By Sage Sauerbrey, Moonshine Ink When the housing market crashed about a decade ago, one of the results was a trend toward downsizing. The phrase “tiny home” emerged, people scaled down to smaller homes, RVs became potential retirement properties, and an overall tendency toward living within or below one’s means began to take shape. Here […]
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By Kathryn Reed In five years, nearly one-quarter of South Lake Tahoe’s General Fund is expected to be allocated for retiree pensions. This doesn’t even include what goes out for health benefits, let alone current salaries. It’s normal for employees to be the No. 1 expense for public agencies. The amount though, is getting to […]
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By David R. Baker, San Francisco Chronicle For several years, officials in California and states throughout the West discussed merging control of their electricity grids to create one vast, integrated power market that would span the entire region. A unified grid, they reasoned, would be more efficient, keeping costs down. It could also help states […]
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By Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle You can hit launch mode on a rafting trip this summer and feel like you’re being shot out of a cannon. Light the fuse and stand back. As the rafting season gets under way, the outlook matches or exceeds the biggest water seasons in the past 30-plus years, including […]
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By Susan Wood MONTEREY – From the moment a guest enters the front lobby, waves of serenity and relaxation beckon. This is how one knows the power of place. In the case of staying at Monterey Tides, the 180-degree view of the crashing surf onto the beach just below makes it an ideal spot for […]
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By Matthew Renda, Tahoe Quarterly With Yosemite as its epicenter, the Sierra Nevada is unquestionably the mecca of rock climbing. Some argue the sport was born in the Sierra when John Muir performed an on-sight free solo of Cathedral Peak in Tuolumne Meadows in 1869. Muir’s climb, without the benefit of advanced planning or ropes, […]
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By Kathryn Reed SnowGlobe’s future in South Lake Tahoe is murky. Lake Tahoe Community College’s board of trustees on May 9 heard a recap about the 2016 music festival. Promoter Chad Donnelly asked to be able to talk to the board and give a presentation, so he did. The board is most concerned about protecting […]
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By Kathryn Reed A yellow jersey may have figuratively brought Katie Hall warmth, but she was literally shivering after riding for more than three hours to win stage two of the Amgen Tour of California. “It was definitely cold at the start. There were some flurries,” Ruth Winder, who earned the best young rider jersey, […]
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By Kat Kerlin, UC Davis News Service To outer space and the deep ocean, add “beneath the ice” to the list of rarely charted frontiers of science exploration. There have been very few expeditions where robots dived beneath polar ice shelves to characterize and measure them. UC Davis engineering Professor Alexander Forrest recently returned from […]
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By Katie O’Reilly, Sierra Noise pollution is typically considered an urban problem. However, new research shows that the invisible threat found in the din of human activity (also known as anthropogenic sound) is increasingly taking its toll on the natural world. A first-of-its-kind study, released last week from scientists at Colorado State University and the […]
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