By Elizabeth Campbell and Megan Durisin, Bloomberg Near the confluence of the Merced and San Joaquin rivers, the heart of the California farm belt, Bob Kelley watches the driest year ever erode water supplies and prospects for the dairy business his family began in 1910. The amount of water available for the 2,800 acres of […]
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Despite the lackluster performance of Stateline casinos in December, overall Nevada gaming numbers are up. The state Gaming Control Board on Friday said December casino winnings were 9.6 percent more than they were in 2012. Revenues were $1.034 billion, while a year ago the take was $943 million. Stateline numbers dropped 25 percent year-over-year to […]
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By Dale Kasler, Sacramento Bee Developers and environmentalists said Thursday they have settled a lawsuit that blocked a major redevelopment of Homewood Mountain Resort. The settlement means the project, which will cost $400 million to $500 million, will break ground in spring 2015, said Art Chapman of JMA Ventures, the owner of Homewood. The settlement […]
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By Marc Peruzzi, Outside I was a state college kid the first and only time I rode a snowboard. This was in the 1980s and snowboarding was still illegal at New Hampshire’s ski resorts. A classmate from New York City named after Dylan Thomas (and who called everybody he didn’t like a chucklehead) brought a […]
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By Paul Rogers, San Jose Mercury News As California’s drought deepens, 17 communities across the state are in danger of running out of water within 60 to 120 days, state officials said Tuesday. In some communities, wells are running dry. In others, reservoirs are nearly empty. Some have long-running problems that predate the drought. The […]
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Trees went into a power line on Tahoe Island Drive in South Lake Tahoe twice on Thursday. About 100 Liberty Utilities customers remained without power at 9pm after the second incident occurred at about 8:15pm Jan. 30. Both times the majority of customers were without power for about 30 minutes. People in the state streets, […]
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By Elliott D. Woods, Outside Sam Mansfield and Mark Ballas met in the autumn of 2012 when the two were visiting an investment property near Fort Benning, Georgia. Ballas, a former Army Special Forces soldier-turned-entrepreneur, had recently founded an adventure race called Green Beret Challenge, and Mansfield, a market researcher and consultant, had just started […]
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The Nevada Department of Public Safety, Office of Traffic Safety is urging Nevadans to not drink and drive on Super Bowl Sunday. Now through Feb. 9 more than 20 law enforcement agencies are participating in Joining Forces to target impaired drivers. Impaired driving messages are delivered year-round, yet when the Super Bowl celebrations begin, law […]
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Lake Tahoe Community College is having auditions for the Tony Award-winning musical “Man of La Mancha” on Feb. 3 at 7pm in the Duke Theatre. Callbacks will be Feb. 8 at 12:30pm. For its production, LTCC will be casting men and women of various ages and types. All of the roles are open, except for […]
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A layer of fresh snow cannot disguise the fact that the snowpack is in dismal shape. The second snow survey of the season on Jan. 30 revealed the snowpack water content statewide is at 12 percent of normal. This sets a record. Prior to Thursday, the lowest snowpack water content readings for this time of […]
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