By Jeff Delong, Reno Gazette-Journal In a place defined by its mining history, ambitious plans to pull new riches of gold and silver from the ground stand to shape the future of the Comstock. Representatives of Comstock Mining Inc., plan to “revitalize the Comstock” through mining during the next 30 years, a long-term project they […]
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While all the work is not complete on Echo Summit, Highway 50 will be open in both directions without controls to bring people into and out of the South Shore for Memorial Day weekend. The construction company doing the work on the wall replaced the heavy lifting ahead of schedule, which allowed the full closure […]
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The Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board reports that emergency treatment of acid mine drainage stored in ponds at the Leviathan Mine Superfund site in Alpine County has successfully prevented discharge of approximately 3 million gallons of untreated toxic water to Leviathan Creek, a tributary of the East Fork of the Carson River. As a […]
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By Susan Wood ZEPHYR COVE – An international youth hostel, university retreat, performing arts facility, senior center outpost, culinary arts program, seasonal housing or multi-purpose sports complex – all represent a possible next stage in development for the “moth-balled” Kingsbury Middle School closed a few years ago because of declining enrollment. That was the essence […]
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Joseph Scanio, the South Lake Tahoe registered sex offender who was arrested last week, is back behind bars. He was arrested May 26 about 3pm at his Wyoming Avenue home on a federal warrant for violating the terms of his supervised release. U.S. probation informed South Lake Tahoe police Scanio had violated his probation by […]
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By Kathryn Reed Both ends of the lake will be having erosion control measures put in thanks to grants provided by the California Tahoe Conservancy. At the CTC’s meeting this month the board unanimously agreed to spend up to $1.675 million on the second phase of the Al Tahoe Erosion Control Project in South Lake […]
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By Amina Khan, Los Angeles Times Hit the snooze on that ecological doomsday clock for a minute: The world’s species may not be going extinct quite as fast as we thought they were. Scientists may be overestimating the crisis by as much as 160 percent, according to a recent study. The research was published online […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe education officials are cautiously optimistic Gov. Jerry Brown’s budget will stay intact as presented earlier this month – at least when it comes to dollars for schools. The Friday before Brown released his proposal on May 16 all the predictions were dire. Lake Tahoe Unified School District CFO Deb […]
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By Peter Hecht, Sacramento Bee Supervisors in El Dorado County voted Tuesday to right a historic wrong by replacing 36 cemetery headstones that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers labeled with a racist slur in 1954. When the Corps built Folsom Dam on the American River that year, it moved remains from a cemetery in […]
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By Bill O’Driscoll, Reno Gazette-Journal Those little paper tickets showing slot machine winnings can add up to big numbers, and the state wants a bite of the bounty that’s never cashed in. Once-coin-filled slot machines are now ticket-in, ticket-out cash-less games, and jackpots that used to clang into the coin bins now are spit out […]
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