By Kathryn Reed PLACERVILLE – Coming off one of the warmest Julys on record, a June that saw several triple digit days and an August that has a forecast for the 80s later this week – being a winemaker can cause one’s head to spin or the need to open another bottle to take off […]
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Nevada Department of Wildlife officials today killed a 3-year-old male black bear they said was a threat to public safety. The bear had initially been caught in Glenbrook on June 24. A tag was put in its ear so it could be identified in the future if it caused problems. It was released in the […]
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By Jack Newsham, Sacramento Bee Foothill residents, as well some property owners in the Lake Tahoe Basin, are bracing for the second year of “fire prevention fees,” a $150 charge that a class-action lawsuit alleges is an illegal tax. The state Board of Equalization began sending bills two weeks ago to more than 700,000 Californians […]
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Publisher’s note: The children’s memorial on Highway 50 and Wildwood Avenue in South Lake Tahoe will be rededicated on Aug. 9 at 6pm. Tahoe Production House is filming the ceremony as part of a documentary that will be available on DVD. The following is from the committee that has spearheaded the replacement of the log that […]
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By Tracie Cone, AP SACRAMENTO — Across the West, early miners digging for gold, silver and copper had no idea that one day something else very valuable would be buried in the piles of dirt and rocks they tossed aside. There’s a rush in the U.S. to find key components of cellphones, televisions, weapons systems, […]
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By Hudson Sangree, Sacramento Bee The first six months of 2013 brought a remarkably fast recovery to the regional real estate market. Figures from DataQuick, a San Diego real estate information firm, show median single-family home prices jumping anywhere from 15 percent to 50 percent across much of the four-county Sacramento region. There were a […]
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By Kathryn Reed A new bike trail is going in at Carnelian Bay. Trees are being felled, berms created and gap jumps installed. And whoever is creating this trail on U.S. Forest Service property could wind up in jail and having to pay a fine. “When we have to obliterate unauthorized trails, it takes crews […]
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By Andrew Doughman, Las Vegas Sun Federal water experts and climatologists on Friday issued a grim report on the future of the Colorado River watershed to lawmakers from around the West in Las Vegas. But perhaps no other state has as much at stake in the river’s declining conditions as Nevada. Managing the Colorado River […]
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By Ricardo Lopez, Los Angeles Times They aren’t leaving the nest. More than one-third of millennials still live with their parents, the highest share in their age group in at least 40 years, according to a Pew Research Center analysis released Thursday. Last year, a record 21.6 million adults ages 18-31 lived in their parents’ […]
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By Kathryn Reed Not everyone is buying what the U.S. Forest Service is selling. What the feds are selling is that changing how the Upper Truckee River flows is a good thing. What many on a tour of the project weren’t buying is whether this four-year $4 million project is needed. Seventeen people on Aug. […]
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