By Dale Kasler, Sacramento Bee Higher crime rates and electric bills. Crops and laborers wilting in the sun. A new study says California’s economy is going to lose billions of dollars a year to climate change. But hey, it will be a picnic compared to states like Florida and Texas. The groundbreaking study, led by […]
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By Kathryn Reed The lack of bullet proof glass in the lobby of the South Lake Tahoe jail as well as in the administrative office of the juvenile treatment center are a concern. The adult facility had a full body scanner that was inoperable for more than a year. The youth facility doesn’t have one. […]
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By Yvonne Gonzalez, Las Vegas Sun Term limits have helped make the Nevada Legislature more diverse in the almost 20 years since they were implemented, though the higher turnover has come with some costs. Experts say term limits have brought in new faces but reduced institutional knowledge as veteran lawmakers are pushed out. They say […]
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By Carolyn Wilke, Sacramento Bee Californians have been bracing themselves for a drier future accompanying a warming climate. But research by scientists at the University of California, Riverside, suggests that the state may actually get wetter in the event of severe climate change. The study, published July 6 in Nature Communications, reports that more years […]
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By Kathryn Reed It’s always an interesting hike when you have to flag down a truck to ask where you are. And so it was late last month with Rosemary. We knew where we wanted to go. And we got there. We just didn’t know where we were when we went a little farther. We […]
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By Lawrence Lenhart, High Country News First things first: Coyote. When you read the word, how many syllables do you hear? Your answer, according to Dan Flores, author of Coyote America, may be “immediately diagnostic of a whole range of belief systems and values.” The ki-YOH-tee versus ki-yote divide is one of the best indicators […]
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By Ally Gravina, Moonshine Ink At the bottom of its beer and wine list, Pianeta, a 19-year-old Italian restaurant in downtown Truckee, presents diners with the option to buy a six-pack as a gratuity for the kitchen staff. When customers place the order, a ticket not only prints at the bar for accounting purposes, but […]
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By Susan Wood Come next May, the California Highway Patrol will have silenced its voice out of Truckee – moving the communications dispatch center to Chico. The move is part of a five-year infrastructure plan by former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to consolidate dispatch centers labeled PSAPs – Public Safety Answering Points. CHP manages 25 dispatch […]
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By Paul Rogers, Bay Area News Group TRUCKEE — A breathtaking landscape of Sierra Nevada meadows, forests and wetlands larger than San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park — located 20 miles north of Lake Tahoe — will be preserved from development under a $10 million deal that closed Friday. The Carpenter Valley is 1,317 acres, a […]
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By Jamie Wanzek, Moonshine Ink The Truckee River has returned with vigor. In addition to creating rare whitewater conditions and easing concerns about the recent drought, the raging cobalt flows have done up to $1 million worth of restoration work naturally, says David Lass, Trout Unlimited California field director. The estimate is largely based on […]
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