By Brady McCombs, AP SALT LAKE CITY — More than three decades after the idea was first discussed, general managers at seven Utah ski resorts announced Wednesday they are committed to finally building a series of chairlifts that would link their ski areas and give the state a European-style experience. But it won’t be available […]
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By Kathryn Reed Expect some changes at the beaches this summer on the Nevada side of the South Shore. Now that the Forvilly family does not have the concession at Round Hill Pines Beach it also means the Bleu Wave boat is not docked there. It is at Zephyr Cove. Frank Forvilly, who with his […]
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By Kathryn Reed MEYERS – Passion for their community is one thing Meyers residents have in common. Oh, and most also think any future buildings should not be more than 35-feet tall. What started Wednesday night as a meeting to address six issues turned into a 2½-hour opportunity for about a dozen of the more […]
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By Stephen Siciliano, Bloomberg State actions on climate change are reducing emissions and offering templates for effective federal standards, according to Mary Nichols, chairwoman of the California Air Resources Board. Currently, Nichols said, climate regulation is on dual tracks, one state and one federal. California, she said, is on pace to achieve the 80 percent […]
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By Trevon Milliar, Las Vegas Review-Journal The vast majority of Nevada students struggle to read, conceded several local education officials on Tuesday. They didn’t debate the data. They focused on how to change it. Federal assessments show only 30 percent of Nevada eighth-graders read at the level they should, slightly more than the 27 percent […]
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By Kathryn Reed PLACERVILLE – DNA, motive and crime scene tactics will play a prominent role in the prosecution and defense of Andrew Sanford. Nearly two years to the day after being arrested in the 1980 murder of Richard Swanson, Sanford went on trial March 18 in El Dorado County Superior Court before Judge James […]
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By Laila Kearney, Reuters SAN FRANCISCO — California is coming off of its warmest winter on record, aggravating an enduring drought in the most populous state, federal weather scientists said Monday. The state had a average temperature of 48 for December, January and February, an increase from 47.2 F in 1980-81, the last hottest winter, […]
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By Elyce Kirchner, Kevin Nious and Jeremy Carroll, NBC Bay Area Unlike accidents on our highways, waterways, and theme parks, there is no system for independently tracking accidents at ski resorts, despite the fact that in California, most resorts are on federal land. Instead, accident tracking is left up to the ski industry to self-report, […]
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By Kathryn Reed Eyes swollen? Nose running? It’s allergy season in Tahoe and technically it’s not even spring. Mother Nature apparently has her own calendar. Trees are flowering in the Lake Tahoe Basin, bulbs are sprouting and some early bloomers are shining through. According to the Weather Channel, the pollen forecast for today on the […]
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By Henry Grabar, Salon If you were driving on an American highway earlier this month, you probably passed one. They came from Nashville, New York and New Orleans, from Boston and Seattle and Chicago and Los Angeles, and from four dozen other countries entirely: 2,000 musical acts, in vans brimming with equipment and ambition and […]
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