By Kathryn Reed UAB won’t make it to the final dance, but that’s OK. The men’s basketball team wasn’t ever expected to win its conference to advance to the NCAA tournament, let alone win a game at that tournament. It was so unexpected that the coach’s mom had to keep changing her flight – and […]
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Updated March 24 7:30pm By Kathryn Reed While the lake level is said to be the same across Lake Tahoe, marinas are not allowed to dredge to the same depth. That is one of the discrepancies the Lake Tahoe Marina Association is trying to remedy. Nor are there any studies to prove a difference between […]
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By Associated Press Overtime for California’s state workers rose 20 percent last year and topped $1 billion even though there are 20,000 fewer employees than in pre-recession 2008, the last time the state paid out so much, according to new payroll data. The increase comes after years of recommendations from the state auditor and budget […]
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By Edward Ortiz, Sacramento Bee With the state entering its fourth year of drought, some conservationists are looking at thinning Sierra forests to increase the amount of water that flows into area rivers. The Nature Conservancy issued a report Friday that argues that thinning forests on public lands can reduce wildfire risk in the Northern […]
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Publisher’s note: Lake Tahoe News spent March 22 driving around the lake looking at and documenting more than 20 locations to show what the drought looks like throughout the basin all on the same day. By Kathryn Reed It’s not unusual for Lake Tahoe to drop below its rim. What is unusual is when the […]
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By Dale Kasler and Matt Weiser, Sacramento Bee Drought is reshaping Lake Tahoe and its all-important tourism industry. Seven ski resorts have shut down early for the season because of a shortage of snow. The latest is Sugar Bowl Resort, which will turn off its chairlifts at the close of business Sunday. The long-term impact […]
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By J.D. Morris, Las Vegas Sun Amid all the discussion in Carson City about improving education, one piece of legislation is refloating an old, but likely ill-fated, idea to help fund Nevada’s bottom-tier school system: creating a state lottery. Assembly joint resolution No. 6 would authorize a lottery through an amendment of the Nevada Constitution, […]
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By Kathryn Reed With Lake Tahoe – the land and water – being a continual scientific discovery, students at Zephyr Cove Elementary School are stepping outside to learn. Each grade level is being taught something unique about Tahoe as part of the science curriculum. It’s called “place based learning” – something Principal Nancy Cauley and […]
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By Jeff DeLong, Reno Gazette-Journal Fed up with waiting, Nevada lawmakers are ramping up efforts to have private companies, fire districts and others paid for work conducted years ago to reduce fire danger in vulnerable areas around Lake Tahoe. The Legislature earlier this month passed a joint resolution urging Congress to pay contractors who performed […]
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By Chris Dolce, Weather The winter of 2014-15 was the warmest on record worldwide, according to the state of the climate report released by the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration on Wednesday. NOAA says that December through February – for meteorological record-keeping purposes, winter is defined as those three months in the Northern Hemisphere – was […]
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