By Richard N. Velotta, Las Vegas Review-Journal What’s the best way to lure prospective adventure-seekers to Nevada? Is it an image of a park ranger and the mantra “when other states restrict, we allow”? Or is it a campaign featuring a man with a beard, images of all-terrain vehicles and a message of “we go […]
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Updated 10:07pm: Power is off for thousands of people in the Lake Tahoe Basin and Carson Valley areas. “Road closures from flooding are hampering our crews’ efforts to get to the remaining outages in the Carson/Genoa/Gardnerville area,” NV Energy says on its website. In the Kingsbury Grade area of Stateline there are four outages affecting […]
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Unity at the Lake’s days are numbered at the South Lake Tahoe owned building on Rufus Allen Boulevard. The lease goes through Jan. 31, 2018. The city wants the building back to be able to use it on a temporary basis for recreation while the new permanent facility is built. When the church signed the […]
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By Sandra Chereb, Las Vegas Review-Journal CARSON CITY — State Sen. James Settelmeyer introduced a bill Tuesday seeking to open Nevada primaries to all candidates and voters, not just those registered as Republican or Democrat. Senate Bill 103 is a do-over of sorts of a bill the Minden Republican brought in 2015 to create open […]
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The land where private docks have been built at Donner Lake is the subject of a lawsuit. The nonprofit Save Our Shores Donner Lake is suing the California State Lands Commission. The issue is who owns the land where the docks are. The nonprofit is a group of Donner Lake lakefront property owners The state […]
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By Kathryn Reed The Upper Truckee River in South Lake Tahoe has reached flood stage, is expected to be higher than it was in January and could reach 1997 levels. “The Upper Truckee River changed course. It took the easiest way through the snow,” Jim Marino, South Lake Tahoe assistant public works director, told Lake […]
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By Paul Deanno, KPIX-TV It appears California has come out of the drought, with a fury. Atmospheric rivers, more commonly known as Pineapple Express storms, fueled by Hawaiian tropical waters, have pounded the Bay Area, and the state, with rain. But this is not new. Over 100 years ago California was in the same boat, […]
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By Tom Miller, KCRA-TV More than 60 homes in South Lake Tahoe and surrounding communities have flooded –- the result of relentless rain and melting snow. Snow berms that have built up along the side of the road are acting like dams, steering the water down the street — and in many cases, down driveways […]
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By Kathryn Reed In the same week that much of Northern California, including the Lake Tahoe Basin, is contending with flooding, the State Water Resources Control Board said water conservation is necessary. South Tahoe PUD had voiced its disgust with this regulation prior to the Feb. 8 decision via a letter to the water board. […]
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By Meghin Delaney, Las Vegas Review-Journal State Sen. Don Gustavson is using history as his guide as he again attempts to require Nevada students to learn cursive handwriting by the end of third grade. Gustavson, R-Sparks, has even included the Founding Fathers in his cursive cause, which began with the 2015 legislative session and continued […]
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