By Las Vegas Sun The Obama administration is launching an effort to accelerate protection of sage grouse along the Nevada-California line with $31 million in spending commitments through 2024 to help ranchers and others improve grouse habitat. A top official in the Agriculture Department told the Associated Press that Friday’s announcement may represent the best, […]
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By Constantine von Hoffman, Money Watch More than half of all U.S. homes are located in areas prone to tornadoes, earthquakes or hurricanes. About 71 million housing units, or 55 percent of the nation’s total, fall into the high risk category, with 10.6 million of these, or 8 percent of the total, classified as very […]
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By Kathryn Reed Soaking in hot water has a history dating to the 4th century BC. There’s been quite an evolution from hot stones being placed in water to today’s fiberglass tubs found in so many Lake Tahoe back yards. It was in the 1940s that hot tubs started to become popular in the United […]
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By Susan Montoya Bryan, AP ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — An environmental group called on federal wildlife managers Wednesday to update a decades-old recovery plan for grizzly bears to ensure the animal’s return to the Grand Canyon and other areas of the West. The Center for Biological Diversity, in a petition filed with the U.S. Fish and […]
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By Tim Grant, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette While most high school students still plan to go the traditional route of attending four-year colleges and universities when they consider educational options after graduation, a significant number say they are open to the idea of attending community colleges and technical schools The Washington, D.C.-based College Savings Foundation’s fifth annual […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe officials believe the best way to get people to renovate their properties is to dangle a carrot in front of them. For those with property in the Tahoe Valley Area Plan, the carrots are coverage and commercial floor area. At a meeting Thursday night about the plan, where only […]
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By Amber Phillips, Las Vegas Sun Could the commercial trucks we share our highways with be getting bigger? Congress is mulling an idea to allow bigger and heavier semitrailers on American roads. There’s nothing set in stone yet, but the idea floating around Capitol Hill has transportation safety and law enforcement advocates worried enough to […]
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By Caitlin Owens, Los Angeles Times California’s drought conditions have worsened over the past week with the percentage of the state suffering from the highest category increasing, the National Weather Service said Thursday. “Exceptional” drought conditions have spread in Central California since a week ago, weather officials said. Areas in Northern California have also moved […]
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By Kathryn Reed A year after the El Dorado County Grand Jury was disbanded mid-session, the next group investigated 20 issues. The county is dysfunctional in many aspects was the conclusion. The final report was released Thursday. The report says, “Early in its term, the grand jury began to see a thread of dysfunction running […]
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By Matt Weiser, Sacramento Bee As California slips into summer amid the worst drought in a generation, state residents, as a whole, have done relatively little to cut their water use, falling well short of the 20 percent target set in Gov. Jerry Brown’s emergency drought declaration in January. Between January and May of this […]
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