By Emily Cadei, Sacramento Bee Washington It’s a rare point of bipartisan agreement in divided Washington: The federal system for funding firefighting is broken, and that’s hurting our ability to prevent fires from breaking out in the first place. But lawmakers are at a loggerheads over how to fix the problem, a split that breaks […]
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By Kathryn Reed While a contract has not been signed, most of the particulars have been worked out to ensure SnowGlobe, the three-day music festival, returns to South Lake Tahoe in December. Lake Tahoe Community College is having a different role this year compared to the past. No longer will buildings on campus be used […]
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By Rebecca Ash, UCLA California has taken a wild weather ride over the past two years: A historic drought finally came to an end, and the winter of 2016–17 was the wettest winter in decades. Meanwhile, recent studies have projected that climate change will turn up the heat by up to 10 degrees in the […]
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Publisher’s note: The smoke blowing into the Lake Tahoe Basin and Truckee on Oct. 11 is from the Wine Country fires. By Stuart Leavenworth, Sacramento Bee A cascade of extreme weather events fed Northern California’s wildfires that exploded Sunday: Unusually high winds blew flames through unusually dense and dry vegetation, which sprang up following last […]
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By Kathryn Reed Combined, Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows ski resorts are getting $4 million worth of safety improvements that will be used starting this season. All are centered on avalanche control. A variety of tools have been added. For the first time a helicopter will be enlisted. The resort is leasing an ASTAR AS-350B3 […]
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By Sean Whaley and Ben Botkin, Las Vegas Review-Journal Just as the Sandy Hook school shooting prompted efforts to regulate gun policies in Nevada in 2013, the mass shooting in Las Vegas on Oct. 1 will likely result in a new push when the Legislature convenes in 2019. As one lawmaker described it, the gun […]
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By Peter Fimrite, San Francisco Chronicle It could take decades and cost billions to build enough housing to make even a modest dent in home prices across the state, a team of economists reported. Jerry Nickelsburg, director of the UCLA forecast team, said it would take 20 percent more housing to achieve a 10 percent […]
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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 Susan Wood PARK CITY, Utah – The girl next door may become an even bigger household name. Olympic gold medalist Maddie Bowman of Meyers is gearing up in […]
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By Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazette-Journal Add “moose attack” to your list of hazards in the Nevada backcountry. The state’s northern reaches appear to be home to a small but growing number of the gangly ungulates, according to the Nevada Department of Wildlife. The increased number of sightings suggests moose are no longer just visiting the […]
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By Julie Johnson, Santa Rosa Press Democrat To understand Californians’ favorite methods for ingesting cannabis, Joshua Hoffman likens it to the different ways of experiencing music. Think of smoking cannabis flowers like attending a live concert, he said. The second most popular method — vape pens — is like listening to a CD on high-end […]
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