By Kathryn Reed Starting Jan. 1 it is going to cost money to recreate in parts of Hope Valley. The land affected is owned by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. In Alpine County the areas are known as Hope Valley Wildlife Area-North Unit, Hope Valley Wildlife Area-South Unit, and Red Lake Wildlife Area. […]
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By Helen Coffey, Independent USA vs Europe: which is best for a ski or snowboard holiday? The whole experience becomes very different depending on which side of the pond you’re on – off-piste etiquette, chair-lift queuing, après ski and even the kind of snow you’re turning on all vary wildly between continents. We look at […]
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By Angela Schilling, KTVN-TV Lake Tahoe is the fullest it’s been for this time of year since the mid 1980s, and according to the National Weather Service, the region would need to have more than one dry winter to go back into a drought. It usually takes about three dry years for Lake Tahoe to […]
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By Kathryn Reed Specific bins for green waste may be coming to South Tahoe Refuse customers. The garbage company, which operates on the South Shore in El Dorado and Douglas counties, conducted a pilot program this fall to see how customers liked the service. About 125 households near Sierra House Elementary School were give a […]
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By Colton Lochhead Las Vegas Review-Journal California is set to join the legal weed party Jan. 1 when recreational sales become official in the Golden State. The state was one of four, including Nevada, that voted in 2016 to legalize the recreational use of marijuana. With sales projected to top $5 billion once the market […]
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By Emily Cadei, McClatchy California’s House members are joining across party lines to call for $4.4 billion for wildfire recovery from Congress, a unified statement that boosts the state’s chances of securing much-needed funds to help rebuild after this fall’s devastating fires. The request is also a rebuke of the White House, which sent a […]
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By Kathryn Reed MINDEN – Meandering through grasses more than 6-feet high, mesmerized by sage bushes just as tall and with thick trunks, a brief oops where the trek went through slick mud, the Carson River wending its way through the valley as the snow covered Sierra peaks scratched the sky – all of this […]
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By Daria Sokolova View, Las Vegas Review Journal When the Nevada Department of Transportation switched the design of the longtime “Welcome to Nevada” sign this year, a battle for the pieces of history ensued. Department spokesman Tony Illia said he was shocked by the amount of interest in the old highway fixtures. “You cannot believe […]
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By Ed Pilkington, Guardian The United Nations monitor on extreme poverty and human rights has embarked on a coast-to-coast tour of the U.S. to hold the world’s richest nation – and its president – to account for the hardships endured by America’s most vulnerable citizens. The tour, which kicked off on Friday morning, will make […]
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By Kathryn Reed I call it getting my boobs squeezed. It’s an annual ritual most women of a certain age subject themselves to – the mammogram. While I won’t say the new machine Barton Memorial Hospital has is something I would want to experience any more often, it is better than the old piece of […]
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