By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – Providing more recreation access is the overriding reason to improve and extend the pier at Kings Beach, according to the landowners. While State Parks and California Tahoe Conservancy are about to embark on the environmental process for this project, tied into it is creating an updated general plan for the […]
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California in March was the most expensive place to buy gasoline, with Nevada coming in third. The national average was $2.06 per gallon. This was an increase of 33 cents from February, according to AAA. In California the average price was $2.77 per gallon, while in Nevada it was $2.44. Hawaii was the second highest at […]
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By Tori Richards, U.S. News & World Report LOS ANGELES — People have long predicted that California could eventually collapse into the ocean following a mega earthquake. Now, an eerily similar true-life scenario is playing out — but it’s thanks to the weather. The Gold Rush State has sunk more than 45 feet since 1935 […]
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By Scott Sonner, AP Rural Nevadans suing to block the Obama administration’s sage-grouse protections say a trail of internal government documents shows politics was the driving force behind a pre-determined policy that flies in the face of its experts’ own best science. Their latest motion filed in federal court in Reno seeks to void the […]
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By Nathan Halverson, Reveal Secret conversations between American diplomats show how a growing water crisis in the Middle East destabilized the region, helping spark civil wars in Syria and Yemen, and how those water shortages are spreading to the United States. Classified U.S. cables reviewed by Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting show a […]
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By Lake Tahoe News With the threat of a lawsuit from El Dorado County, the Cal-Tahoe Joint Powers Authority board this week voted to hire an attorney. The JPA is responsible for providing ambulance service to the California side of the South Shore. South Lake Tahoe and Lake Valley fire departments are the agencies of […]
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Whether the environmental impact statement for the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency’s Regional Plan update failed to analyze how the document negatively impacts soil conservation, water quality and air quality is at the heart of legal case that is in the hands of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Both sides of the lawsuit gave oral […]
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By Kathryn Reed An El Dorado County Superior Court judge inadvertently limited South Lake Tahoe Councilwoman JoAnn Conner’s interaction with city staff. Judge Steve Bailey on April 12 said email is the only way Conner, when acting as a citizen and not an elected official, may contact any employee at the city. Prior to then […]
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Highway 50 is expected to be open by 8pm Tuesday after large boulders fell from the mountainside. Julie Threewit of Meyers described it as “significant.” Her 4Runner was barely able to make it past the rock debris. She said two rocks were the size of a small car. The slide occurred about 6pm April 12 just beyond […]
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By Eric Holthaus, Slate With a monstrous and record-setting El Niño on the wane, the implications of its disastrous worldwide consequences are starting to settle in. But there’s new evidence that, on its heels, a potentially strong La Niña could emerge later this year—bringing with it a renewed stretch of extreme weather. Last week, the […]
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