By Tracie Cone, AP Scientists are assessing the damage from a massive wildfire burning around Yosemite National Park, laying plans to protect habitat and waterways as the fall rainy season approaches. Members of the federal Burned Area Emergency Response team were hiking the rugged Sierra Nevada terrain Saturday even as thousands of firefighters still were […]
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By Kathryn Reed SAN FRANCISCO – Who slept here? What were their communal meals like? What were there conversations? If only walls could talk. The Inn at the Presidio used to be where single officers would reside when this was an Army base. Today it is upscale lodging for civilians. Since the Army left in […]
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By Shan Li, Los Angeles Times Greta Goplen stood in position with a cane at the ready, like a ninja warding off invisible foes. As an instructor yelled out directions to the class — “left, left, jab, jab, nose! right, right, jab, jab, nose!” — the 59-year-old raised her walking stick and nimbly thrust it […]
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By Neil Irwin, Washington Post If you only looked at the headlines on Friday’s August jobs numbers, you’d think “Not bad!” You would also be completely wrong. Yes, the unemployment rate fell a notch to 7.3 percent, from 7.4 percent in July. Yes, the nation added 169,000 jobs, broadly consistent with the pattern of recent […]
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By Kathryn Reed A multimillion-dollar waterline project to bring Lukins Brothers Water Company customers fire protection started this week. The 4-inch lines are being replaced with 12-inch lines. Because the bank loan was secured later in the summer than anticipated, the first phase is being broken into two segments to accommodate the limited time contractors […]
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By Karoun Demirjian, Las Vegas Sun WASHINGTON — Asking Congress whether the U.S. should strike Syria put President Obama in an unusual position among U.S. presidents, who have usually engaged in military conflicts first and asked lawmakers for their opinions later. It’s also put the Nevada delegation in an awkward position. Thanks to the presidential […]
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Publisher’s note: The following is California Gov. Jerry Brown’s proclamation declaring September California Wine Month. By Jerry Brown The first vineyard in Spanish California was not planted within the area that would become our state, but rather at the short-lived Misión San Bruno in what is now the Mexican state of Baja California Sur. The […]
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By Kathryn Reed It might not matter that Lake Tahoe Unified School District didn’t do well on the latest round of standardized tests. On Sept. 4 the governor’s office, state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson, legislative leaders and the California Teachers Association agreed to amend Assembly Bill 484 so any school district could opt […]
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By Patrick McGreevy and Melanie Mason, Los Angeles Times SACRAMENTO — Internet users would get more protection for their confidential information under a bill that lawmakers sent Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday. The legislators also want Brown to extend carpool-lane access for owners of hybrid plug-in vehicles and to toughen state rules for storing guns. […]
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By Hudson Sangree, Sacramento Bee Nearly 6,400 acres of land in the scenic Martis Valley between Truckee and Lake Tahoe would be preserved under an agreement announced Wednesday among conservation groups, landowners and developers. The pine forests and sagebrush meadows to be protected flow down the slopes of Martis Peak, which borders the Tahoe basin […]
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