STATELINE – Steph Curry understands what it is like to be a fan. The basketball star is nutty about golf, being a fan of Jordan Spieth’s. His wife just shake’s her head when he spends six hours on the couch watching it on TV. Where is he on a day off during the hoop season? […]
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By Scott Smith, AP CAMP NELSON — At the foot of a giant sequoia in California’s Sierra Nevada, two arborists stepped into harnesses then inched up ropes more than 20 stories into the dizzying canopy of a tree that survived thousands of years, enduring drought, wildfire and disease. There, the arborists clipped off tips of […]
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By Tom Randall, Bloomberg Last month wasn’t just the hottest June on record—it continued the longest-ever streak of record-breaking months: 14. The start of summer in the Northern Hemisphere gave us the hottest June since 1880, according to data released Tuesday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. That follows the hottest May, April, March, February, January, December, November, […]
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By Kathryn Reed More than 500 affordable housing units could begin to be built on the South Shore in 2017. Patrick Taylor of Cave Rock is in escrow to buy the former Kingsbury Middle School and Wells Fargo Bank properties, both of which are in Stateline. “Everyone who has lived here a long time knows […]
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By James Rufus Koren, Los Angeles Times California’s largest public pension fund made a return of less than 1 percent in its most recent fiscal year, the fund’s worst performance since 2009. The California Public Employees’ Retirement System said Monday that its rate of return for the year ended June 30 was just 0.61 percent. […]
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By Marc Benjamin, Fresno Bee Trees are dying in the Sierra at modern-day unprecedented rates, posing elevated fire danger and creating health, water and air quality concerns, but a possible solution to rid the forest of dead and dying trees is getting short shrift, officials say. California’s biomass industry is set up regionally to turn […]
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By Kathryn Reed The feds, state, a sovereign nation and a private business will meet again today in an attempt to find a resolution that would allow the Meeks Bay Marina to reopen. It has been closed all season – and might not open in 2017 – because of stormwater violations. Lahontan Regional Water Control […]
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By Michael Doyle, McClatchy News Service California has a stake in a sprawling public lands package moving through the Senate, including controversial water provisions that don’t even name the state. The package includes expanding one national historic site honoring famed conservationist John Muir and designating a new historic site at the former Tule Lake camp […]
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By Rosanna Xia, Los Angeles Times The gravitational tug between the sun and moon is not just a dance of high and low tides: It can also trigger a special kind of earthquake on the San Andreas fault. This phenomenon has fascinated scientists for years. Like sea levels, the surface of the Earth also goes […]
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By Kathryn Reed A lawsuit has been filed to stop the loop road from ever going on the ballot. Jason Collin, director of Home Health & Hospice for Barton Health and likely candidate for South Lake Tahoe City Council, filed the lawsuit last week. The city of South Lake Tahoe received notice late July 18; […]
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