By Rob Hotakainen, McClatchy WASHINGTON — In drought-hit California, marijuana growers are feeling the heat, accused of using too much water for their thirsty plants and of polluting streams and rivers with their pesticides and fertilizers. State officials say a pot plant sucks up an average of 6 gallons of water per day, worsening a […]
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By Patrick McGreevy, Los Angeles Times SACRAMENTO -– A Senate panel Tuesday advanced one of the three competing proposals for water bond measures, but lawmakers acknowledged that more negotiations will be required to reach a consensus on what to put before voters. Lawmakers have two months to approve a bond measure that would replace an […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Tahoe Public Utility District board members on Wednesday somewhat hamstrung future board’s when it comes to allowable rate increases. They also agreed to potential water and sewer increases that are well below what staff recommends. “It really decreases the water line replacements. Hopefully, there is not a fire in the area […]
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By Andrew Khouri, Los Angeles Times California renters must earn more than triple the minimum wage to afford a two-bedroom apartment, underscoring a housing shortage throughout the state, a report said. A worker earning the minimum wage — $8 per hour in California — would have to toil away for 130 hours a week to […]
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By Kathryn Reed Underage drug use and across-the-board abuse of drugs is nothing new. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of people sounding the alarm that more needs to be done at an earlier age if the cycle is going to broken, or at a minimum the number of users and abusers begins to […]
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By Matt Weiser, Sacramento Bee It’s amazingly easy to steal water from a California stream. Even in this epic drought, the state has no way of monitoring exactly who is tapping into its freshwater supplies and how much they take. And those who do get caught taking water they have no right to often are […]
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By Reid Wilson, Washington Post The average American family pays nearly $7,000 in state and local taxes in a given year, but the actual amounts vary wildly. A Californian who lives on the western side of Lake Tahoe pays almost three times more in state taxes than their neighbor on the Nevada side of the […]
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Publisher’s note: Lake Tahoe News asked the six El Dorado County supervisor candidates a series of questions. All are the same except for one that is specific to each candidate. The responses are being run in the order they were received by LTN. One candidate chose not to answer the questions. Name: “Gerri” Geraldine Grego […]
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By Kathryn Reed It’s likely the South Shore will not have a sanctioned fireworks display this Fourth of July, or even Labor Day weekend. It all has to do with a lawsuit that was filed last year because of the trash that continues to this day to spill forth on beaches in Nevada – more […]
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By Sean Whaley, Las Vegas Review Journal CARSON CITY — Officials from cash-hungry local governments are calling for changes to the property tax cap that was enacted by the Legislature in 2005 when land values were soaring, but state policymakers don’t appear ready at this point to entertain wholesale changes to the formula in the […]
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