By Kathryn Reed It’s possible kayakers using the Upper Truckee River may one day not be able to reach Lake Tahoe. And the landowners are OK with that. The California Tahoe Conservancy board on Dec. 18 certified the environmental documents for the Upper Truckee River and Marsh restoration project and approved the preferred alternative. Tom […]
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By Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle The stormy weather expected to dampen California for the next several days — which holds promise of a wet and even white Christmas some places — is just the beginning of what promises to be a soggy winter ahead, federal climate experts said Thursday. This week’s monthly report by […]
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By John Flesher, AP TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Some of the world’s biggest temperature jumps are happening in lakes — an ominous sign that suggests problems such as harmful algae blooms and low-oxygen zones hazardous to fish will get worse, says a scientific report. An analysis of 235 lakes that together hold more than […]
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By Kathryn Reed Lake Tahoe’s economy is not thriving. That was the message delivered this week by three members of the Tahoe Prosperity Center. “We need to make it a less difficult place to make a living,” Heidi Hill Drum, executive director of TPC, told a group of near two dozen people at Lake Tahoe […]
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By National Weather Service After four dry winters, the mountain snowpack is off to a great start in the Eastern Sierra and Western Nevada. The peak of the snowpack is typically near April 1, and this is the date used to compare overall winter snowpack numbers. The winter of 2014-15 brought an abysmal snowpack to […]
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By Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazette-Journal TAHOE CITY — To people who dedicate their lives to mountains and snow the statement from Jen Gurecki might have sounded blasphemous. “I’m at a point in my life where I’ve had so many powder days I can’t even keep track of them,” Gurecki said before getting to the really shocking stuff. […]
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By Linda Fine Conaboy RENO – It’s the busiest mailing day of the year and surprisingly this humming and thrumming place was occupied by seemingly happy people, masters of their powerful conveyors, sorters, forklifts, trucks, and bins and bins of mail, all awaiting their attention. The Reno Main Post Office on Vassar Street is the […]
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By Taylor Goldenstein, Los Angeles Times A coalition of groups representing cities, counties and water agencies filed a proposed ballot measure Monday that would allow water providers to reestablish so-called tiered pricing as a means of encouraging conservation. Backers submitted the California Water Conservation, Flood Control and Stormwater Management Act of 2016 to the attorney […]
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By Carolyn Lochhead, San Francisco Chronicle WASHINGTON — The White House followed Sunday’s landmark climate pact in Paris with a push Tuesday on water conservation and efficiency, as top administration officials warned that water shortages are among the biggest consequences of rising global temperatures. White House science adviser John Holdren and Interior Secretary Sally Jewell […]
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By Kathryn Reed It was probably the longest hour of Libi and Jason Fenley’s life. Their son was missing. He didn’t get off the school bus at day care. And no one knew where he was. Corben is a 6-year-old first-grader at Sierra House Elementary School in South Lake Tahoe. His teacher and principal confirmed […]
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