By Alex Park and Julia Lurie, Mother Jones California, supplier of nearly half of all U.S. fruits, veggies, and nuts, is on track to experience the driest year in the past half millennium. Farms use about 80 percent of the state’s “developed water,” or water that’s moved from its natural source to other areas via […]
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By Kathryn Reed Lake Tahoe taxpayers have not directly paid for any of the buildings at Lake Tahoe Community College. But that could soon change. The college is contemplating going to the voters in November with a general obligation bond between $35 million and $55 million. This would be spent on facilities. The board this […]
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By Dominique Mosbergen, Huffington Post The exercise habits of the average American are appalling, according to a study recently published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings. For the study, scientists tracked the activity of 2,600 people for two years. They found that obese women average a mere 11 seconds a day of vigorous exercise (that’s about an […]
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By NPR The Lodo Wellness Center in Denver has been selling medical marijuana for several years. But since Jan. 1, when marijuana in Colorado officially moved from underground to behind-the-counter, they’ve also been selling legal, recreational pot. A majority of Americans now say they support full legalization, and the trend is spreading: Legal weed is […]
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By Jessie Marchesseau Anyone who has lived in Lake Tahoe for a while has heard stories of the impending tsunami if an earthquake occurs. In reality, those stories may not be too far off. And the earthquake may not be either. The California Geological Survey has been taking a closer look at the West Tahoe […]
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By Coral Davenport, New York Times WASHINGTON — President Obama’s annual budget request to Congress will propose a significant change in how the government pays to fight wildfires, administration officials said, a move that they say reflects the ways in which climate change is increasing the risk for and cost of those fires. The wildfire […]
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By Scott Sonner, AP RENO — The head of the government’s $70 million wild-horse management program warned last summer that it is headed for financial collapse unless “drastic changes” are made in the decades-old roundup policy she said could be setting U.S. rangeland-improvement goals back 20 years. In a strongly worded internal memo to an […]
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By Kathryn Reed In many ways it’s an emergency room or intensive care unit that flies. Calstar – or California Shock Trauma Air Rescue – has a base at Lake Tahoe Airport that makes runs down to Mammoth, far into Nevada, up to Quincy and over to Georgetown. But much of the work the pilots […]
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By Mark Koba, CNBC Three years of severe drought have made plenty of misery for California and other Western states. Now to make matters worse, the extremely dry conditions are creating the potential for a devastating fire season. “All the pieces are in place for a really bad season of wildfires,” said Malcolm North, a […]
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By Richard N. Velotta, Las Vegas Sun Gamblers will soon be able to use prepaid access cards to play slot machines in Nevada, a technological advancement that has some critics concerned that easier access to cash in a casino would broaden problem gambling. The Nevada Gaming Commission on Thursday approved amendments to two regulations that […]
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