By Kathryn Reed TRUCKEE – The environment and economy are being altered as the climate changes. As rain replaces snow and the months when precipitation falls are more in the spring than winter, the Tahoe-Truckee area is going to have to adapt. People are going to recreate in different ways, which will impact the economy. […]
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By Ben Botkin, Las Vegas Review-Journal Environmental groups have pumped more than $3 million into Nevada elections, investing money in ads and a ground game that will get canvassers and volunteers out knocking on doors statewide. It’s a reflection in part of how climate change has become an increasingly visible issue, whether it’s drought-stricken farmland […]
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Keep the shorts out and have the fleece nearby; it’s going to be one of those wacky weather weeks in Tahoe. While the National Weather Service in Reno does not expect the basin or Truckee areas to hit a record high this week, it is going to be unseasonably warm. South Lake Tahoe is expected […]
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By Kathryn Reed Guests at Edgewood Lodge will be able to feel the cool water of Lake Tahoe without ever having to dip a toe into the lake. This is because developers are extending the in-take line used by Edgewood Water Company, routing that water through the hotel and then to the pumping station before […]
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By Megan Messerly, Las Vegas Sun Citizenship applications in Nevada were up 52 percent in the first six months of the year compared with the same period last year, according to data recently released by the federal government. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services reported that 6,303 permanent residents in Nevada applied to become citizens between […]
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By Megan Harrod, USSA Growing up minutes from Squaw Valley, Travis Ganong found himself in the Mighty Mites peewee program as a tyke. He devoured the opportunity. “Cliffs, chutes, pillow-lines, arcin’ turns down the Dog Leg! I couldn’t get enough,” he recalls. With his sisters showing the way, he got into the race program. He […]
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By Linda Fine Conaboy RENO – As Gloria Steinem, a diminutive figure clad in black and surprisingly glamorous for a woman of 82, glided onstage at UNR’S Nightingale Hall, the packed house erupted with noise, clapping loudly as they all rose as one body and awarded her a Nevada-style welcome fit for a queen. To […]
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By Richard N. Velotta, Las Vegas Review-Journal OLYMPIC VALLEY — An estimated 3.5 million Chinese tourists want to travel to the United States next year but may never get here because of regulatory issues, government red tape and airlines and airports that aren’t ready for them. The rush of international visitors is occurring at a […]
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By Lake Tahoe News The Tahoe Keys Property Owners Association is going forward with plans to use an herbicide to rid the canals of invasive species, Eurasian milfoil and curly leaf pondweed in particular. It will be up to the Lahontan Water Quality Control Board to issue the permit. In December 2011 the water board voted […]
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By Kathryn Reed The hose is full throttle and still the fire jumps along the wall. At one point it dances overhead on the ceiling like it wants to wrap its potentially deadly tentacles around those who want to kill it. It’s as though the fire is alive. Oxygen – it feeds off of it. The room goes […]
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