By Kathryn Reed The Angora Fire of 2007 taught South Lake Tahoe officials a lot of things. But much of what needed to be improved was not implemented until this year. And those changes are about to be tested. On Monday, a C130 airplane from the National Guard will be on the tarmac as though […]
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By Jack Healy, New York Times PARK CITY — Can a ski town survive if the ski lifts stop running? The question is gripping this mountain town where celebrities gather each winter for the Sundance Film Festival and summer days glide by as placidly as kayakers on the nearby reservoir. Beneath the calm veneer, a […]
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By Jon Ortiz, Sacramento Bee A divided CalPERS board on Tuesday approved a regulation that will allow nearly 100 different types of supplemental pay to count toward pension calculations for state and local government employees. The 7-5 vote drew a swift rebuke from Gov. Jerry Brown, who signed pension overhaul legislation in 2012 that, in […]
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By Kathryn Reed For 30 years a treasure trove of Lake Tahoe area history sat in a closet unbeknownst to the owners. The white wooden chest was in Mary K. Sonntag’s home in New Castle, Pa. Her mother, Myrtle McConahy Keefer, had sent it to her in 1962. In 1992, Sonntag’s daughter, Mary Jo Sonntag, […]
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By Kat Kerlin, UC Davis California has allocated five times more surface water than the state actually has, making it hard for regulators to tell whose supplies should be cut during a drought, UC researchers reported. The scientists said California’s water-rights regulator, the State Water Resources Control Board, needs a systematic overhaul of policies and […]
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By Jesse Paul, Denver Post The Western Governors’ Association in a letter last week urged U.S. Senate and congressional leadership, and President Obama, to increase federal wildfire budgets so agencies can stop using fire prevention funds for fire suppression. The association said the U.S. Forest Service is again on pace to utilize prevention funds for […]
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By Tom Randall, Bloomberg If you live in California, Australia or Scandinavia, 2014 may feel like the hottest year on record. Not quite; on a global scale, it’s “only” third-hottest. The global average surface temperature for January through July was 1.2 degrees Fahrenheit (0.66 degrees Celsius) above the 20th century average, tying with 2002 as […]
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By Kathryn Reed CAMP RICHARDSON – Now in its 18th year, the Lake Tahoe Environmental Summit is the place for politicians and others to tout how much they care about the basin, what they’ve done to make it great and what they want to do for the future. Since the first summit, $1.74 billion has […]
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By Hayley Ringle, Phoenix Business Journal At 14 years old, Logan LaPlante is introducing the world to “hackschooling,” a term he uses as he gains hands-on skills through internships for his alternative, DIY schooling. LaPlante calls hackschooling “a mindset, not a system,” and says regardless of what type of school a child attends, they can […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – When the emergency happens it’s too late to think about what to take. That’s why it is necessary to have papers in place, an emergency kit packed and a rendezvous spot selected now – not later. Leona Allen with Lake Valley Fire Protection District and Niki Congero with Lake Tahoe […]
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