By Kevin Fagan and Filipa Ioannou, San Francisco Chronicle After a hot weekend that saw wind-fanned wildfires lurch out of control and gobble up thousands of acres of trees and dozens of homes from Santa Barbara to Butte County, Monday’s respite in the weather was just that — a respite. California is now far ahead […]
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By Susan Wood STATELINE – Train’s lead singer Pat Monahan and company continued its special connection with Lake Tahoe Sunday night, adding the Harveys Outdoor Summer Concert Series on its latest tour – A Girl, A Bottle and A Boat. With Natasha Bedingfield and O.A.R. opening on the warm summer night, this was one of […]
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By Joshua Emerson Smith, San Diego Union-Tribune Wildfire season is getting longer and more intense, and both scientific and forestry experts foresee hotter and drier conditions that would significantly exacerbate the situation. State and local officials have in the last decade updated efforts to keep people and property safe from out-of-control conflagrations. This includes […]
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By Jason Alvarez, UC Merced Subalpine meadows are among the Sierra Nevada’s most enchantingly picturesque landscapes. These sparsely wooded, grassy expanses are home to plants and animals found nowhere else, and they play an important role in regulating the flow of water from the Sierra snowpack to the rest of the state. But these ecosystems may […]
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By Kathryn Reed The much anticipated vacation home rental study commissioned by South Lake Tahoe doesn’t say much that people didn’t already know. On July 11 the study titled Socioeconomic Impacts of Vacation Home Rentals in South Lake Tahoe will be the subject of a workshop by the City Council. The council will likely discuss […]
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By Brian K. Sullivan, Bloomberg Texas struggled through its driest year in history in 2011. Four years later was its wettest ever. The Mississippi River rose to all-time-high flood levels in 2011. In 2012, its second-lowest. After a five-year drought that made agricultural irrigation a political hot potato, Northern California experienced nearly double the normal […]
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By Henry Brean, Las Vegas Review-Journal More than 1.1 million public comments have poured in so far on the Trump administration’s review and possible rollback of national monuments in Nevada and elsewhere. Conservationists in the Silver State hope to push that number even higher in the closing days of the comment period. The Department of […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – Little girls don’t often dream of being on stage cut in half, or into nine pieces, or having their head on one side of the stage and their body on the other. This isn’t some macabre scene; it’s magic. Specifically, it’s the illusion of Rob Lake. He couldn’t do it […]
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By Arthur Kane, Las Vegas Review-Journal Nevada governments are using the underfunded state pension system to boost the income of public employees. The practice, which is legal but often based on decades-old or misused exemptions to the law, costs taxpayers at least $23 million a year in pension and salary, a Las Vegas Review-Journal investigation […]
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By Associated Press California’s emergency services director fired off a sharply worded letter to the U.S. Forest Service this week that said the agency had stiffed local governments $18 million for fighting wildfires on federal lands last year and raised the prospect the state may stop protecting national forests during blazes. “I cannot continue to […]
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