By David Page, Powder Wednesday is ski day at Mammoth Elementary School. Which, for parents of kids in the program, means an added level of complexity on Wednesday mornings. Not only do the kids have to be in the car by 7:35am, with lunches, homework, combed hair, brushed teeth, and snow boots on the correct feet, […]
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By John Harrell, USA Today RENO — It’s 5:30am at Reno-Tahoe International Airport. A ramp agent shepherds a line of nondescript boxes up a conveyor belt into the belly of a Southwest Airlines Boeing 737 that’s scheduled for a 5:55am departure to Las Vegas. Once that flight arrives to Vegas, those packages could be bound for almost any of the […]
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By Kathryn Reed VOLCANO – Life and death all in a matter of weeks. Mother Nature can be cruel that way. While the blooms of Daffodil Hill had clearly passed their peak on the first full day of spring, by March 21 the iconic outpost in Amador County was closed for the season. It has […]
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By John Myers and Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times Lawmakers and labor unions have struck a tentative deal to raise the statewide minimum wage to $10.50 an hour next year and then gradually to $15, averting a costly political campaign this fall and possibly putting California at the forefront of a national movement. The deal […]
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By Matt Stevens, Los Angeles Times The El Niño-fueled storms that have swept through Northern California in recent weeks have swelled some of the state’s largest reservoirs to encouraging levels even as the state’s drought persists. One of the biggest beneficiaries has been Lake Shasta, a keystone reservoir of the Central Valley project, which serves California […]
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“We are really tired of having to sue our own county to get you to do the right thing.” — Sue Taylor, Save Our County, public comment at the Feb. 23, 2016, El Dorado County Board of Supervisors meeting […]
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By Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazette-Journal One little land gift is about to become a very big deal for biking and hiking near Incline Village. That’s because software billionaire David Duffield’s 18-acre gift to the Nevada Land Trust clears the way to develop a connection between Mt. Rose Highway and Tunnel Creek Road – and many […]
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By Kathryn Reed Barton Health officials endorse the guidelines passed this month by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention related to prescribing opioid painkillers such as OxyContin and Percocet. The recommendations focus on the use of opioids for pain that has lasted longer than three months. It does not address those using these drugs […]
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Publisher’s note: This is one in a series of stories about the National Park Service, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2016. By Susan Wood YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK – For me, the real stand down involving the national parks occurred long before Yosemite’s former concessionaire Delaware North decided to play hardball with iconic park […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe has put El Dorado County and Lake Valley Fire Protection District on notice that it intends to get out of the ambulance service by April 15. The multiyear contract between the three agencies allows for any entity to give a 30-day notice. The city did so on March 15. […]
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