By Alexei Koseff, Sacramento Bee Every year, the California Legislature passes hundreds of bills, ranging from technical clarifications to funding proposals that keep the state running. How have they changed your world this time? Here are some of the new laws – the useful, the controversial, and the downright quirky – taking effect on Jan. […]
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By Seth Borenstein, AP North America couldn’t catch a break in 2017. Parts of the United States were on fire, underwater or lashed by hurricane winds. Mexico shook with back-to-back earthquakes. The Caribbean got hit with a string of hurricanes. The rest of the world, however, was spared more than usual from the drumbeat of […]
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By Kathryn Reed INCLINE VILLAGE – Gorgeous. It was the word I kept saying. It was almost as though I had never seen Lake Tahoe. The views from Diamond Peak are that good; they rival any view from any Tahoe resort. The superlatives are almost endless. Every 10 feet seemed like a Kodak moment. And […]
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By Lake Tahoe News Shorts weather is going to continue for the next couple days in the greater Lake Tahoe area. Record highs were broken several places on Dec. 29 and Dec. 30. The National Weather Service in Reno reports: South Lake Tahoe’s high on Saturday was 58 degrees, breaking the high of 53 set […]
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By Alyssa Pereira, San Francisco Chronicle William and Grace McCarthy made a life of traveling across the sunny and sometimes snowy state of California. William, an armament expert for the U.S. War Department, and his wife lived in San Francisco but traveled frequently to the corners of the state, taking in Yosemite vistas, the […]
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By Kathryn Reed How Herbert Avenue will tie into the redevelopment project where Whole Foods 365 is being built just became a little murkier. No longer is the commercial property on the corner of Herbert and Highway 50 locally owned. Chutima Vasakarnpanich and Tavewat Youngunpipatkul of Palo Alto closed on the property Nov. 30. Mike […]
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By Todd Dewey, Las Vegas Review-Journal Nevada sports books lost a record $11.4 million on baseball in November after bettors cashed on the Astros beating the Los Angeles Dodgers in Game 7 and on futures wagers on Houston to win the World Series. It was the largest baseball loss ever suffered in a month by […]
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By Kathryn Reed Parking is a growing problem on the South Shore. Those in the tourism industry want more people here. Those in the regulatory business want people out of their individual cars so they limit the number of parking spots that can built. Private businesses only want people parking there who are frequenting their […]
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By Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazette-Journal What a difference a year makes. The winter of 2017-18 is off to a slow start in the Sierra Nevada, a stark contrast from the record-busting snow totals last year. The contrast from last year is particularly evident in the Lake Tahoe Basin where winter is off to its third-driest […]
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By Jenny Kane, Reno Gazette-Journal Ski resorts in Nevada and California say that they are plenty prepared for stoners on the slopes because, frankly, it’s not a new problem. “It really shouldn’t change much of anything. Legalizing marijuana is not an invitation to come to the ski resort and smoke marijuana,” said Michael Reitzell, spokesman for […]
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