By Brad Plumer and Jim Tankersley, New York Times WASHINGTON — The Republican tax bills moving through Congress could significantly hobble the United States’ renewable energy industry because of a series of provisions that scale back incentives for wind and solar power while bolstering older energy sources like oil and gas production. The possibility highlights […]
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By Rick Maese, Washington Post While senior members of the Trump administration have suggested that tensions on the Korean Peninsula could force the United States to skip the Winter Olympics, the U.S. Olympic Committee on Friday reaffirmed its intention to send a full squad to the PyeongChang Games in February. USOC officials were taken aback […]
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By Elaine Glusac, New York Times In a DIY precursor to downhill skiing, the latest on-slope trend is to go uphill. Called skinning, the activity of walking up a downhill slope on skis to schuss back down exemplifies a no-pain, no-gain ethos among skiers determined to earn their turns for the sheer challenge (or to […]
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By Kathryn Reed Partnerships and collaboration are making a difference in Placer County. The California Tahoe Conservancy has been a huge player in getting water quality projects, bike trails and other improvements established. In all, the CTC has poured about $62 million into the lake portion Placer County. At the state agency’s board meeting last […]
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By Sam Stanton, Sacramento Bee Apple Hill has been an autumn destination for decades for Northern California families in search of fresh fruits, Halloween pumpkins, Christmas trees and wine tasting. Now, it is at the center of a legal fight over who can use the name “Apple Hill” to hawk their farm goods. The dispute […]
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By Susan Wood For over a decade, the Lake Tahoe Boys and Girls Club has represented a home away from home for hundreds of South Lake Tahoe youngsters. Now it needs a home itself. The thinking is eventually the Lake Tahoe Unified School District may want to reopen the Al Tahoe Elementary School, so shared […]
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By Kim Burrows, KRNV-TV Lake Tahoe is a popular place to rent a house on a short-term basis to hit the ski slopes in the winter and play on the beach in the summer. But the North Lake Tahoe Fire Protection District is worried about the safety in some houses. The danger has already cost […]
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By Emily Benson, High Country News The Fourmile Canyon Fire, sparked by a backyard burn west of Boulder, Colo., in 2010, caused $220 million in damage and destroyed 168 homes. It also scorched nearly a quarter of a watershed that supplies water to the nearby community of Pine Brook Hills. The problems didn’t end there: […]
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By Kathryn Reed When home is on the other side of a wall of fire that is headed your direction the choices can seem bleak. This was what several people encountered during the South Shore’s 2007 Angora Fire. They were working at Camp Richardson on that Tuesday in June when the fire jumped Highway 89. […]
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By Jenny Kane, Reno Gazette-Journal Despite complaints from some critics that Burning Man is already too big, the organization may make their main event even bigger. As Nevada Bureau of Land Management officials review how the annual, weeklong arts festival has affected the surrounding environment and communities since it moved to Nevada in 1990, Burning […]
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