By Max Ehrenfreund, Sacramento Bee A dry winter has turned into a busy summer for firefighters in California’s wildlands, and the largest and most intense fires of the year may be yet to come. According to data provided by the U.S. Forest Service, wildfires had already burned 276,252 acres across the state as of last […]
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By Kathryn Reed It has been 10 years since the South Lake Tahoe parking garage at Heavenly Village opened. It’s been a financial boondoggle since Day 1. Today it is in technical default and the city is on course to default on the bond payments. When the area near Stateline was redeveloped, the city of […]
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By Kevin Yamamura, Sacramento Bee The state Department of Parks and Recreation routinely searched for ways to spend extra money each June despite facing the threat of park closures and forgoing upkeep at its 278 properties, based on newly released transcripts from an internal investigation. Testimony from 30 interviews with state employees portrays parks administrators […]
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By Eliza Barclay, NPR Doctors need to prescribe exercise to patients who don’t get enough exercise, a Mayo Clinic expert says. “You’ve got a bad case of deconditioning,” the doctor says. Actually, it would be the rare doctor who would say that to anyone. And though it might sound like something to do with hair, […]
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By Sean Whaley, Nevada News Bureau Nevada retailers and their online counterparts expect to see $245 million in spending on back-to-school merchandise for public school children this year, a 15.4 percent increase over spending levels in 2011, the Retail Association of Nevada reported this week. College spending in Nevada is expected to generate another $134 […]
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By Jack Dolan, Los Angeles Times California transportation officials have spent millions of dollars making overpriced, unjustified repairs to houses the state owns in and around Pasadena, according to an audit released Thursday. Caltrans bought the houses decades ago to bulldoze for the long-planned, never built extension of the 710 Freeway. The agency has spent […]
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By Lisa Rein, Washington Post When the Food and Drug Administration started spying on a group of agency scientists, it installed monitoring software on their laptop computers to capture their communications. The software, sold by SpectorSoft of Vero Beach, Fla., could do more than vacuum up the scientists’ e-mails as they complained to lawmakers and […]
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By Sean Whaley, Nevada News Bureau CARSON CITY – Rep. Mark Amodei, R-Nev., said this week that any “green energy” policy that leads to higher electric bills for Nevadans who are looking for work in tough economic times is the wrong energy policy for the state. “Nobody is anti-green,” he said. “We struggle to compete […]
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By Kathryn Reed Fire station No. 2 has been the subject of conversations for years because it’s so old (circa 1940s when it was part of the Lake Valley Fire Department) and inadequate. A proposal being floated is to test closing the station for five days. At any given time only two people staff the […]
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By Ravali Reddy, Sacramento Bee The California Department of Fish and Game continues to seek information about the shooting of a bear that was found dead on a beach in Homewood late last month. BEAR.jpegThe investigation has revealed that Sunny, a black bear, was shot at close range. The type of wound the bear suffered […]
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