By AC Shilton, Outside Chefs are infusing more than just sweets into cannabis. High-end cannabis dining is coming to a ski town near you. Your cannabis-related food associations probably aren’t great. There were the terrible weed brownies you made in college, with bits of plant fiber in every bite. Then there’s all the garbage food […]
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By Michelle Robertson, San Francisco Chronicle Aaron Rothschild starts most of his days about 6am. That way, he can finish up work in time to catch a few runs on the ski slopes. Some afternoons, he conducts meetings in the Squaw Valley Ski Resort parking lot with a “laptop between me and my steering […]
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By Kathryn Reed Chad Donnelly is committed to South Lake Tahoe even if some residents wish he would take SnowGlobe, his three-day music festival, elsewhere. “I really believe in what we do,” Donnelly told Lake Tahoe News. Since 2011 he has brought the electronic music festival to the ball fields on Al Tahoe Boulevard. It’s […]
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By Gillian Flaccus, AP PORTLAND — Scientists have found dramatically declining snowpack across the American West over the past six decades that will likely cause water shortages in the region that cannot be managed by building new reservoirs, according to a study published last week. The study led by scientists from Oregon State University and […]
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By Tara Lohan, Water Deeply Last month, California’s State Water Resources Control Board postponed a decision on the adoption of new statewide regulations meant to curb wasteful water practices. The regulations would make permanent some rules California enacted temporarily during the recent drought, which ended last year. After several public comment periods this winter, water board […]
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By Kathryn Reed It’s official – Nancy Kerry is no longer city manager of South Lake Tahoe. “We’ve accepted the resignation of Nancy Kerry effective immediately,” Mayor Wendy David said after emerging from about a 30-minute closed session meeting on March 6 at 6:05pm. Kerry told Lake Tahoe News, “I’ve really enjoyed the 10 gratifying […]
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By Andrea Castillo, Benjamin Oreskes and Tony Barboza, Los Angeles Times MAMMOTH LAKES — One day after an avalanche roared down Mammoth Mountain, danger was hardly on the mind of snowboarder Caleb Hill as he carved through fresh powder under clear skies Sunday. Like hordes of other visitors to the Sierra Nevada resort, Hill, 24, was […]
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By Davide Porter, AP NEWARK, N.J. — As the push to legalize sports gambling in the U.S. nears a crucial Supreme Court decision, states hoping to reap a financial windfall could face another hurdle: Attracting younger players used to online fantasy sports. The explosion in popularity of daily fantasy sports over the last decade has […]
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By Jonathan J. Cooper, AP California state agencies spent nearly $1.8 billion fighting fierce wildfires that killed dozens of people and destroyed thousands of homes and businesses last year, legislative budget experts reported. The federal government will reimburse most of the costs, but the state will still need to come up with about $371 […]
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By Ed Fletcher, Sacramento Bee Despite last week’s heavy snowfall, Tahoe ski resorts know they can’t predict how strong each winter will be. They suffered through drought years earlier this decade. Out of nowhere last year, Tahoe was deluged with so much precipitation that avalanches were a regular concern. This season has been subpar, save […]
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