By Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazette-Journal Nevada lawmakers sought answers from a high ranking public land manager on everything from wild horses to wilderness study areas. John Ruhs, Nevada state director for the Bureau of Land Management, testified Tuesday before a join committee of the Legislature’s natural resources committee. Ruhs’ appearance before the Legislature was a […]
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By Ryan Sabalow and Phillip Reese, Sacramento Bee While a nearly record-breaking rainy season has battered California’s dams and stretched the limits of local levees, the storms that began to hit Sacramento on Tuesday aren’t expected to put much additional strain on the state’s flood-control system. Spanning into next week, the storms are expected to […]
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Publisher’s note: This is one in a series of stories about affordable housing in the Lake Tahoe-Truckee region. All articles may be accessed via the home page under Special Projects, 2017 Affordable Housing. By Kathryn Reed Tackling the South Shore housing crisis from as many fronts as possible is the goal of Progress for Tahoe. […]
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By Todd Prince, Las Vegas Review-Journal Backing up about 100 feet from the California border near the Fashion Outlet in Primm, Nev., a reporter is finally able to log into the World Series of Poker application on an iPhone. The reporter is here to test the accuracy of the geolocation service used by the poker […]
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By Eben Novy-Williams, Bloomberg When Brooks Entwistle, a partner at Everstone Group in Singapore, climbed the sixth-tallest mountain in the world, the 26,8000-foot-tall Cho Oyu, he didn’t take the typical seven weeks. He took three weeks off and sandwiched the 17-day ascent between a board meeting and a parent-teacher conference. That timeframe was unheard of in guided […]
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Updated 9:45am: By Kathryn Reed The nearly 10-year-old artificial turf field at South Tahoe Middle School is substandard and the manufacture knew this at the time of sale, according to a lawsuit. Lake Tahoe Unified School District is suing FieldTurf for breach of contract. According to court documents, “Between 2005 and 2012, FieldTurf sold and […]
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By Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times California lawmakers have introduced more than 130 bills this year that try to tackle the state’s housing affordability crisis. Reams of statistics support the depth of the problem: California’s homeownership rate is at its lowest since World War II, a third of renters spend more than half of […]
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By Jason Daley, Sierra Over the course of millions of years, environmental pressures push species to adapt, leading to a new tail shape, a striped color scheme, or a taste for eucalyptus leaves. But in the last couple decades, researchers have found that evolution isn’t just a slow invisible hand molding dinosaurs into birds. “Contemporary […]
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By Kathryn Reed Flip a switch and the lights go on. In the 21st century in the United States we expect that same outcome every time. But the reality is there are circumstances beyond the supplier’s control that cause the power to go out. Weather is the No. 1 reason Liberty Utilities customers find themselves […]
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By Kathryn Reed The link between food and health was underscored this month in a nutrition presentation before the South Lake Tahoe City Council. Registered dietician June Denney promoted a plant-based diet in her talk with physician Greg Bergner. Her message was that food can cause and prevent disease. Citing the 2015 Global Burden of […]
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