By Lake Tahoe News It doesn’t matter that the water content of the snow near Echo Summit is 130 percent of average; officials aren’t about to say the drought is anywhere near over. “While the recent rains and growing snowpack are wonderful to behold, we won’t know until spring what effect it will have on […]
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BY Olga R. Rodriguez, AP Environmental groups and federal and state agencies have formed a partnership to increase the use of prescribed fires to improve the health of California’s forests and watersheds and minimize the effects of increasingly devastating wildfires. The agreement signed by the CalFire, U.S. Forest Service and other federal and state agencies […]
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By Wesley Juhl, Las Vegas Review-Journal Nearly one in 11 people shopping for guns online in Nevada is prohibited from possessing a firearm, according to a study by Everytown for Gun Safety released Friday. Everytown for Gun Safety, a national gun control advocacy group, researched listings for firearms on four websites: Armslist, Gunlistings, Backpage and Facebook, […]
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By Cy Ryan, Las Vegas Sun CARSON CITY — Attorney General Adam Laxalt says the board of the Incline Village General Improvement District violated the open meeting law and failed to correct it. Laxalt said the move to reorganize the board at North Lake Tahoe in August is void because of the violations. Read the […]
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By Associated Press PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. — The handlers of Pennsylvania’s most famous groundhog, Punxsutawney Phil, said the furry rodent failed to see his shadow at dawn Tuesday, meaning he “predicted” an early spring. “Is this current warm weather more than a trend? Per chance this winter has come to an end? There is no shadow […]
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By Melody Gutierrez, San Francisco Chronicle SACRAMENTO — Transgender people may find a bit of relief in a bill being proposed by a California lawmaker Friday that would make all public single-stall restrooms gender neutral. Assemblyman Phil Ting, D-San Francisco, said AB1732 would require all single-occupancy restrooms in private businesses and government buildings to be […]
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By Kathryn Reed Ten million dollars. That’s what it could cost to move South Tahoe Public Utility District’s water and sewer lines if the loop road goes through. “It could have devastating impacts for our utility,” Shannon Cotulla, STPUD assistant general manager, said of the relocations process. Cotulla and General Manager Richard Solbrig explained at […]
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By Sean Whaley, Las Vegas Review-Journal CARSON CITY — Nevada government and business leaders may have to shift at least part of their established economic development focus from renewable energy to other opportunities if new net metering rules drive the rooftop-solar business out of Nevada as predicted by industry officials. Rooftop solar was only very recently […]
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By Daniel Goldstein, MarketWatch If homeownership is the first cornerstone of the American Dream, then a quiet cabin by the lake (if not a beach house with a view of a breathtaking sunset) in the mountains as far away from a Wi-Fi hot spot as possible probably runs a close second. Indeed, overly-wired and Internet-saturated […]
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By Kathryn Reed The much-maligned property in Tahoe Vista where Spindleshanks used to be might still be turned into 39 time-share units. Tim Wilkens, who owns the 6-acre parcel, has been given an extension by the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency until May 1 to start the construction process. “The determination was based on information that […]
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