By Kathryn Reed Gino DiMatteo thrust his arms in the air after the South Lake Tahoe City Council granted him permission to move his medical marijuana dispensary less than a block from where it is currently located. The city’s ordinance mandates the three collectives get the council’s blessing before being able to move. Had the […]
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By Jeff Delong, Reno Gazette-Journal Joe Ricci was worrying by January. Now he knows he’s in trouble. With drought conditions worsening day by day and the Carson River dropping steadily, the Dayton-area rancher expects he may be out of water in a couple of weeks or so. He’s still hoping to harvest one good crop […]
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By Gabe Gutierrez, NBC News ESTES PARK, Colo. — At Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado, rangers are seeing more than green this spring. They’re also noticing a little more gray. The average visitor to national parks is getting older. Cyclist John O’Malley, 61, of Summit County, Colo., has enjoyed the trails for almost half […]
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Recognizing that older people are increasingly remaining in their homes as they age, Elder Options has expanded services to the community by adding a handyman component to the Care Management and Home Care services already in place. Sample handyman services include outside yard clean up including weed eating, pruning, burning and mowing. Minor repairs can […]
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U.S. Forest Service fuels management crews are burning today near the corner of Al Tahoe Boulevard and Pioneer Trail in South Lake Tahoe. Residents and visitors can expect to see smoke from this prescribed fire project area on June 6. Forest Service staff will post road signs around areas affected by prescribed fire, and update […]
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By Jeff Delong, Reno Gazette-Journal Lake Tahoe likely reached its maximum level for the year Tuesday and will now start a steady drop in further evidence of a dry year. Nudged up incrementally by Monday’s rain and snow showers, Tahoe reached a level of 6,227.66 feet above sea level Tuesday. That’s probably as high as […]
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By Denver Business Journal Skier visits to Vail Resorts’ Colorado mountains were down 9 percent in the three months ended April 30 as the industry struggled with historically low snowfalls. Broomfield-based Vail Resorts reported the results for the third quarter of its fiscal year Wednesday. Skier visits were off by 12.4 percent for the company’s […]
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By Dale Kasler, Sacramento Bee Raley’s union workers have voted to authorize a strike, the union and the company said today. With the company’s contract with the United and Food and Commercial Workers scheduled to expire tonight, the vote brings the two sides closer than ever to a walkout, which would be the first in […]
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The California parolee who was believed to have been in Douglas County is in jail. Randy Nourse turned himself into Douglas County deputies on June 6 at 6:45am at the Minden office. Nourse was previously reported as a fugitive from justice by California’s Department of Parole and Probation. Nourse will remain in the Douglas County […]
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By Denny Walsh, Sacramento Bee Kelly J. Michael was an enemy of the United States in the war on marijuana for more than two years. He was found in April 2010 by a U.S. Forest Service sleuth in the Eldorado National Forest with less than one-eighth of an ounce of pot in a jar. Nearby […]
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