By George Skelton, Los Angeles Times You hear this every time there’s a drought or deluge in California: “Why haven’t they built more dams?” Truth is, they’ve built a bunch. And they’re about done with it. Tally them up. There are more than 1,400 dams in the state. At least 1,000 are major and […]
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Less than three weeks after the Placer County Planning Commission approved the Northstar Mountain Master Plan, the Board of Supervisors did the same. It was a 5-0 vote on Feb. 21. Components of the plan include: New terrain: Includes access to the Sawtooth Range. Approximately 293 acres of new groomable ski trails are proposed with over […]
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By Seth A. Richardson, Reno Gazette-Journal Activists packed a Nevada state Senate committee room on Monday during a three-hour hearing for the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that yielded a wildly divided perspectives. The Equal Rights Amendment, commonly known as the ERA, was birthed out of the feminist movement during the late-1960s and early 1970s. It […]
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By Reno Gazette-Journal The South Dayton Retention Pond above east Dayton is expected to fail, according to the National Weather Service’s social media pages. However, there is no actual dam failure, according to Lyon County. Read the whole story
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By Kathryn Reed Roads remain a mess in the greater Lake Tahoe area as another storm system pummels the already saturated mountains. The main closure is on Mount Rose Highway because a wall of snow, 20-feet deep fell there on Monday. No time has been given when it might reopen. It is closed at the […]
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Vail Resorts today announced it has acquired Stowe Mountain Resort in Vermont. Mt. Mansfield Company, a subsidiary of American International Group, sold the resort for $50 million. It had been under the same ownership since 1949. This is the first resort on the East Coast that the Broomfield-Colo.-based ski behemoth has purchased. Vail Resorts is […]
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By Alexei Koseff, Sacramento Bee Capping a yearlong assessment of pay equity among its ranks, the California Senate late last year gave 10 percent raises to 71 employees to shrink a lingering gap between what male and female employees earn. The raises, which total about $602,000 annually, followed the passage of a 2015 law expanding […]
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Holiday travelers and snow = congested, messy roads. Local roads and Sierra highways are full of people trying to leave Lake Tahoe and Truckee. Traffic is inching along on Monday afternoon. Highway 50 through the American River Canyon has been closed intermittently for avalanche control Highway 89 around Emerald Bay is closed. Alpine Meadows Road […]
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On a split vote last week, the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors said no to the 605-house Dixon Ranch subdivision. Only Supervisors Sue Novasel and Brian Veerkamp were in favor to the El Dorado Hills development. They would have liked the project to be revised, while the others were completely against the project. This […]
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By Christopher Muther, Boston Globe President Trump’s travel ban targeting nationals of seven Muslim-majority countries may not have held up in court, but it appears quite successful at keeping plenty of other people out of the United States. Trump’s order brought with it a swift decline in the number of worldwide tourists and travelers looking […]
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