By Steven Greenhut, San Diego Union Tribune SACRAMENTO — The Attorney General’s Office has been so inundated with marijuana legalization measures that it’s been hard to separate the wheat from the chaff – or the stems from the buds, to use a more appropriate analogy. It costs less than the average price of an ounce […]
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By Kathryn Reed A court decision this month most likely will delay for a year the ground breaking of Homewood Mountain Resort’s slopeside hotel. Owners were slated to begin construction in summer 2016 on the hotel that is almost a replica of the old Tahoe Tavern. San Francisco-based JMA Ventures owns the West Shore ski […]
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By Leath Tonino, Outside Soundscape ecologist Bernie Krause has recorded jaguars in the Amazon, ice in Antarctica, insects in Zimbabwe, rainstorms in Borneo, and orcas in the Pacific. The 77-year-old began studying nature’s sounds at age 30, later earning a Ph.D. in creative arts. (This was after two successful decades as a musician and producer.) […]
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Erik Detweiler, 25, of South Lake Tahoe formerly of Quakertown, Pa., died Dec. 27 of injuries he received in an auto accident. Born in Abington, Pa., he was the son of Royden Detweiler of Quakertown and Mary Ellen (Kasmer) of Red Hill, Pa.. He was a 2008 graduate of Quakertown High School and received his […]
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By Bettina Boxall, Los Angeles Times This tranquil ranching valley lies 15 miles west of the Sacramento River. A one-lane bridge spans a dried-up creek at the valley entrance. But when Jeff Sutton stands there, he imagines water, lots of it. Never mind that talk of flooding the Antelope Valley north of Sacramento and turning […]
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Expect Highway 50 in the casino corridor at Stateline to close at some point on New Year’s Eve. Sheriff’s deputies shutdown the road as people fill the street. Traffic will then be diverted to upper and lower Lake Parkway Drive. Deputies of the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office will be present in the Stateline casino-core area […]
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By Michelle Rindels, AP CARSON CITY – A panel of water experts that spent almost a year analyzing Nevada’s persistent drought has issued recommendations that could shape Gov. Brian Sandoval’s policy agenda in the coming year. The eight-member Nevada Drought Forum, which Sandoval commissioned in April, included water, agriculture, climate and emergency management officials who […]
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By David Sharp, AP PORTLAND, Maine — A real estate investment trust that’s selling more than a dozen ski resorts from Maine to California won’t meet its deadline of completing the transaction by year’s end. CNL Lifestyle Properties, which is based in Orlando, Fla., has sold its senior housing portfolio, a dozen marinas, four attractions, […]
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By Josh Dulaney, Long Beach Press Telegram Community college students are earning specialized transfer degrees at a blistering pace. The number of associate degrees for transfer nearly doubled in 2014-15 from the previous year, with 20,644 students earning the honor, according to figures released earlier this month by the Chancellor’s Office of California Community Colleges. […]
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By Kathryn Reed When Caltrans returns in 2017 to do the Y to Trout Creek project South Lake Tahoe officials do not want a repeat of what happened this summer. “This project this summer caused so much disruption,” City Manager Nancy Kerry told Clark Peri. Peri is the project manager for the Caltrans district that […]
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