By Heather Hansman, Ski Breckenridge ski patroller Hunter Mortensen says it never fails. The instant patrol responds to someone seriously sick or injured on the hill, a doctor skis by. “They want to help but they’re used to perfect light and perfect conditions,” Mortensen says. “Then they see me on my hands and knees managing an airway and they ski away.” And, […]
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By Lake Tahoe News Editorial Board “Don’t tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I’ll tell you what you value.” — Joe Biden That sentiment needs to be applied to the city of South Lake Tahoe and all other public agencies. When looking at the city’s budget for this fiscal year, which […]
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By Hiroko Tabuchi, New York Times SACRAMENTO — The Trump administration may appear to control climate policy in Washington, but the nation’s most dynamic environmental regulator is here in California. Mary D. Nichols, California’s electric-car-driving, hoodie-wearing, 72-year-old air quality regulator, is pressing ahead with a far-reaching agenda of environmental and climate actions. She says she […]
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By Michael R. Blood, AP Scientists. Tax collectors. Typists. Analysts. Lawyers. And more scientists. Recreational marijuana use becomes legal in California in 2018, and one of the things to blossom in the emerging industry isn’t green and leafy – it’s government jobs. The state is on a hiring binge to fill what eventually will be […]
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By Linda Fine Conaboy INCLINE VILLAGE – At least a thousand people sat shivering inside a huge tent under a brilliant icy blue Lake Tahoe sky, all captivated by Steve Wozniak as he talked about the beginnings of his company Apple Computer, Steve Jobs, his life as a teen in Silicon Valley, life at Hewlett-Packard, […]
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By Jenny Kane, Reno Gazette-Journal Nevada took a gamble on recreational marijuana, and it’s paying off. Dispensaries sold $27.1 million of pot in Nevada, in July alone. That’s almost double what Colorado and Oregon sold in their first months. It’s almost seven times what Washington sold. Banking on weed, Nevada made $10.2 million off the fledgling […]
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By Joshua Zaffos, High Country News A family heading to Yellowstone National Park this summer to sleep amid the geysers and grizzlies had lots of choice in accommodations. They could throw up a tent on a simple campsite without flush toilets for less than $20 a night. Campgrounds with full RV hookups, showers and bathrooms […]
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By Kathryn Reed Mount Rose is installing North America’s first dual enclosed conveyor belt lift to better serve beginners. It will be only the second one in the world. “Our learning terrain is very popular. The goal is to increase uphill capacity,” Mike Pierce, the resort’s spokesman, told Lake Tahoe News. The hope is that […]
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By Jessie Bekker, Las Vegas Review-Journal Opioid-related deaths dropped in Nevada in 2016 from a year earlier, but hospitalizations and prescription rates rose, Nevada Department of Health and Human Services data presented this week show. At the Opioid State Action Accountability Meeting in Carson City, convened by Gov. Brian Sandoval, state agencies said access […]
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By Jim Miller, Sacramento Bee California homeowners looking to move up would get a major financial break under a possible 2018 ballot measure to change a key provision of the state’s landmark tax law. Proposition 13, the 1978 ballot measure, has discouraged homeowners from moving to pricier homes because a property’s assessed value is based […]
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