By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe voters will likely be asked in November to raise taxes in order to pay for a laundry list of needs and wants that was discussed by the City Council on Tuesday. “We need ongoing funding for long-term capital needs,” City Manager Nancy Kerry stressed. As was pointed out in […]
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By Peter Fimrite, San Francisco Chronicle Worsening drought conditions may be doing more damage to forests in California and throughout the West than their ecosystems can handle, causing a spiral of death that could have a devastating impact on land managers, a U.S. Forest Service study concludes. The 300-page report issued Monday — “Effects of […]
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By Lake Tahoe News It doesn’t matter that the water content of the snow near Echo Summit is 130 percent of average; officials aren’t about to say the drought is anywhere near over. “While the recent rains and growing snowpack are wonderful to behold, we won’t know until spring what effect it will have on […]
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By Kathryn Reed Ten million dollars. That’s what it could cost to move South Tahoe Public Utility District’s water and sewer lines if the loop road goes through. “It could have devastating impacts for our utility,” Shannon Cotulla, STPUD assistant general manager, said of the relocations process. Cotulla and General Manager Richard Solbrig explained at […]
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By Sean Whaley, Las Vegas Review-Journal CARSON CITY — Nevada government and business leaders may have to shift at least part of their established economic development focus from renewable energy to other opportunities if new net metering rules drive the rooftop-solar business out of Nevada as predicted by industry officials. Rooftop solar was only very recently […]
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By Kathryn Reed The much-maligned property in Tahoe Vista where Spindleshanks used to be might still be turned into 39 time-share units. Tim Wilkens, who owns the 6-acre parcel, has been given an extension by the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency until May 1 to start the construction process. “The determination was based on information that […]
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By Kathryn Reed INCLINE VILLAGE – Looking a bit like the desert of southern Utah, the landscape seems familiar. But this is another world. Curiosity, a six-wheeled robot about the size of a car, is providing scientists with new insight about the composition of Mars as well as photographs of Earth’s neighbor. “There are layers […]
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By Jon Marcus, Boston Globe ALBUQUERQUE — If there’s a place that symbolizes pre-interstate America, it’s Route 66, built to connect Chicago with Los Angeles, which John Steinbeck dubbed “the mother road.” From Depression-era migrants to returning GIs to family vacationers, motorists on Route 66 rolled past Vegas-style neon hovering over low-rise diners, motor courts, […]
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By Doyle Rice, USA Today Several “big and dangerous” avalanches took a toll on skiers, snowboarders and snowmobilers in the western USA this month, making January the deadliest month on the mountains since 2008. January is typically the month with the most avalanche fatalities in the U.S., but this January proved worse than normal, with 11 people killed, […]
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By Kathryn Reed Long before chocolate was routinely consumed as a solid form it was a beverage. There was a time when chocolate was for the elite members of society. The chocolate tree’s scientific name is Theobroma cacao. In Greek it means food of the gods. Dutch chemist Coenraad Jhannes van Houten is credited as […]
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