Placer County has scheduled two housing fee study workshops in June, one in Kings Beach and another in Auburn. The workshops will offer an opportunity to comment on two recently completed studies about fees charged to developers to help fund workforce and affordable housing projects. The Kings Beach meeting will be June 6 from 6-7:30pm […]
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By Sean Whaley and Ben Botkin, Las Vegas Review-Journal CARSON CITY — A bill that requires school districts statewide to offer dual credit courses to high school students so they can simultaneously pursue higher education degrees and certifications was signed into law Wednesday by Gov. Brian Sandoval. Sandoval signed Senate Bill 19 at Western Nevada […]
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By Kathryn Reed Communication. It was a dominate part of Lake Tahoe Unified School District’s board of education’s discussion this week. There are some board members who want to get their message out to parents and the broader community in a more proactive way. Communication from the district, though, has usually been through the superintendent’s […]
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By Associated Press Nevada is joining South Carolina as the only states with laws directing all police officers to wear body cameras. Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval signed a Democratic bill on Thursday making audio-visual recording devices a standard feature of uniforms for any law enforcement officer who routinely interacts with the public. It expands a […]
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By Phillip Reese, Sacramento Bee Schools in the El Dorado County community of Georgetown thrived a decade ago, with close to 2,000 students enrolled in classes. Today, barely 1,250 students attend Georgetown schools – a number that will likely continue to fall. New enrollment projections from the California Department of Finance predict El Dorado will […]
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By Mike Wolterbeek With a record mountain snowpack changing to a “robust,” above normal, significant fire potential, wildland firefighting agencies are gearing up for another fire season – and UNR is ramping up its AlertTahoe HD/4K fire camera system, which overlooks and helps protect dozens of western mountain ranges and hundreds of square miles of […]
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The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency Governing Board on May 24 approved the residential allocation numbers. They are handed out every two years. For 2017-18: 20 for Douglas County 60 for El Dorado County 74 for Placer County 66 for South Lake Tahoe 20 for Washoe County. When the Local Government Committee meets in August, the […]
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Nevada Highway Patrol investigators believe speed contributed to the Tuesday night rollover accident near the bottom of Kingsbury Grade in Carson Valley that injured one person. The man was heading east on the grade at 9:30pm May 23. “He was negotiating a curve, overcorrected to the right, went broadside, came in contact with the end […]
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By Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazette-Journal Nevada’s peak wildfire season could be late but it won’t be meek, if history is any guide. That’s because the record-busting winter snow and rain that soaked the state will leave behind a bumper crop rangeland grasses that will serve as fuel for late-summer fires. The northern and central areas […]
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By Kathryn Reed One incredibly wet winter will not rid the West of the beetle infestation that has devastated forests, especially in California where more than 102 million trees have died since 2010. “Bark beetles are still there. They will hatch and fly in early summer. Then we’ll expect to see additional mortality, but at […]
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