By Ryan Sabalow, Dale Kasler and Phillip Reese, Sacramento Bee This year was supposed to be different. With Northern California’s reservoirs finally brimming and cities liberated from stringent conservation rules, farmers were expecting more water for their crops. The worst of the drought seemed over. Or maybe not. Despite a winter of fairly abundant rain […]
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By Tony Berendsen On the night of June 2, Saturn was at opposition to the Earth. There was no sound or rumbling of the ground to announce the event, but for astronomers there was signal of light. Opposition happens when one planet is opposite another relative to the sun. It happens to the Earth and […]
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By Ian Whitaker, Las Vegas Sun Around this time last year, Nevada’s new Common Core test had only succeeded at being broken. Due to the testing company’s technical problems, schools were thrown into chaos for weeks as teachers and staff struggled to get the computer-based Smarter Balanced test to work for the thousands of third- […]
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Registration to compete in the 4oth annual World’s Gold Panning Championship is available online for experienced and novice panners. The Olympics of Gold Panning will take place in Placerville, just miles from where the California Gold Rush began, during a countywide, weeklong celebration Sept. 11-18. Competitors from all over the world will be participating at […]
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· BlueGo is offering free bus rides on routes 50 and 53 every weekend through Labor Day. For more info, go online. · Tahoe City is having a Solstice Festival June 17-19. For more info, go online. · Girl Scout Troop No. 143 gave Bread & Broth 4 Kids a $250 gift card for food […]
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By Kate Siber, Outdoor On May 24, 2015, at 3am., filmmaker Ben Canales sat on a ridge overlooking the gleaming lights of Telluride, Colo. One by one, blocks of streetlamps winked off far below. Canales had convinced many residents to turn off their lights as part of a special event during Mountainfilm, the annual outdoors-focused […]
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Lake Tahoe Windjammers Yacht Club is offering sailing skills clinic on July 16. The first part of the day will be classroom instruction, with an optional on-the-water lesson. No prior experience necessary, but those who have sailed before are invited, too. Preregistration is required because space is limited. The cost is $35 for WYC members, $45 for others. The […]
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By Bethany Barnes, Las Vegas Review-Journal Nevada Legislature staffers last year quietly supported a bill that helped them win a legal battle to keep the state’s Ethics Commission from investigating legislators. The new law flew under the radar as an “emergency measure” in the final days of the 2015 session and passed with little scrutiny. […]
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By Reuters Organizers of Burning Man, an annual counter-culture festival that climaxes with the burning of a wooden effigy in the Nevada desert, has bought a ranch in the southwestern state to run year round art and self expression activities, the group said on Friday. Funded by donations from supporters, Burning Man paid $6.5 million […]
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By Kathryn Reed Term limits guaranteed the lake would have new representation on the Douglas County School District board. Voters had the choice of three men; now it’s down to two in November. CPA Keith Byer of Glenbrook and retired teacher Michael Kiger of Stateline were the top vote getters June 14, with businessman Nicholas […]
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