• The 21st annual Great Lake Tahoe Sternwheeler Race between California’s Tahoe Queen and Nevada’s M.S. Dixie II is Aug. 31 at 10am. • Rubicon Trail users on Aug. 29 will experience temporary delays in accessing the trail in the area of the rest stop at Ellis Creek because of work on the Ellis Creek […]
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By Peter Andrey Smith, New York Times UNIONTOWN, Pa. — On a muggy Friday afternoon in a strip mall parking lot, as thunder echoed in the Alleghenies and cottonwood seeds floated on the breeze, Lee Stanish, 32, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Colorado Boulder, and Natalie Hull, 24, a lab manager, stepped out […]
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By Kathryn Reed A San Mateo man drowned at Sand Harbor after he fell off a borrowed standup paddleboard. Kenneth Campo, 42, was between 200 and 300 yards from shore to the right of the boat ramp on Aug. 23 about 3:45pm. Witnesses told authorities they heard him yell, fall and never surface. Someone on […]
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By Kyle Stock, Bloomberg Businessweek Apparently, the nicotine business never changes—with smoke or without. Big Tobacco fought government overseers for decades, but eventually traditional cigarettes became heavily regulated products. Now the Food and Drug Administration is working on a package of regulations for e-cigarettes devices, which vaporize liquid nicotine with heat, rather than burning it […]
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By Bettina Boxall, Los Angeles Times Standing on ridges miles away from the Rim Fire, John Buckley has traced the path of the huge Sierra Nevada blaze by watching fire clouds billowing above the Stanislaus National Forest. The view has been sobering. As the Rim blaze burns its way into the record books, Buckley thinks […]
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By Aaron Kinney, Bay Area News Group SACRAMENTO — A proposed law to prevent the needless killing of mountain lions by state wardens cleared the Legislature on Monday and now awaits the approval of Gov. Jerry Brown. The legislation by state Sen. Jerry Hill, D-San Mateo, would give California Department Fish and Wildlife wardens broader […]
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The Nevada Division of State Parks has a amount number of firewood available for public purchase. Approximately 50 permits will go on sale Sept. 14. The sale starts at 8am on the 1st floor of the Richard H. Bryan state office building, located at 901 South Stewart St. in Carson City. Permits are $50 per […]
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Updated 2:25pm: A dense smoke advisory is in effect for until 5pm Thursday for the greater Lake Tahoe area and the Carson Valley. The National Weather Service in Reno is discouraging people in the basin, Alpine, Douglas and northern Mono counties from outdoor activities. Visibility is expected to be less than 3 miles and the […]
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By Kathryn Reed What was going to be a protest during today’s El Dorado County Board of Supervisors is now expected to be more of an employee rally. This is because labor negotiations suddenly took a turn for the better on Monday. “We are cautiously optimistic we are going to be able to reach a […]
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By Kathryn Reed A knock on the door. It’s the police. Guns are drawn. You don’t know why. Your husband is hauled off to jail and then charged with a crime he didn’t commit. This is the basic formula for TV shows throughout time. But this scenario is not from the imagination of some scriptwriter. […]
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