By Bettina Boxall, Los Angeles Times Gary Serrato watched as a tractor worked its way across a field of dried-up weeds, slicing the sandy dirt into orderly furrows. The field was being readied not for a crop but for what he hopes will be a bountiful harvest of floodwater this El Niño winter. “We’re going […]
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By David Perlman, San Francisco Chronicle Fishers, those rare little forest animals barely larger than a big house cat, are dying from rat poisons left behind by illegal marijuana growers in California who abandon their plantations when the law closes in. Ecologist Mourad Gabriel should know: He lives in Blue Lake, a Humboldt County town […]
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By Associated Press STOCKHOLM — Climate change could push more than 100 million people into extreme poverty by 2030 by disrupting agriculture and fueling the spread of malaria and other diseases, the World Bank said in a report Sunday. Released just weeks ahead of a U.N. climate summit in Paris, the report highlighted how the […]
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By Kathryn Reed It looks like South Lake Tahoe may soon be the landowner where the senior center, museum, art building and visitors center sit in the middle of town. “It’s a good idea to transfer it to the city and get out of the middle,” El Dorado County Supervisor Sue Novasel told Lake Tahoe […]
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By Yesenia Amaro, Las Vegas Review-Journal Marsha Rodriguez waited six months to get into a Nevada Medicaid waiver program providing home services so the disabled woman wouldn’t have to move into a nursing home. Seven years later, the 72-year-old is still receiving those services along with 4,558 other people from three different vulnerable populations — the […]
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By Jennifer Modenessi, Bay Area News Group ORINDA — When Miramonte High School social studies teacher Elizabeth Aracic teaches Civil War history, she makes a point of giving her students a wide-angle look at the country’s deadliest war. Answering legislation that seeks to make history more inclusive, Aracic explains to high school juniors that it […]
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By John Myers, Los Angeles Times Call it a dream for California political consultants, a nightmare for voters or an electoral extravaganza: The November 2016 ballot could feature a bigger crop of statewide propositions than at any time in the past decade. “The voters pamphlet is going to look like the Encyclopaedia Brittanica,” said Steve […]
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Ownership of two short roads near Northstar is changing. The Placer County Board of Supervisors last week approved the abandonment of Mill Site Road and Cross Cut Court so they will become privately owned. Mill Site Road runs through the Retreat at Northstar, an 18-lot development. Adjacent to the Retreat is Martis Camp, a 668-lot […]
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By ABC-10 A fight led to a man’s death and another man’s arrest in El Dorado County early Friday morning. The El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office said that deputies were sent to investigate a report of an assault near a residence in the 2800 block of Elmer Street in Camino about 1:05am. When they arrived, […]
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By Rory Carroll, Guardian The doors clang shut, casting the laboratory into gloom, and the scientists don goggles, yellow helmets and flame-resistant jackets. Two crouch behind computers, readying measurements. Another picks up a blowtorch. The rest stand back. Wood shavings and dry chaparral, which resembles hay, line the bed of a 30ft wind tunnel. Green […]
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