By Laura Dattaro, Weather Channel When it snows in Utah, Tim Garrett likes to watch the storm. He looks outside, watching the blurry mess of white fill the window, the Wasatch Mountains in the background. But he also looks at his computer screen, where he sees a live feed of photographs of tiny, individual snowflakes, […]
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By Meagan Clark, International Business Times U.S. infrastructure — roads, bridges, rail, drinking water, waste water, solid waste and more—is close to flunking according to a recent assessment from the American Society of Civil Engineers. Once every four years, America’s civil engineers assess the nation’s infrastructure with an A to F report card. The engineers […]
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By Kathryn Reed It’s possible South Tahoe Public Utility District customers could be paying $78.60 more a year for water and sewer service starting July 1. This breaks down to another $4.40 per month for water over 10 years and $2.15 a month for sewer in the same time period. It’s called the “optimum” plan […]
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By Cindy Hirschfeld, New York Times It’s every skier’s dream: to arrive at a resort just after a good storm, take one of the first lifts up and ply delightfully fresh, powdery tracks. The reality, though, is that most of us can’t drop everything to chase storms. We have to plan a ski trip in […]
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By Anahad O’Connor, New York Times A federal report shows that the percentage of American high school students who smoke marijuana is slowly rising, while the use of alcohol and almost every other drug is falling. The report raises concerns that the relaxation of restrictions on marijuana, which can now be sold legally in 20 […]
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By Kathryn Reed Mountain biking. That could be what Heavenly Mountain Resort is known for in the future. Maps with colorful squiggly lines filled the U.S. Forest Service conference room Wednesday night as people came and went during an informal information meeting about the South Shore resort’s plans to turn the mountain into more of […]
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By Eliza Barclay, NPR To feed all 7 billion of us, address climate change and live longer, we all need to eat less meat. From Al Gore to the Meatless Monday movement to Harvard epidemiologists, that’s been the resounding advice offered to consumers lately. But hold up a minute, says Mario Herrero, the chief research […]
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By Heather Segale On Aug. 17, the largest recorded wildfire in the Sierra Nevada and the third largest in California history started in Stanislaus National Forest. This devastating fire burned more than 250,000 acres and took two months to contain. The effects of the fire on the terrestrial ecosystem will certainly last for years. Here […]
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By Kathryn Reed While it’s the music that draws people to SnowGlobe, it is Alyssa Byrne who is on so many people’s minds. The 19-year-old Petaluma woman died last year of hypothermia as she tried to walk from the concert venue to her Stateline hotel. A lasting legacy of the tragedy is the Always Buddy […]
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By Carma Hassan and Michael Martinez, CNN A gunman and another person were killed during a shooting Tuesday at a medical building at Renown Medical Center, said Tom Robinson of the Reno Police Department. Two other people were injured and were being treated at a hospital, Robinson said. The shooter, who carried one weapon, died […]
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