By Nashelly Chavez, Sacramento Bee The northern Sierra Nevada, which supplies water for much of the rest of California, is poised to surpass its wettest year in recorded history well before the rainy season comes to a close. As of Saturday morning, the region had accumulated an average of 87.5 inches of water across eight […]
Read more
Kingsbury Grade is open following repairs to an eroding roadside slope and extensive rockfall. NDOT has been monitoring roadside slopes across the region, including a slope on Kingsbury Grade which had slid approximately 1 foot within a recent 24-hour period, posing the threat of bringing mud, rock and debris across the highway. Additionally, approximately four-foot […]
Read more
By Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazette-Journal The mountain snowpack is fat but funding to unravel what it means for western communities and the environment is thin. That’s the dynamic facing scientists who study climate, snow and water in California and Nevada. They gathered Thursday for the fifth Great Basin Climate Forum at the Desert Research Institute […]
Read more
By Cassie Wilson, KRNV-TV The water flows of the Truckee River are currently 3.5 times the average rate, thanks to early snow melt as well as precaution. Crews have been releasing water from Lake Tahoe and other upstream reservoirs since the end of February to make room for snow melt still to come. Lake Tahoe […]
Read more
By Judy Lin, Los Angeles Times More than 20 times in the last 15 years, political leaders looking to control California’s fast-growing public pension costs have tried to put reform initiatives before the voters. None of the proposals has made it onto the ballot. Often, advocates could not raise enough money for signature gathering, advertising […]
Read more
By Ben Steverman, Bloomberg Nancy Harvey has a goal. “I’d like to retire before dying,” she said. Harvey, 55, has almost nothing saved for retirement. She’s a child-care provider in Oakland, and there isn’t much left over at the end of the month. “It’s not a lucrative field,” she said. She was looking forward to a […]
Read more
The Douglas County Board of Commissioners have declared a state of emergency in preparation for the potential of flooding associated with spring runoff and for stormy conditions such as this weekend. The declaration has been submitted to the state and will allow regional partners to expedite mitigation efforts as well as speed up the delivery […]
Read more
By Mark McLaughlin, Tahoe Weekly There’s been a lot of talk about weather records being broken this winter, but it was only January’s epic snowfall totals that have made it into the record books so far. In January 2017, the Central Sierra Snow Lab near Donner Pass and many Tahoe Sierra resorts set new monthly […]
Read more
Updated 4:56pm: Kingsbury Grade will remain closed indefinitely between Daggett Summit and Foothill Road. The highway was expected to be closed temporarily on Friday as NDOT and contractor Q&D Construction removed loose trees and earth from a roadside slope to help reduce rock and mud fall onto the highway. What they found is the slope […]
Read more
By Bettina Boxall, Los Angeles Times Startlingly green hills, surging rivers and the snow-wrapped Sierra Nevada had already signaled what Gov. Jerry Brown made official on Friday: The long California drought is over. “This drought emergency is over, but the next drought could be around the corner,” Brown said in a statement. “Conservation must […]
Read more