By Kathryn Reed For athletes, equipment matters in terms of performance and safety. While helmet use has increased from 25 percent of skiers-snowboarders wearing one in 2002-03 to 78 percent in 2014-15, according to the National Ski Area Association, consumers don’t always pay attention to the quality. RUROC, which was formed 10 years ago in […]
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By David Benda, Record Searchlight Two-thirds through Thursday’s talk on forests and water yields at the Sierra-Cascade Logging Conference, moderator Jim Ostrowski asked the audience about the governor’s mandate for a 25 percent statewide water use reduction. “Maybe we need to tell the governor we got a better a deal,” Ostrowski said. He was referring […]
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By Phillip Marcelo, AP Casinos worried that millennials aren’t getting into traditional gambling like their parents and grandparents are bringing in tattoo studios, mixed martial arts competitions and other offbeat attractions to attract a younger clientele. In New England, where a regional casino war is afoot, Connecticut’s Foxwoods is remaking one of its gambling floors […]
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By Kathryn Reed Bulldozing and starting over is what many people would like to do with a majority of parcels in South Lake Tahoe. One-by-one the California Tahoe Conservancy is doing this. The board in March will have a say in whether that happens to the Knights Inn that fronts Highway 50 at the corner […]
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By Jackie Valley, Las Vegas Sun The number of Nevada children without health insurance keeps dropping, especially among such historically hard-to-reach populations as minorities and lower-income residents, according to a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation study released Thursday. The number of uninsured Nevada children dropped to 10 percent in 2014 from 14.4 percent in 2013 — […]
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By Patrick Doyle, Mountain When Squaw Valley installed electric vehicle charging stations back in 2013, the resort ran into an immediate problem: The electricity it received from its provider, Liberty Utilities, was dirty, generated in part by the burning of Rocky Mountain coal at the North Valmy Generation Station, a hulking power plant in Northern […]
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By Kathryn Reed By August the Tahoe Transportation District expects to have the necessary approvals from the various entities to go forward with the loop road on the South Shore. What is expected to be a $75 million construction project would reroute Highway 50 at about Pioneer Trail on the east, go behind Harrah’s-MontBleu and […]
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By Seth A. Richardson, Reno Gazette-Journal Nevada’s first-in-the-West status could be in jeopardy barring an abnormally high turnout compared with previous years, according to national reports and in-state experts. Several reports have stated the theory recently, especially regarding the Republican caucus and a potential move to another state. Turnout for the Republican caucuses was below 45,000 in both […]
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By Dale Kasler, Sacramento Bee It’s one of the lesser-known costs of California’s drought: the drying-up of the state’s normally abundant cheap hydroelectric power. A hydro shortage has raised California’s electricity costs by a combined $2 billion the past four years, according to a report released Tuesday by the Pacific Institute, a water policy think […]
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By Kathryn Reed A 30-year-old policy that is unique to Lake Tahoe is proving its ineffectiveness by having a pronounced detrimental impact in the basin. The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency created a policy where commercial floor area (CFA) and tourist accommodation units (TAUs) have a value unto themselves. The purpose was to curtail development. It […]
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