The U.S. Forest Service is warning South Shore residents that a bobcat had been seen multiple times in the Saw Mill Pond, Dundee Circle, North Upper Truckee, Washoe Meadows State Park, Echo Lake areas. The agency has yet to verify the credibility of a March 1 report of a mountain lion with a cub in […]
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By Jenny Kane, Reno Gazette-Journal While Burning Man and Pershing County officials settled a lawsuit over First Amendment rights and money three years ago, the matter finally and officially has been settled in a federal appellate court. In the decision released by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday, Chief Judge Sidney Thomas struck […]
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By Ian Whitaker, Las Vegas Sun Late last year higher education officials controversially voted to merge campus police at two Reno colleges with the UNR police department. Then, last month, administrators proposed centralizing the Nevada System of Higher Education’s registration system. At that same meeting, the Board of Regents reaffirmed their vision for a strong, […]
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By Richard N. Velotta, Las Vegas Review-Journal BEATTY – Gov. Brian Sandoval rolled up to a new electric car charging station here in an electric Ford Focus emblazoned with a Nevada Department of Transportation logo and plugged into a charging port like he had done it a thousand times. “See,” he said to an approving […]
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By Erica Goode, New York Times Invasive species are bad news, or so goes the conventional wisdom, encouraged by persistent warnings from biologists about the dangers of foreign animals and plants moving into new territories. Conservation organizations bill alien species as the foremost threat to native wildlife. Cities rip out exotic trees and shrubs in […]
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By Kathryn Reed Harrison Avenue in South Lake Tahoe is about to be transformed again. This time it will be the building that houses South Tahoe Stand Up Paddle and Rude Brothers Bagels. Locals John Cefalu and Mike McKeen closed escrow on the property last month and are in the process of renovating the building. […]
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The fully clothed body of David Mark Flynn was recovered near Timber Cove Pier on Feb. 29. The cause of death is undetermined pending toxicology reports, according to the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Department. Flynn, 53, was a resident of South Lake Tahoe. The police department told Lake Tahoe News there were no outward signs […]
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By Chris Kudialis, Las Vegas Sun Reclining leather seats, a 42-inch television screen and stencils of bright red marijuana leaves illuminate the back of 420 Tours’ sport utility vehicle. The SUV, along with a 30-foot bus, are used by Nevada’s first cannabis tour company, which takes people looking for a medical marijuana card and legal […]
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By Kathryn Reed While the discussion was about a parade policy, the spectacle was more like a middle school play yard filled with prepubescent teens squabbling over something so inane that no rational adult would understand the significance of the banter. And, yet, the people doing the bickering were the five elected members of the […]
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By Rebecca Klein, Huffington Post The seeds of the achievement gap in science are planted before a child has ever set foot in an elementary school, according to a new study. The new report out this month looks to explain why white, upper-class eighth-graders tend to perform much better in science than their low-income and […]
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