By Diana Marcum, Los Angeles Times YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK — Each afternoon the fire’s thunderous plume rose. At night, helicopter crews at the Crane Flat lookout watched a line of orange burning across the horizon. The line kept drawing closer. By the last week of August, every effort to halt the Rim fire before it […]
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Winston is a 5-year-old, 12-pound poodle who does not shed. He is playful and fun, and loves to play with people and other dogs. He will chase cats who run, but he doesn’t know what to do when he catches up to them. He would be fine around confident cats. Winston has been in shelters […]
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By Jane Braxton Little, Sacramento Bee SUSANVILLE – Dyer Mountain, the site of a planned, controversial four-season resort near Lake Almanor since 1999, is instead heading toward a future of timber production and harvesting. Federal Bankruptcy Judge Thomas E. Carlson approved the sale of 7,000 acres proposed for development to Sierra Pacific Industries, an Anderson-based […]
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An Australian and a Swede won the inaugural Ironman Lake Tahoe on Sunday. Chris McDonald earned his sixth Ironman crown with a finish time of 8:55:14, while Asa Lundstrom earned her second title with a time of 9:58:53. Both the men’s and women’s pro races were not determined until late in the race. While the […]
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By Kathryn Reed Anyone who has tried to grow produce in the Lake Tahoe Basin has at least one story of failure to tell. But if gardening advocates have their way, more positive stories are about to be told. “The whole purpose is to teach how to grow in an alpine environment,” Gerri Grego told […]
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By Nancy Graalman A growing coalition of statewide and Lake Tahoe preservation interests, intensifying voices from environmental scientists and economists, and – significantly – a recent court ruling are merging to heighten skepticism over the position of California’s State Parks Department that the only way to mend the Upper Truckee River is to downgrade South […]
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By Christopher Smart, Salt Lake Tribune Park City Mountain Resort won the latest round in its legal fight with Talisker Land Holdings LLC Wednesday and can argue that it had “first right of refusal” to buy ski terrain adjacent to the historic mining town that is now the subject of a lease dispute. Summit County’s […]
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By Richard Simon, Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON — In response to fires that have ravaged the West this year, the House on Friday approved a bill that would expand logging in national forests despite a White House veto threat. The measure, which would impose limits on environmental reviews to speed timber-cutting projects, was approved by […]
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By Robert D. Dávila, Sacramento Bee Roger Ramseier, a former Aerojet president who led the aerospace and defense contractor amid major industry downsizing after the end of the Cold War, died Sept. 13 of complications related to prostate cancer, his family said. He was 77. Mr. Ramseier, who grew up in Sacramento, spent his entire […]
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A five-year project to improve the Fallen Leaf Lake area could begin next spring. Approval for the U.S. Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit upgrades came last week. The project includes improving the Fallen Leaf Lake trail system, while reducing congestion and user conflict. Some of the user created trails will be eliminated. Upgrades […]
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