By Brad Branan, Sacramento Bee Granite Bay has some of the region’s most expensive real estate, with big homes on large rural lots that have attracted well-heeled buyers who prize the area for its pastoral quality near Folsom Lake. Though the area has seen its share of development in recent years, turning into an affluent […]
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By Ken Ritter, AP If there’s ever a radiological catastrophe in the U.S. like the 2011 Fukushima disaster in Japan, the stewards of the former national nuclear weapons proving ground in Nevada expect to be ready to deploy remote-controlled drones to check for contamination. Nevada National Security Site officials have purchased two unmanned aerial vehicles […]
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By Jason Hidalgo, Reno Gazette-Journal On May 20, 2015, an exasperated Nevada Legislature washed its hands of the net metering debate, punting its resolution to the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada. Exactly one year later, the issue surrounding rates for rooftop solar is poised to come full circle as a state task force mulls sending […]
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By NPR In recent years, there’s been a no-tipping movement within the restaurant industry. The idea has been to rectify a basic pay unfairness to even out the pay between tipped and untipped employees. Dishwashers and cooks at the back of the house don’t earn as much money as waiters because they don’t get tips. […]
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Placer County said the reason it created an economic incentive program is to deal with the extraordinarily high costs of development, redevelopment and environmental improvements in the Lake Tahoe Basin. Another reason the Board of Supervisors approved the plan this month is to spark investment in private projects. In particular the elected would like more […]
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By Matthew Artz, Bay Area News Group Californians are registering to vote in breathtaking numbers not seen since the Reagan Revolution, as the no-holds-barred presidential primary season and tech-based outreach efforts have rousted more than 1 million people from their political slumber. More than twice as many Californians registered this year than in the same […]
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By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Money Starting later this year, millions more workers will become eligible for overtime pay. Under a new rule announced by the White House Tuesday, anybody making a salary of less than $47,476 ($913 a week) will automatically qualify for overtime pay when they work more than 40 hours a week. That’s […]
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By Paul Rogers, Mercury News The natural landscape of the American West is gradually disappearing under a relentless march of new subdivisions, roads, oil and gas production, agricultural operations and other human development, according to a detailed mapping study released Tuesday. From 2001 to 2011, an area totaling 4,321 square miles — or 15 times […]
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A building at the end of Kahle Drive burned for the better part of this week before firefighters fully extinguished it. This was because Tahoe Douglas firefighters were training. They had access to the Kingsbury Grade Improvement District building that is no longer in use near the old trailer park in Stateline. “We have […]
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By Kelley McMillan, National Geographic On a sunny morning in late February, Tom Slocum, a 57-year-old ski bum in Telluride, Colo., walked up Tomboy Road, a popular hiking route that winds above the north side of town. An avid athlete and skier, Slocum moved to Telluride in 1984, a couple of years after graduating college. Like […]
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