By Henry Fountain, New York Times HONOLULU — A thousand miles south of Hawaii, the air at 45,000 feet above the equatorial Pacific was a shimmering gumbo of thick storm clouds and icy cirrus haze, all cooked up by the overheated waters below. In a Gulfstream jet more accustomed to hunting hurricanes in the Atlantic, […]
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By Kathryn Reed Whatever your plans were for tonight, you need to change them. Go to The Loft. Drink, eat, see the show – do all three or any combination. It’s that good. Owner Paul Reder has redefined what going out in South Lake Tahoe is all about. There is nothing else like it in […]
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By Christine Mai-Duc, Los Angeles Times Gov. Jerry Brown is looking to make good on a promise to curb California’s petroleum use by shifting away from new legislation and instead tucking his fuel-reduction goal inside the state budget. Oil companies spent millions of dollars in 2015 to strip a controversial climate change bill of its provision slashing petroleum use in half […]
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By Megan Messerly, Las Vegas Sun The American Gaming Association gave only two presidential candidates, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, a “green light” for their stances on gaming in its voter guide released last week. Clinton received high marks for saying casinos spur economic development and praising Las Vegas […]
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By Linda Fine Conaboy RENO – Nevada is the third most earthquake-prone state and is the fastest growing state, tectonically speaking, annually adding more area than the size of two basketball courts because of tectonic activity. James Faulds, the state geologist for Nevada and director of the Nevada Bureaus of Mines and Geology at UNR, […]
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By Peter Hecht, Sacramento Bee Joycelyn Elders was never shy about speaking her mind as she consistently stirred public controversy while serving as surgeon general during her spirited – and short-lived – tenure with President Bill Clinton. Now 82, Elders demurred just a bit when she was introduced Friday night at a reception at the […]
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Publisher’s note: This is one in a series of stories about Park City, Utah. By Kathryn Reed Bill Rock is getting used to being the new guy, only this time it’s on a larger stage and in a much more public capacity. He is the man Vail Resorts taps to be the leader when it […]
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Publisher’s note: This is one in a series of stories about Park City, Utah. By Susan Wood PARK CITY, Utah – It’s a new PC world where “The Greatest Snow on Earth” meets the largest ski company in the United States. Vail Resorts, which owns Northstar, Heavenly and Kirkwood mountain resorts, expanded its reach and […]
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By Brian Kahn, Climate Central For most states in the U.S., winters without snow would be like a Super Bowl performance without Beyonce, Donald Trump without a combover or an overseas flight without a passport. And yet that’s exactly what’s been happening. As the world warms, it’s changing the essence of winter. It’s not that less […]
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By Soumya Karlamangla, Los Angeles Times More Californians are falling sick with the flu this month, but the season looks to be far less dangerous than those of past years. As of the first week of February, 11 Californians under the age of 65 had died from the flu since the season began in October. At this time last […]
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