Updated 10:07pm: Power is off for thousands of people in the Lake Tahoe Basin and Carson Valley areas. “Road closures from flooding are hampering our crews’ efforts to get to the remaining outages in the Carson/Genoa/Gardnerville area,” NV Energy says on its website. In the Kingsbury Grade area of Stateline there are four outages affecting […]
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By Linda Fine Conaboy RENO – To some, the latest chapters in U.S. political history read like a catchy novel; to others, current changes are merely pulp fiction. These are attention-grabbing times no matter how one views the unfolding daily drama floating over the political landscape. In a conversation on Feb. 8 sponsored by the […]
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By Kathryn Reed The Upper Truckee River in South Lake Tahoe has reached flood stage, is expected to be higher than it was in January and could reach 1997 levels. “The Upper Truckee River changed course. It took the easiest way through the snow,” Jim Marino, South Lake Tahoe assistant public works director, told Lake […]
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By Paul Deanno, KPIX-TV It appears California has come out of the drought, with a fury. Atmospheric rivers, more commonly known as Pineapple Express storms, fueled by Hawaiian tropical waters, have pounded the Bay Area, and the state, with rain. But this is not new. Over 100 years ago California was in the same boat, […]
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By Kathryn Reed In the same week that much of Northern California, including the Lake Tahoe Basin, is contending with flooding, the State Water Resources Control Board said water conservation is necessary. South Tahoe PUD had voiced its disgust with this regulation prior to the Feb. 8 decision via a letter to the water board. […]
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By Kathryn Reed Five years is a milestone most cancer patients celebrate. It doesn’t mean the disease won’t come back, but it is a positive indicator. Chemo, radiation, surgery or some combination is usually the medical cure. Not so for Steve Kubby. He attributes reaching the five-year mark to cannabis cryogenic extract. This month the […]
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Updated 7:10pm By Kathryn Reed Access to Carson City from the South Shore via Spooner Summit is off-limits for an indeterminate amount of time because boulders keep falling onto Highway 50. Wednesday marked the third consecutive day boulders as large as a vehicle have come loose from the hillside. Nevada Department of Transportation officials are worried about […]
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By Debra J. Saunders, Las Vegas Review-Journal WASHINGTON — How big is the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals? The San-Francisco-based circuit is so big that it represents nine states, including Nevada, 20 percent of the U.S. population and 40 percent of the nation’s land mass. It’s so big that Congress has looked at bills […]
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By Sharon Bernstein, Reuters California leaders pushed back on Monday against President Trump’s claim that the state is “out of control,” pointing to its balanced budget and high jobs numbers in the latest dustup between the populist Republican and the progressive state. The state’s top Democrats called Trump cruel and his proposals unconstitutional after the […]
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Updated 4:18pm: By Lake Tahoe News Continued rain on snow is bringing the threat of flooding to areas in the Tahoe-Truckee region. For Tuesday there are flood, high wind and avalanche warnings in effect. A flood watch is in effect until 4am Feb. 8 for South Lake Tahoe, Truckee, Stateline, Incline Village, Bridgeport and Mammoth […]
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