By Paddy O’Connell, Adventure Journal “Hold my beer and watch this.” The famous last words of a redneck, as the joke goes. But, could “take my picture and post this” be the last words of millennial backcountry skiers and snowboarders? It would seem very possible. The latest human factor in avalanche terrain decision-making is the […]
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By Tony Bizjak, Sacramento Bee Placer County roads and highways are increasingly congested and local leaders say they don’t have enough money to provide traffic relief. After years of debate, they are asking voters on Nov. 8 to approve a half-cent sales tax increase to fund an estimated $1.6 billion of transportation improvements over the […]
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By Susan Wood CARSON CITY – If you don’t think wildland fire is on the back of Clear Creek residents’ minds, just look at road landmarks. One of which was just established on Highway 50 east of Spooner Summit where the Tahoe Douglas Fire Protection District, with its brethren, came out a few weeks ago […]
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By Laura Read, Moonshine Ink With the imminent arrival of the Truckee Roundhouse membership-based workshop, set to open at the Truckee Tahoe Airport Dec. 1, the region joins ranks with places around the world that offer work spaces where anyone can construct the projects of their imaginations. But Truckee Roundhouse isn’t the only local enterprise […]
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By Brad Branan, Sacramento Bee Some El Dorado County voters have inundated their elections office with calls after not receiving mail ballots for the Nov. 8 election. Registrar of Voters Bill Schultz said the problem lies with the U.S. Postal Service, since his office mailed the ballots Oct. 11-14. That means USPS has failed to […]
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By Kathryn Reed A helicopter ride isn’t anyone’s idea of a good way to end the ski day. But when minutes matter an air ambulance can be the difference between life and death. It’s a group effort to ensure injured skiers and riders get to a hospital as quickly as possible. “Our goal is skids […]
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By Marni Jameson, Orland Sentinel Is owning a second home all it’s cracked up to be? That’s the question I cast to my experience-wizened readers. And their resounding answer? A definitive sometimes. I am giving the reins over to my readers, who have shared their first-hand knowledge of second-home ownership. Here are their lessons from […]
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By Seth Borenstein, AP Federal forecasters predict this winter may paint the U.S. in stripes of different weather: Warmer and drier than normal in the south, and colder and wetter than usual in the far north. The National Weather Service winter outlook , issued Thursday, gets murky in the nation’s middle belt, with no particular […]
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By Kathryn Reed By the end of the 2020 construction season motorists should be driving over a new bridge near the top of Echo Summit and through a roundabout in Meyers. Caltrans on Thursday night spent a couple hours telling the more than 30 people at an informational meeting about the two projects. The bridge […]
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By Adam Nagourney, New York Times EAST PORTERVILLE — California slashed urban water use over 25 percent in the face of a punishing drought last year, exceeding a mandatory order issued by Gov. Jerry Brown and turning the state into a model of water conservation. Californians tore out lawns, cut back landscape watering and took shorter showers […]
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