By Kathryn Reed Lake Tahoe Hard Rock’s pool has been losing 20,000 gallons a day for about a month, but it wasn’t until Thursday that hotel-casino authorities notified officials. “They noticed an increase use in water in the pool in the last 30 days. They concluded it must be a leak,” JoAnn Kittrell with the […]
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By Haley Branson-Potts and Rong-gong Lin II, Los Angeles Times It’s the middle of the summer, but it felt a bit like winter in the Sierra this week as a storm dumped 4 inches of hail on Interstate 80 around Donner Summit. There was so much pea-sized ice that the California Highway Patrol on Tuesday halted […]
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By Dale Kasler, Sacramento Bee In a setback to California water regulators’ conservation efforts, the state Supreme Court has kept intact a ruling that makes it harder for municipalities to impose tiered pricing to discourage heavy water use. The state’s high court upheld a closely watched ruling involving the Orange County city of San Juan […]
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By Susan Wood STATELINE – Country music great Kenny Chesney rocked a packed house of American kids, their parents and other beach-loving party music enthusiasts Wednesday night at Harveys casino for its outdoor summer concert series. Along the way, Chesney enlisted some high-profile help on stage. He was joined by red rocker Sammy Hagar and singer […]
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By Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle Even if California voters legalize cannabis in 2016, it will take “many years” of patience to figure out how to tax and regulate a multibillion-dollar industry that’s forever been largely underground. That’s the cautionary conclusion of a thorough examination of what it will take to legalize marijuana in the […]
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By Kathryn Reed Drought is proving to be a good thing for the waters of Lake Tahoe, at least when it comes to clarity. With less sediment reaching the lake mostly because the spring runoff was dismal, lake clarity is the best it has been in a decade. The Secchi disk – which resembles a […]
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By Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazette-Journal Paddling a canoe around Lake Tahoe would be quite an accomplishment for most people. Grant Korgan isn’t most people. He wants more. The relentlessly positive Korgan wants to make the trip in fewer than 16 hours, which would be a world record. The 38-year-old from Incline Village is making the attempt […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – Three dynamic men had fans on their feet for nearly four hours Tuesday night as they sang, danced and wowed the full house at Harveys. San Francisco’s Train headlined the July 21 concert, but it was Matt Nathanson who got the crowd grooving in a way most opening acts aren’t […]
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By Stefan Nicola, BloombergBusiness Earth warmed to a record in the first half of the year, putting new pressure on nations from the U.S. to China to try to curb climate change at a United Nations summit in Paris this December. Global land and sea surface temperatures from January through June were 1.53 degrees Fahrenheit […]
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By Kathryn Reed After hours of talk Tuesday by South Lake Tahoe staff and electeds, plus comments from 22 members of the public, the politicians went forward with a new vacation home rental ordinance. Prior to that, during the temporary arts and crafts show discussion, Councilman Tom Davis said it was important to enforce the rules […]
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