By Steve Tetreault, Las Vegas Review Journal WASHINGTON — A Nevada bill submitted to Congress on Thursday would realign federal lands in Douglas County, opening some for development while creating a 12,330-acre scenic wilderness. The measure would designate the Burbank Canyons Wilderness in the Pine Nut Mountains northwest of Wellington. The area of three deep […]
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By Howard Stutz, Las Vegas Review-Journal The American Gaming Association will launch a national initiative in conjunction with the 2016 presidential campaign aimed at showing the industry’s economic benefits to candidates for the nation’s highest office. The effort, dubbed “Gaming Votes,” is twofold — to educate casino industry employees, vendors and other stakeholders on candidate […]
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By Kathryn Reed TRUCKEE – Long wooden tables elegantly adorned with place settings, each with four wine glasses, three forks and three knives. This was no ordinary dinner at a ski lodge. Foie gras is coming out of the kitchen, bubbly is being poured. Helena Kletch and JT Chevalier are providing background music. There is […]
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By Sharokina Shams, KCRA-TV A group of U.S. senators, including Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., are pushing for a law that would require labels for genetically engineered foods, but efforts to make similar laws in California have failed. Some lawmakers want all foods that are genetically engineered to be labeled in order to alert consumers. “Consumers […]
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By Scott Smith, AP With California entering its fourth drought year, even some big resorts with millions of dollars in modern snow-making equipment don’t have all their lifts running. The midsized and family-owned resorts struggling most had hoped to reopen for the Presidents Day holiday, traditionally the year’s biggest weekend for skiing. A recent winter […]
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By ABHOW To have and to hold, for better or for worse, for richer or for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish from this day forward, until death do us part. Warren Kessler, who moved to Tahoe Senior Plaza in South Lake Tahoe in September, has presided over the exchange […]
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It’s shorts weather in Lake Tahoe and it’s going to stay that way through the weekend. South Lake Tahoe hit a record high on Feb. 12 and Feb. 13, and is likely to do so Valentine’s Day. The mercury soared to 61 on Thursday, with the old record being 58 set just last year. On […]
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By Darryl Fears, Washington Post The long and severe drought in the U.S. Southwest pales in comparison with what’s coming: a “megadrought” that will grip that region and the central plains later this century and probably stay there for decades, a new study says. Thirty-five years from now, if the current pace of climate change […]
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By Guy Clifton, Reno Gazette-Journal Carl Lackey doesn’t go anywhere without his Rooster. That includes trucks, ATVs, helicopters, ski lifts, classrooms and everywhere else Lackey’s job as a bear biologist with the Nevada Department of Wildlife takes him. Rooster is Lackey’s 10-year-old Karelian Bear Dog, who – when he isn’t being a slightly oversized lap […]
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A federal grand jury on Feb. 12 indicted former South Lake Tahoe fire Capt. Mark WyGant on six counts regarding child pornography. The 44-year-old faces charges of sexual exploitation and attempted sexual exploitation of minors. WyGant remains in custody in Sacramento where he has been since being arrested Jan. 29. According to court documents, WyGant […]
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