has been genetically modified. Now a favorite snack of those same protesters, the sacred granola bar, has been found to pose an actual health risk. Anti-genetic engineering […]
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By Associated Press Data from the World Bank show that California’s economy was equivalent to the sixth largest in the world last year. The World Bank’s annual rankings of countries’ gross domestic products, released on Friday, confirm an analysis published last month by the California Department of Finance. The U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis reported […]
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· Here is the weekly Caltrans roadwork schedule for El Dorado-Tahoe. · There will be a meeting July 21 at 6:30pm in the Board of Supervisors’ room in Placerville about El Dorado County’s proposal to build a class I bike path from Missouri Flat Road to the town of El Dorado and a bike/pedestrian overcrossing […]
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By KOLO-TV A crash on Highway 140 north of Winnemucca killed two Bureau of Land Management firefighters and sent a third to a hospital Sunday. The driver of the BLM fire truck was 27-year-old Jacob O’Malley of Zephyr Cove, according to the BLM. The right front passenger was 22-year-old Will Hawkins of Reno. Both men […]
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By Sean Whaley, Las Vegas Review-Journal CARSON CITY — Some Nevadans are pushing the federal government to transfer more public acreage to state control, but history suggests past management of these lands by those entrusted with their care was mired in corruption. The current push for a transfer is underway because about 85 percent of […]
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By Jen Murphy, Wall Street Journal Professional climber Adrian Ballinger was in phenomenal shape when he left for an expedition to Mount Everest on April 6. When he got down from the mountain May 28, he was as frail as a 90-year-old man. A week later, at a rock-climbing gym back home in Squaw Valley, […]
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By Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle The question is, can you fix stupid? The answer is yes, according to the greatest director in the history of the national park service, Bill Mott. But you need a lot of people on board for the effort. The aftermath of the Fourth of July weekend shows there is […]
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By Daniel Rothberg, Las Vegas Sun A changing climate could increase the risk of large wildfires in states across the West, including Nevada, which has seen relatively mild wildfire activity in the past. That’s according to a report from nonprofit organization Climate Central, which expects Nevada will add 20 days of annual high wildfire potential […]
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Owners of the Cal Neva Lodge had visions of returning the Crystal Bay hotel-casino to its glory days. That’s not going to happen any time soon. With more than $27 million in debt, owner Criswell Radovan filed for bankruptcy in June. The St. Helena-based investment firm bought the property in April 2013. They closed it […]
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