By Veronica Rocha, Los Angeles Times Most of California’s major reservoirs are now less than half-full — or at what officials call a “seriously low” level — but that’s still nowhere near the historic lows set in 1977, the state’s driest year on record. The latest report released Wednesday by the California Department of Water […]
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By Kathryn Reed Tahoe Keys Marina staff illegally removed vegetation to create a dirt parking lot close to the water. “It’s fairly significant. Eleven thousand square feet is the size of an entire lot,” Julie Regan, spokeswoman for the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, told Lake Tahoe News. “It’s a serious matter and we will want […]
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By Amber Phillips, Las Vegas Sun WASHINGTON — With one week to go before a five-week summer break, Nevada’s lawmakers are doing what they can do to push through agendas they’ve been working on all year. Rep. Mark Amodei claimed one of the delegation’s first victories of the week when the House of Representatives passed […]
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By Katharine Mieszkowski, Center of Investigative Reporting Gov. Jerry Brown has asked restaurants not to serve water unless diners ask for it. He’s letting lawns at the state Capitol turn brown. Farmers in the Central Valley are getting just a trickle of the water they usually do. Conspicuous water wasters – commercial and residential – […]
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By Kathryn Reed MEYERS – The tiny moths that are turning a large swath of the South Shore orange are out mating so there will presumably be more organisms to wreak havoc. The needle miner is a micro moth that lives about a year, but can do tremendous harm in its short lifespan. They live […]
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By David Crary, AP NEW YORK — Experimentation with human growth hormones by America’s teens more than doubled in the past year, as more young people looked to drugs to boost their athletic performance and improve their looks, according to a new, large-scale national survey. In a confidential 2013 survey of 3,705 high school students, […]
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By Kathryn Reed Two people were injured when the Deerfield Lodge in South Lake Tahoe went up in flames Wednesday night. The fire that swept through the Ski Run Boulevard two-story hotel displaced all of the guests. Thirty-five people were taken to Lakeside Inn for the evening and are expected to return today. The back […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – With an arsonist on the loose on the South Shore setting brush fires, Simmie is even more important. Simmie is Lake Valley Fire Protection District’s arson dog. She was at the Soroptimist International South Lake Tahoe lunch on Wednesday at Harrah’s Lake Tahoe with her handler Gareth Harris. Harris, fire […]
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By Geoffrey Mohan, Los Angeles Times If you want to slow climate change, white meat may be the right meat, according to two studies that tally the environmental effect of the beef industry. Raising cattle in the U.S. requires 28 times as much land and 11 times as much irrigation water, and pumps at least […]
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By Sharon Bernstein, Reuters SACRAMENTO — California had its warmest winter and spring on record this year, leading to stresses on water resources and agriculture, as well as increased risk of wildfire in the most populous U.S. state, the National Weather Service said Monday. In an overview of the nation’s weather released on the agency’s […]
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