By Claudia Buck, Sacramento Bee Complaints against physicians for misconduct have dogged the Medical Board of California for years. Some say the system is broken, with patients unable to easily figure out if their doctor has been disciplined. With complaints rising – more than 8,000 lodged annually over the past three years – the issue […]
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By Doyle Rice, USA Today The planet sizzled to its second-warmest winter on record, failing to oust the 2015-2016 season from the top spot, federal scientists announced Friday. The global temperature for the months of December, January and February soared to 1.6 degrees above average this winter, according to National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data. That’s a huge amount […]
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By Scott Sonner, AP Sierra Club lawyers who’ve preached against the environmental evils of coal-burning power plants for decades are trying to force the closure of the last significant one in renewable energy-rich Nevada with arguments based on a different sort of green: money. “It used to be that we had to come in and […]
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By Gary Martin, Las Vegas Review-Journal A $1.1 trillion budget blueprint by President Trump that includes a revival of Yucca Mountain as a repository for nuclear waste was declared “dead on arrival” Thursday by Nevada’s two U.S. senators. And Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval, a Republican, said opposition in the state to the proposal would be […]
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By Chris Kudialis, Las Vegas Sun CARSON CITY — If recent assertions against recreational marijuana made by leaders in President Donald Trump’s administration come to fruition, Nevada would have few options for stopping federal intervention, Gov. Brian Sandoval said this week. “That was always an issue — it’s illegal under federal law,” Sandoval told the […]
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By Kathryn Reed TAHOE CITY – Killing aquatic invasive weeds in Lake Tahoe with ultraviolet C light will be tried for the first time this summer. The California Tahoe Conservancy board on March 16 agreed to spend $260,128 on the pilot project in South Lake Tahoe. The money was awarded to the Tahoe Resource Conservation […]
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By Mitch Smith, New York Times OMAHA — After living more than 40 years along a road plagued by potholes, Jo Anne Amoura was excited to see city crews shred her block of Leavenworth Street into gravel. “I thought, ‘Oh my gosh, this is great. We’re going to get a new street,’” Ms. Amoura recalled. […]
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By Amy Graff, San Francisco Chronicle The depressing scene of boat docks sitting high and dry on wide beaches around Lake Tahoe will likely be a fleeting memory this summer. Winter’s unrelenting storms built up a substantial Sierra snowpack and are expected to fill the lake for the first time in 11 years. Lake Tahoe’s […]
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By Evan Halper and Sarah D. Wire, Tribune Washington Bureau President Trump’s budget would deliver a painful financial blow to California, with the potential to push a state that has struggled for years to keep its books balanced back into the kind of red ink that consumed it after the housing market collapse a […]
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South Lake Tahoe has the highest gasoline prices in Northern California, according to AAA. The price on average is $3.23 a gallon, while the lowest is in Marysville at $2.71 per gallon. “Gas prices in California are the highest they’ve been in nearly five years,” John Moreno, spokesman for AAA Northern California, said in a […]
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