By Ian James, Desert Sun Some lawmakers are raising questions about the impacts of bottled water companies on water supplies in California after a Desert Sun investigation found little government oversight of the amounts of water being tapped or the effects on the environment. Despite the drought, no state agency has been tracking exactly how […]
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By Kathryn Reed That runny nose and cough may not be a lingering cold. It could be allergies. There is no “allergy season” per se, just peak times for certain allergies. With plants beginning to bloom sooner than normal in the basin, people are experiencing allergic reactions to them. How this affects an individual all […]
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By Kate Schimel, High Country News In the midst of fighting a wildfire, predicting the future is a matter of tracking invisible forces: gust fronts, storms, air columns. While firefighters battle the flames on the ground, fire experts look for signs that the weather or the wildfire might shift. They follow storm tracks, watch weather […]
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By Tom Knudson, Reveal By now, the impacts of California’s unchecked groundwater pumping are well-known: the dropping water levels, dried-up wells and slowly sinking farmland in parts of the Central Valley. But another consequence gets less attention, one measured not by acre-feet or gallons-per-minute but the long march of time. As California farms and cities […]
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By Kathryn Reed Abrasives put on roadways in the Lake Tahoe Basin are a huge contributor to the loss of lake clarity. That was one of the messages delivered to the Lahontan board on Thursday when staff gave an update about the total maximum daily load program. The TMDL is designed to keep fine sediment […]
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By Eduardo Porter, New York Times Why do the best-educated girls do worse at math than top-educated boys? Concern about this deficit exploded into public consciousness 35 years ago, when researchers in the department of psychology at Johns Hopkins University published an article suggesting the gap might be caused by a “superior male mathematical ability.” […]
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By Ana Ley, Las Vegas Sun Nevada lawmakers are pushing a bill that would require uniformed law enforcement officers to wear body cameras, mirroring the nation’s intensifying efforts to improve relationships between police and the communities they serve. Introduced Monday by Assemblyman Harvey Munford, D-Las Vegas, Assembly Bill 162 is one of 87 pieces of […]
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By Kathryn Reed A shared resource or a subsidy? Being able to answer that question is what the financial disagreement over ambulance service on the South Shore is coming down to. The Cal-Tahoe JPA, which has two board members from the South Lake Tahoe City Council and two from the Lake Valley Fire Protection District […]
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By Kathryn Reed Steve Neff, chief financial officer of Barton Health, was fired today. Neff had been on the job since August. “He got fired today. I’m not at liberty to give all the reasons behind that,” Kirk Ledbetter, chairman of the board, told Lake Tahoe News. “It was something the leaders at Barton felt […]
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By CBS and Associated Press LOS ANGELES — The probability California will experience a magnitude 8 or larger earthquake in the next couple of decades has increased, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. “The new likelihoods are due to the inclusion of possible multi-fault ruptures, where earthquakes are no longer confined to separate, individual faults, […]
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