By Judy Lin, Los Angeles Times More than 20 times in the last 15 years, political leaders looking to control California’s fast-growing public pension costs have tried to put reform initiatives before the voters. None of the proposals has made it onto the ballot. Often, advocates could not raise enough money for signature gathering, advertising […]
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By Susan Wood Family traditions mean the world to Lori Barra, a Truckee woman who’s pouring her heart into her family’s wine business. When she’s not helping travelers fly the friendly skies at the United Airlines ticket counter at the Reno-Tahoe International Airport, Barra, 61, is marketing her family’s Mia Bea varietals. Created from a […]
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By Mark McLaughlin, Tahoe Weekly There’s been a lot of talk about weather records being broken this winter, but it was only January’s epic snowfall totals that have made it into the record books so far. In January 2017, the Central Sierra Snow Lab near Donner Pass and many Tahoe Sierra resorts set new monthly […]
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By Bettina Boxall, Los Angeles Times Startlingly green hills, surging rivers and the snow-wrapped Sierra Nevada had already signaled what Gov. Jerry Brown made official on Friday: The long California drought is over. “This drought emergency is over, but the next drought could be around the corner,” Brown said in a statement. “Conservation must […]
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By Kathryn Reed It’s coming, and may arrive with a vengeance. We’re talking about allergy season. “The wet weather will bring a lot more vigorous plant growth, which means more pollen and more allergies,” Ronald Roth, otolaryngologist at Barton Ear, Nose & Throat, told Lake Tahoe News. The one good thing about all the snow […]
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By Colton Lochhead and Nicole Raz, Las Vegas Review-Journal Following in the footsteps of Colorado, Washington and other states which have legalized recreational marijuana, Nevada is bracing for an influx of cash — cash that will have no bank to call home. Because federal law prohibits banks and credit unions from depositing marijuana money, the […]
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By Angela Hart, Sacramento Bee A Santa Monica lawmaker is preparing to battle California’s powerful real estate industry, going after a state law that for two decades has blocked cities from adopting stronger rent control measures. A report released this year by California housing officials indicated the state’s housing crisis is unprecedented. So Democratic Assemblyman […]
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By Taylor Kate Brown, BBC News At the height of California’s multi-year drought, Rafael Surmay’s well – the only source of water to his house – went dry. For two and a half years, Surmay, his wife, and his four children showered, cleaned, drank and cooked using a water tank and 10 gallons of bottled […]
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By Jenny Kane, Reno Gazette-Journal Gagan Singh rolled a “fat blunt” before he hit the slopes at Lake Tahoe on a sunny Wednesday morning. By the end of the day, he needed a refill, so he drove to Reno and stopped at one of the local medical marijuana dispensaries. With his Patagonia jacket and bleached-blond man-bun, […]
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By Kathryn Reed With more money rolling in than originally planned for this fiscal year, the South Lake Tahoe City Council on Tuesday opted to invest in the city and its employees. The city has $721,000 more in tax revenue than anticipated from when the 2016-17 budget was approved in the fall. Hotel, sales and […]
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