By Carolyn Lochhead, San Francisco Chronicle California cities could lose a big tool to encourage water conservation in an intently watched court case from San Juan Capistrano, a picturesque mission town in Orange County where a taxpayer group has challenged the city’s authority to charge homeowners more money for using more water. The Capistrano Taxpayers […]
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By Adam Nagourney, Jack Healy and Nelson D. Schwartz, New York Times LOS ANGELES — For more than a century, California has been the state where people flocked for a better life — 164,000 square miles of mountains, farmland and coastline, shimmering with ambition and dreams, money and beauty. It was the cutting-edge symbol of […]
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By Kathryn Reed Look outside – that’s why the U.S. Forest Service doesn’t open all trails in April – especially ones that allow motorized vehicles. Last week a group of off-highway vehicle enthusiasts gathered at the South Lake Tahoe Forest Service office to talk about how best to maintain the roads, suggest ways for user […]
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By Prashant Gopal, Bloomberg Even before the remnants of eastern Massachusetts’ snowiest winter have melted, second-home buyers flocking to Cape Cod’s beach towns have helped Steve Clay’s team of agents break their sales record. Clay, an agent with Keller Williams Realty, said he and his four agents have 17 properties under contract, more than at […]
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By Nick Cahill, Courthouse News Service SACRAMENTO — A federal judge refused to dismiss a professor’s claim that the U.S. Forest Service is damaging the Lake Tahoe watershed by clearing timber and brush and depositing the slash in streams and wetlands. U.S. District Judge Garland Burrell Jr. ruled Tuesday that the Forest Service’s argument was […]
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By Kathryn Reed The Sierra Club is on a mission to get Liberty Utilities to stop using coal. The national environmental group is behind a campaign to prevent the electric company from renewing its contract with North Valmy when it expires at the end of the year. Liberty supplies power to the California side of […]
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By Rachael Bale, Reveal Monsanto Co.’s Roundup has been having a bad couple of weeks. Last week, the World Health Organization declared that its active ingredient, glyphosate, and two other pesticides probably cause cancer in humans. Another study out this week suggests glyphosate use also may contribute to antibiotic resistance, a mounting problem that’s begun […]
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By Richard Chang, Sacramento Bee Despite drought conditions that have elevated wildfire risks this year, Placer County officials are considering whether to shutter one rural fire station and eliminate several positions to save money as it faces higher state firefighting costs. Placer County contracts with the CalFire to staff its engines and stations in a vast […]
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By Marcella Corona, Reno Gazette-Journal It’s been 10 years since 28-year-old preschool teacher Kyla Annan was found strangled to death at her home in Reno. “It’s a pretty hard time,” Kyla’s father, Steven Annan, said Friday afternoon. “In 10 years you can bury a lot.” Annan and his wife, Cheryl, of South Lake Tahoe, sat […]
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Even though over the course of decades more than $100 million has been spent on cleanup activities at an old sulfur mine in Alpine County, a settlement agreement between disagreeing parties was just reached. In July, at the Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board meeting officials said the settlement could happen any day. It took […]
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