By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – Ships ablaze and sinking fast. Winning poker hands with only four cards showing. Fast, fun and competitive. These machines are part video game, part slot machine. It’s definitely interactive because they can’t be played alone. While they are considered skill-based, fast reaction time is the biggest asset to winning. And, […]
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By Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle From a perch above a boulder-strewn ravine, we peered with binoculars up canyon walls and across a steep jumble of rocks and dirt for endangered Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep. The arrival of spring in the high country is when Sierra bighorns feast on fresh, water-saturated forage in the front […]
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By Dale Kasler, Sacramento Bee Faced with a presidential administration that’s dialing back climate change policies, California is getting even more aggressive on battling greenhouse gases. Electric utilities in California already are working to generate half of their power through solar and other renewable energy sources by 2030, one of the most aggressive timetables […]
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By Kathryn Reed A bankruptcy judge in Reno may decide the future ownership of the strip of commercial space in South Lake Tahoe’s Bijou Center that houses a medical marijuana dispensary. Lawyers for Patty Olson want all agreements with Cody Bass to be terminated and for Bob Hassett to be the owner of the parcel. […]
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By Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazette-Journal Moisture from Nevada’s historically wet winter will tamp down wildfire risk during early summer months. But once the vegetation that’s turning much of the Silver State green dries out wildfires could be bigger than normal. That’s according to a wildland fire outlook from the National Interagency Fire Center. The outlook […]
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By Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazette-Journal A Nevada bear biologist who’s been subjected to heated online attacks is striking back in court. Carl Lackey, a biologist for the Nevada Department of Wildlife, filed a lawsuit claiming critics used Facebook in a “vicious and calculated effort to damage his reputation and jeopardize his employment.” The suit names […]
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Updated 11:54am By Kathryn Reed A grand jury has decided there is not enough evidence to indict a South Lake Tahoe police officer who fatally shot an unarmed man in June 2015. With that decision, it means the civil suit can proceed. “I am confident we will prevail,” attorney Dale Galipo, who is representing the […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe has the opportunity to raise more than $2.5 million a year that would be spent exclusively on roads. The City Council on Tuesday heard results from a March poll that was conducted by a consulting firm to gauge the likelihood of whether voters would approve a one-half percent sales […]
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By Seth A. Richardson, Reno Gazette-Journal Lawmakers got some good news on Monday when economic projections for the state anticipated $100 million more in revenue for the Nevada than previously expected. The Economic Forum, a nonpartisan group who analyzes and estimates how much money the state has to spend, projected $95.7 million more in state revenue […]
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By Kathryn Reed Get out the bug spray – mosquito season is likely to be pretty bad in the Tahoe-Truckee area. “I would definitely say that with a snowpack this year that is more typical of what winter up here should look like, that we are anticipating a more typical mosquito season, which will feel […]
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