By Kathryn Reed WEST SACRAMENTO – The crack of the bat, the roar of the crowd – those are the same at any ball field. It’s the antics between innings and the grass beyond right field that makes this park a little different. While the game is the same, there is something special about a […]
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By Lauren Bain, Nevada Today The Lahontan cutthroat trout was rediscovered in a “dinky” stream near the Nevada-Utah border. Genetic testing by Associate Professor of Biology Mary Peacock led to the rediscovery of an iconic Nevada fish. “Even though they were in that tiny, dinky stream on the edge of Utah for close to 100 years, […]
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By Brooke Laine I am providing the following information because I can no longer be a party to the violations of law, secrecy, manipulation, lies, and power struggles that are rampant at the city today. There appears to be a complete disregard on the part of politicians and appointed officials for state law, transparency, […]
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By Kathryn Reed MEYERS – At the rate El Dorado County supervisors are dealing with vacation home rentals, it’s possible some of them won’t even be in office before a full ordinance comes up for a vote. It was more of the same at the most recent meeting on April 12. Supervisors Sue Novasel and […]
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By Eric Ting, San Francisco Chronicle Californians may get to vote on a plan to split the state into three smaller states this November. Venture capitalist Tim Draper, who previously pushed a proposal that would split California into six states, says that his three-state proposal has enough signatures to qualify for the November ballot. […]
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By Danny King, Travel Weekly For most of the history of snowmaking technology, the ski industry has viewed it as a plan B effort: filling in bare spots on an occasional warm, dry day in the mountains, especially late in the season. But global warming has changed that view. Increasingly, snowmaking is becoming a […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – Hotel occupancy in the United States is at the highest level it has ever achieved – 66 percent. Ali Hoyt, senior director of consulting analytics for Denver based STR, was one of the presenters this week at the annual Mountain Travel Symposium. She provided a wealth of information about the […]
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By Tara Lohan, Water Deeply April is often a time of abundance in the mountains of the American West, when snowpack is at or near its peak, and forecasters work to determine how much runoff will course through our rivers and fill reservoirs later in the season. This year, across much of the West, particularly […]
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By Joe Mathews One of California’s hottest development projects can be found in one of its coldest towns. In an era of neighbor-bites-neighbor fights against big developments, perhaps it’s fitting that one antidote should emerge from the Donner Pass. Tiny Truckee—a snowy municipality of 16,300—is doubling the size of its downtown. The Railyard Project—it’s a […]
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By Kathryn Reed Andy Wirth is no longer at the helm of Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows ski resorts. Wirth has been a polarizing figure in the Olympic Valley and greater Lake Tahoe-Truckee areas. Why exactly the 54-year-old abruptly left has not been disclosed. A statement by Wirth issued by the resort called it a […]
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