By Kathryn Reed Keep the sunscreen handy, it’s just going to get hotter. Temps in the Lake Tahoe Basin are expected to stay above normal through Saturday. “We are not going to be this hot the rest of the summer. We had all those cold low pressures moving inland. This time it stayed off […]
Read more
By Evan Maxwell, Reno Gazette-Journal Long-simmering political tension between Lake Tahoe casinos and the government of Douglas County broke out into open warfare last week. In an extraordinary three-hour presentation before the Douglas County Board of County Commissioners last Monday, District Attorney Mark Jackson leveled charges of corruption, illegal collusion and political malfeasance against the leadership […]
Read more
By Katie Arnold, Outside As a kid, Sally Jewell spent a lot of time outside. Her parents took her to her first national park when she was 4 years old, and by age 15, she’d scaled Mount St. Helen’s with a group of friends. But the current Secretary of the Interior, now 60, isn’t as interested in […]
Read more
By Kathryn Reed Sweet woodruff is spreading, with tiny white flowers blooming. The yarrow is going nuts. The salvia is strong and the maple is happy. Those are the sentiments of landscaper Brian Hirdman about the plants in my yard. “This is what I aim for every year,” Hirdman said as he surveyed the work […]
Read more
By Megan Messerly, Las Vegas Sun If the success of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders is any indication, this could be the year of the outsider in American politics. But will the anti-establishment sentiment that has fueled their campaigns trickle down to statewide and local elections in Nevada? That’s one of several key questions that […]
Read more
By Todd Wilkinson, National Geographic Maybe it’s a baby robin that falls out of a nest in the backyard, or perhaps twin deer fawns left orphaned after their mother gets struck by a car or eaten by wolves, or perchance a bald eagle, behaving strangely, staggering on the ground and unable to fly. When wild […]
Read more
By Joann Eisenbrandt PLACERVILLE – In early April, the Shingle Springs Rancheria Band of Miwok Indians presented two applications to the Bureau of Indian Affairs to have fee-simple lands that they had purchased put into trust with the federal government. Together, these parcels total just more than 35 acres and are adjacent to or in […]
Read more
By Amy Beth Hanson, AP As the National Park Service kicks off a centennial summer expected to draw record crowds, the agency is seriously considering caps on how many people pass through some of the country’s most iconic landscapes and historical sites each day. Park managers have begun looking at whether, when and how best […]
Read more
By Wayne Parry, AP Internet gambling has tremendous growth potential in the United States as ever-greater percentages of the public use smartphones, participants in a major gambling conference said Wednesday. At the East Coast Gaming Congress and iGaming Institute in Atlantic City, casino and online gambling executives said the online gambling market has shown encouraging […]
Read more
By Kathryn Reed CARSON CITY – Rugged, desolate, colorful, stark, verdant, snow capped. Clear Creek Trail has it all. Sagebrush is everywhere at the start, then it starts to peter out as the trail keeps going west into the mountains. The pines bring welcome shade. But they are never as thick and tall as hiking […]
Read more