By Michael Rios, PBS News Hour Two straight months of heavy rainfall have effectively ended five straight years of drought in California. But with parts of the state reporting more than 100 inches of precipitation since last fall, the rain activity has also caused floods, road closures, infrastructure damage and evacuations in many areas. As […]
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By Kathryn Reed With 1,800 vertical feet to ride and features built into the environment, no wonder Waterhouse is such a popular destination for skiers and snowboarders. Even better for them it’s not much of a hike from the vehicle to where the climb begins. The eight of us (four humans, four canines) aren’t into […]
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By Scott Sonner, AP Sierra Club lawyers who’ve preached against the environmental evils of coal-burning power plants for decades are trying to force the closure of the last significant one in renewable energy-rich Nevada with arguments based on a different sort of green: money. “It used to be that we had to come in and […]
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By Gary Martin, Las Vegas Review-Journal A $1.1 trillion budget blueprint by President Trump that includes a revival of Yucca Mountain as a repository for nuclear waste was declared “dead on arrival” Thursday by Nevada’s two U.S. senators. And Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval, a Republican, said opposition in the state to the proposal would be […]
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By Kathryn Reed TAHOE CITY – Killing aquatic invasive weeds in Lake Tahoe with ultraviolet C light will be tried for the first time this summer. The California Tahoe Conservancy board on March 16 agreed to spend $260,128 on the pilot project in South Lake Tahoe. The money was awarded to the Tahoe Resource Conservation […]
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By Amy Graff, San Francisco Chronicle The depressing scene of boat docks sitting high and dry on wide beaches around Lake Tahoe will likely be a fleeting memory this summer. Winter’s unrelenting storms built up a substantial Sierra snowpack and are expected to fill the lake for the first time in 11 years. Lake Tahoe’s […]
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By Evan Halper and Sarah D. Wire, Tribune Washington Bureau President Trump’s budget would deliver a painful financial blow to California, with the potential to push a state that has struggled for years to keep its books balanced back into the kind of red ink that consumed it after the housing market collapse a […]
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By Matt Levin, CalMatters Lifelong Californian Lori Thompson is well aware of the state’s dire affordable housing problem. She’s just wondering why she’s the one who has to pay to fix it. After her daughter moved to Reno to escape high rents in the Monterey Peninsula, Thompson and her husband decided last December to purchase […]
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By Kathryn Reed TAHOE CITY – Days after South Lake Tahoe officials were celebrating the acquisition of the Knights Inn property, the Champagne has gone flat thanks to the California Tahoe Conservancy board. The city was back before the state board on March 16 to finalize its request to obtain grant dollars that would fund […]
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By Sage Sauerbrey, Moonshine Ink Ski communities seem to have an especially strong inclination for nostalgia. I grew up with my parents’ tales of my home mountain during the ’80s when the powder stayed fresh for days and getting duct-taped to the local bar was a common occurrence. Lift tickets were less than $50, and […]
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