By Krista Langlois, High Country News For many parts of the rural West — like Oregon’s Harney County, where timber jobs dropped 70 percent between 1998 and 2013 — large swaths of public land can feel like a burden. Counties rich in public land are often at the mercy of federal land managers, so when logging, […]
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By Devon O’Neil, Outside In July 2011, Arnaud Temme and three friends were climbing the Rottalgrat, a tough route on the west side of the Jungfrau in Switzerland’s Bernese Oberland, when rocks began to rain down from above. Temme, an experienced alpine climber, took a rock to the shoulder and a handful more hit his helmet, […]
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By Kathryn Reed Two underground plumes of a highly toxic chemical are inching their way toward Lake Tahoe. Even though tetrachloroethylene, or PCE, was first detected in South Lake Tahoe near the Y in 1989, the source of these plumes remains a mystery. To no avail Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board through a $69,000 […]
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By Scott Sonner, AP So you thought the Panthers and Broncos would put up a lot more points in Super Bowl 50, that Carolina quarterback Cam Newton would score at least once and probably be named the game’s most valuable player? So did a lot of people, and that had Nevada sportsbooks smiling a day […]
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By Lake Tahoe News Put away the fleece this week, a bit of a heat wave is going to hit the Lake Tahoe Basin. Forecasters at the National Weather Service in Reno are predicting record highs may be broken, with Tuesday the mostly likely day for this to happen. The record high […]
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By Anne Knowles Invasive species cost the country $3 billion every year and none more so than the fast-growing quagga mussel. “The quagga mussel is the most costly invasive in U.S. history,” said Matt Morrison, chief executive officer of the Pacific Northwest Economic Region, during a webinar last week titled Critical Habitat and Invasive Species […]
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By Jennifer Robison, Las Vegas Review-Journal Nevada’s lukewarm income recovery turned hot in 2015. After nearly a decade bringing up the nation’s rear in personal-income growth, the Silver State shot to No. 3 for gains in 2015, according to a new report from the Pew Charitable Trusts. Personal income matters because federal agencies use the number […]
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By Shay Castle, Denver Post Get the gear. Get the training. Get the forecast. That’s the mantra of the industry that’s built up around the rising popularity of back country sports — skiing, snowboarding, snowmobiling — undertaken outside the groomed boundaries of ski resorts. But while more and more people are venturing out into the […]
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Publisher’s note: This is one in a series of stories about Park City, Utah. By Kathryn Reed For years people have been saying Lake Tahoe – the South Shore in particular – is at a crossroads, at a tipping point. Many have predicted this region’s demise if change did not come – and come dramatically […]
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By Howard Stutz, Las Vegas Review-Journal The Carolina Panthers didn’t exist and Peyton Manning was in high school when Congress halted expansion of legal sports wagering in the U.S. in 1992. The Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act allowed Nevada’s sports book industry to continue along with small stakes sports wagering in Oregon, Delaware and Montana. […]
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