By David R. Baker, San Francisco Chronicle Four California legislators on Monday said they plan to introduce a bill that would bar electric utilities from passing on to their customers the costs of wildfires caused by the companies’ negligence. The move comes as investigators are exploring whether Pacific Gas and Electric Co. power lines […]
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Publisher’s note: This is one in a series of stories about affordable housing in the Lake Tahoe-Truckee region. All articles may be accessed via the home page under Special Projects, 2017 Affordable Housing. By Linda Fine Conaboy Few things are more important than a roof over our heads—preferably one that doesn’t leak. But as the […]
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By Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times What does it take to get Californians to save water during a massive drought? Apparently, a lot of ink and newsprint helps. Extensive news coverage of the state’s historic drought prompted residents to conserve water, research out of Stanford University suggests. The more that major newspapers wrote about […]
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By Seth Borenstein and Emily Swanson, San Francisco Chronicle After hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria blitzed the nation, most Americans think weather disasters are getting more severe and see global warming’s fingerprints. A poll from the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds that 68 percent of Americans think weather disasters seem to be […]
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Publisher’s note: This is one of a series of stories about Lake Tahoe area athletes who hope to compete in the 2018 Olympics in South Korea. By Kathryn Reed PARK CITY, Utah – In a sport where fractions of a second can make the difference between being on the podium or not, what one wears […]
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By Mark Glover, Sacramento Bee Jose Medina has Nov. 1 circled on his calendar, because “that’s the day the gas goes boom.” More to the point, it’s the day that a 12-cent increase in the base gasoline excise tax goes into effect statewide. Senate Bill 1 was signed into law earlier this year by Gov. […]
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By April Corbin, Las Vegas Sun In July, the House Appropriations Committee voted to remove language from the Interior Department’s budget that prohibits the “destruction of healthy, unadopted wild horses and burros” managed by the Bureau of Land Management in the American West. Groups like the American Wild Horse Campaign that seek to protect the […]
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By Susan Wood STATELINE – It was nothing short of phenomenal. Armed with an all-star ensemble of accomplished musicians who could seize the stage on their own, Chris Botti showed an enthusiastic Harrah’s South Shore Room crowd that live jazz is anything but dead. Botti is a rock star on the trumpet, taking the audience […]
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By Seth Borenstein, AP Winter is coming … later. And it’s leaving ever earlier. Across the United States, the year’s first freeze has been arriving further and further into the calendar, according to more than a century of measurements from weather stations nationwide. Scientists say it is yet another sign of the changing climate, and […]
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By Jason Blevins, Denver Post Ski resort companies are shouldering more responsibility for workforce housing after years working in the background with community partnerships. In Telluride, Colo., resort owner Bill Jensen spent $6 million this year on homesites and revamping an empty apartment complex for employees. Aspen Skiing spent $4 million on 40 tiny homes […]
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