By Bicycle Retailer and Industry News Interbike announced today that its 2018 show will be in Reno. The three-day trade show in Reno will be preceded by a two-day consumer festival at Northstar, followed by a day-and-a-half-long trade demo event at Northstar before moving inside for the trade-only show at the Reno-Sparks Convention Center. Interbike […]
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Publisher’s note: This is one in a series of stories about affordable housing in the Lake Tahoe-Truckee region. All articles may be accessed via the home page under Special Projects, 2017 Affordable Housing. By Kathryn Reed A few dozen South Lake Tahoe residents have been removed from their affordable housing units so more tourist accommodation […]
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By Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazette-Journal If fishing reports existed 250 million years ago they probably would have warned anglers to bring extra sturdy line to Northern Nevada. That’s because newly described fossil evidence shows the warm waters of the time were home to a toothy apex predator that chomped its prey like a modern shark. […]
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By Kathryn Reed In the last five years, 137 environmental projects have been initiated in the Lake Tahoe Basin, with 207 in the planning stage. They will cost $1.5 billion to implement, but only $670 million has been secured. This was some of the information delivered at last week’s Tahoe Regional Planning Agency Governing Board […]
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By Kathryn Reed Five years ago today one of the saddest and what turns out to be best things happened. My friend Joy died and her dog became a member of my family. When Joy was diagnosed with cancer the previous fall one of the first things she did was ensure AJ’s future. I tried […]
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By Andrea Thompson, Climate Central The West is ablaze as the summer wildfire season has gotten off to an intense start. More than 37,000 fires have burned more than 5.2 million acres nationally since the beginning of the year, with 47 large fires burning across nine states as of Friday. The relatively early activity is […]
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By Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazette-Journal A Tahoe-area wildlife activist is suing Nevada officials he says falsely accused him of domestic terrorism. The activist, Mark E. Smith, is suing the Nevada Department of Wildlife and several of its employees he says, “maliciously continue to make,” misrepresentations. Smith’s lawsuit targets wildlife biologist Carl Lackey, game division […]
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Updated 12:34pm: By Kathryn Reed Placer County has put itself further into debt by agreeing to give employees four years of raises. Supervisors on July 25 granted the more than 2,000 employees a 4 percent wage increase starting in August, a 3 percent increase in July 2018, 2 percent increase in 2019, and another 2 […]
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By Hudson Sangree, Sacramento Bee Sacramento home builders are trying to deal with a severe shortage of construction workers by training high school students in summer internships. They want the teens and their parents to consider the possibility that a construction career might be a good alternative to college, though that can require some convincing. […]
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By Lake Tahoe News It was hard to find a time when Kim Iliffe wasn’t on one of the six courts at Zephyr Cove Tennis Club in the last four days. The Mill Valley resident was the lone player entered in three events at the Tahoe Tennis Classic. She walked away the winner in two […]
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