By Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle As hotter and bigger fires blaze through the West and yet another year passes with a disastrous toll, America’s wildlands are having a harder time bouncing back. Some spots, from the singed valleys of Wine Country to the steep slopes of the Sierra, may never look the same. […]
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By Kathryn Reed PHILLIPS STATION – A major component of the first snow of the year was missing – snow. Even so, there was something to measure. On Jan. 3 the California Department of Water Resources recorded an average depth of 1.3 inches of snow in the field adjacent to the entrance of Sierra-at-Tahoe. This […]
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By Phillip Reese, Sacramento Bee 2017 will go down as one of the worst in California wildfire history, the latest state fire statistics show. Large wildfires destroyed or damaged more than 10,000 structures in California last year, a higher tally than the last nine years combined. Large wildfires had killed 43 people – 41 civilians […]
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By Debra J. Saunders, Las Vegas Review-Journal WASHINGTON — Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., readily admits he “wasn’t one of the biggest supporters” of President Donald Trump during the 2016 election. “I didn’t know him. He didn’t know me.” But now that the two know each other better, Heller told the Review-Journal, they have a “much […]
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Updated at 8:04pm: By Kathryn Reed Just weeks ago the brand new sod fields in South Lake Tahoe were green and a dormant brown color. Now it’s raw dirt. What happened? The three-day music festival SnowGlobe. “I am horrified by the condition of the field. We were told that SnowGlobe was going to invest $1 […]
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By Bruce Fessier, Desert Sun Twenty years ago this week, Sonny Bono went missing at Heavenly Mountain Resort. He was a Palm Springs icon, born Salvatore Phillip Bono to a Sicilian peasant and a second-generation Italian-American whose marriage was arranged when his mother was 14. In Washington, D.C., he was the Honorable Sonny Bono, Republican […]
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By Kathryn Reed INCLINE VILLAGE – Even though recreational pot could be sold in California as of this year, only one place in the Lake Tahoe Basin is doing so – and that’s in Nevada. NuLeaf has been selling medicinal marijuana since July 1, 2016, and recreationally since Aug. 5, 2017. “We’ve gotten a lot […]
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By Kimber Laux, Las Vegas Review-Journal Several laws adopted by the Nevada Legislature in 2017 sprang into effect just after midnight Monday. Amid the new crop of legislation are laws that require state insurance plans to cover contraceptives, strengthen penalties for guardians who abuse or neglect vulnerable persons in their care, and increase regulations on […]
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By Kathryn Reed Disrupter. That’s what Airbnb has been to the lodging industry and communities where it operates. Airbnb is part tech company, part lodging company, part tourism company. It is anything but ordinary. And that’s what those who like it love about it. Author Leigh Gallagher captures the entrepreneurial spirit of the three men […]
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By Kathryn Reed Just because the headlines of 2017 are in the past does not mean the issues are gone. #MeToo or as Time magazine called the movement – The Silence Breakers in naming them the person of the year – is bound to be a significant carryover into 2018. While the high profile cases […]
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