By John Flesher, AP TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — Some of the world’s biggest temperature jumps are happening in lakes — an ominous sign that suggests problems such as harmful algae blooms and low-oxygen zones hazardous to fish will get worse, says a scientific report. An analysis of 235 lakes that together hold more than […]
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Moving rocks in Lake Tahoe so they would not scrape kayaks and creating an 8-foot-wide path 4 feet into the water as well as a rock line path in the sand cost Martis Camp Club $5,000. The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency Governing Board approved the settlement agreement on Dec. 16. The Beach Shack is located […]
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By Associated Press Drug overdoses rose again last year, driven by surges in deaths from heroin and powerful prescription painkillers, according to new federal statistics. Overdose deaths in the U.S. surpassed 47,000 — up 7 percent from the previous year. Many of the deaths were due to a group of powerful opioid painkillers, which have […]
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By Kathryn Reed Lake Tahoe’s economy is not thriving. That was the message delivered this week by three members of the Tahoe Prosperity Center. “We need to make it a less difficult place to make a living,” Heidi Hill Drum, executive director of TPC, told a group of near two dozen people at Lake Tahoe […]
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Gene Palazzo, former director for the South Lake Tahoe Redevelopment Agency, is now city manager of Galt. Most recently he was city manager of Crescent City on the North Coast. He took that job in 2011. He starts his job in the Central Valley on March 1 with a salary of $156,750. He’s in line […]
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By National Weather Service After four dry winters, the mountain snowpack is off to a great start in the Eastern Sierra and Western Nevada. The peak of the snowpack is typically near April 1, and this is the date used to compare overall winter snowpack numbers. The winter of 2014-15 brought an abysmal snowpack to […]
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By James DeHaven, Howard Stutz and Jennifer Robison, Las Vegas Review-Journal The son-in-law of billionaire casino owner Sheldon Adelson arranged the $140 million purchase of the Las Vegas Review-Journal on Adelson’s behalf, sources confirmed Wednesday. Patrick Dumont, who is listed on the website of Las Vegas Sands Corp. as the company’s senior vice president of finance […]
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By Mark Glover, Sacramento Bee Assessed property values in the seven-county Sacramento region rose nearly 6 percent in the past year, according to statistics released this week by the California Board of Equalization. BOE said values in Sacramento, Placer, El Dorado, Yolo, Amador, Sutter and Yuba counties totaled a combined $272.8 billion for 2015-16, compared […]
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By Linda Fine Conaboy RENO – It’s the busiest mailing day of the year and surprisingly this humming and thrumming place was occupied by seemingly happy people, masters of their powerful conveyors, sorters, forklifts, trucks, and bins and bins of mail, all awaiting their attention. The Reno Main Post Office on Vassar Street is the […]
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By Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle Opponents of California’s death penalty began an initiative campaign Monday to repeal the state’s capital punishment law at the polls in November and said they’ve lined up some conservative support and $2 million in financial backing. The measure, if it qualifies, would be on the ballot four years after […]
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