By Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle The summer horror story is a getaway or camping vacation that is overrun with crowds. The vision is fed by year-round traffic nightmares in the Bay Area, Sacramento and other cities, where people jammed shoulder to shoulder can start to feel like an omnipresent condition you can’t escape. Yet with […]
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By Alexander S. Corey and Ben Botkin, Las Vegas Review-Journal The U.S. Supreme Court’s deadlock in a major immigration case Thursday adds another dimension to an already hot election cycle. The question: Will the court’s nondecision — which continues to prohibit thousands of undocumented Nevadans from receiving work permits — galvanize Latino voters angered by […]
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By Kathryn Reed Saying you didn’t know the rules isn’t good enough. “They don’t understand if takes time and effort to rehabilitate the damage and it is taxpayer dollars that go toward that,” Frank Machler with the U.S. Forest Service said. He’s talking about damage to forestland by motor vehicles. Machler is a law enforcement […]
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By Scott Sonner, AP A federal agency is on a path to sterilize wild horses on U.S. rangeland to slow the growth of herds — a new approach condemned by mustang advocates across the West. The U.S. Bureau of Land Management also continues to resist calls from ranchers and western Republicans to euthanize or sell […]
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By John Markoff, New York Times GLENBROOK — A vast, largely unexplored world is being opened by hobbyists piloting robotic submarines capable of traveling hundreds of feet below the surface of lakes, rivers and oceans. Styling themselves as citizen scientists, two young engineers, Eric Stackpole and David Lang, have created OpenROV, a small start-up based […]
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By Kathryn Reed El Dorado County is hedging its bets when it comes to whether the ambulance service on the South Shore will keep operating as of Friday. Supervisors on Tuesday will be asked to bring in another company to take over the service if the Tahoe group can’t make it work by the end […]
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By Cy Ryan, Las Vegas Sun CARSON CITY — Gov. Brian Sandoval said he has never smoked marijuana and is against making recreational use legal in Nevada, citing concerns about its impact on young people. Sandoval said that as a former federal judge, he saw how marijuana use led young people to trouble with the […]
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By George Avalos, San Jose Mercury News Living in San Jose, Kathleen Eaton seemingly had it all: a well-paying job, a home in a gated community, even the Bay Area’s temperate weather. But enduring a daily grind that made her feel like a “gerbil on a wheel,” Eaton reached her limit. Skyrocketing costs for housing, […]
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By Susan Wood STATELINE – The longtime firefighter/paramedic remembers the day as if you had asked him where he was during 9/11. It was June 24, 2007. After 31 years, Tahoe Douglas Fire Chief Ben Sharit will retire at the end of the month, capping off countless memories of his time spent rescuing people and […]
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By Associated Press California lawmakers are proposing a nearly $3 billion November bond measure to pay for improvements at state and local parks. Supporters say many local agencies cannot afford to maintain their outdoor spaces. The Assembly approved the measure Thursday on a 55-14 vote, with six Republicans joining Democrats in favor. The Senate must […]
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