Kathryn Reed No one is counting the beavers in the Lake Tahoe Basin. No one knows if the population is growing, decreasing or has stayed stagnant through the decades. No one is even managing them. But anyone who wants to touch the beavers’ habitat or potentially do anything to the water they are building dams […]
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When the Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences building opened a few years ago at Sierra Nevada College it was immediately heralded as being extremely green. The accolades for the Incline Village school continue with it being featured in the recently released book “The World’s Greenest Buildings” by Jerry Yudelson and Ulf Meyer. “(The book) provides […]
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By Matt Weiser, Sacramento Bee California today was declared to be out of compliance with the federal Clean Water Act because it is sitting on $455 million that should be spent to improve local drinking water systems. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency submitted the notice after years of fruitless efforts to get the state to […]
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By Anne Knowles Only a handful of people showed up for a local open house conducted this week by the U.S. Forest Service to get feedback on its controversial stance on water rights for ski resorts. The Thursday afternoon meeting in the Forest Service office in South Lake Tahoe followed earlier and similarly attended meetings […]
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By Katharine Q. Seely, William K. Rashbaum and Michael Cooper, New York Times BOSTON — The teenage suspect in the marathon bombings, whose flight from the police after a furious gunfight early Friday morning sparked an intense manhunt that virtually shut down the entire Boston metropolitan area all day, was taken into custody Friday night […]
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By Robert S. Wood BAJA, Mexico – Do whales seek human playmates? The adventure company brochure didn’t quite claim they did, but it intriguingly reported that many a mama gray whale saw fit to bring her newborn 1 ton baby up to visit small open boats in a Mexican lagoon, even sometimes allowing the babies […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – Tahoe doesn’t have it. It could. But it’s going to take a concerted effort for that to happen. That was the message delivered Thursday by two women who know tourism. The it is what it takes to be on the list of places foreign visitors want to travel to. Caroline […]
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By Torey Van Oot, Sacramento Bee California’s state auditor has found shortcomings in management and oversight of special license plate programs meant to provide funding for causes like Lake Tahoe, anti-terrorism efforts and state parks. The report, released today, found that the state has failed to collect more than $22 million in revenue that should […]
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By Ed Fletcher, Sacramento Bee In a scene that might have made Smokey Bear cringe, on a 100-degree day last July, a Sacramento man – in full view of his family and other witnesses – tossed a 2-inch diameter firework into a remote Placer County swimming hole. An ember from the explosion shot 25 feet […]
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By Kathryn Reed PLACERVILLE – Based on the number of cases leaving wineries and headed for vehicles, wine sales in El Dorado County are doing well. Granted, buyers could have been lured by last weekend being the first of two weekends of the annual Passport where there are some special deals going on that aren’t […]
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