By Trevon Milliard, Reno Gazette-Journal Last school year was anything but normal for Washoe County students. From elementary to high school, every state-required standardized test was replaced with a new one designed to demand more of students, including the exit exams required to graduate in Nevada. High school students were also forced, for the first time, […]
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By Melanie Mason, Los Angeles Times Cities and counties will no longer be able to impose fines on residents for unsightly brown lawns while the state is in a drought, under a bill signed by Gov. Jerry Brown. The measure, by Assemblywoman Cheryl Brown, D-Rialto, prohibits local governments from issuing fines for violations of “lawn […]
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By Kathryn Reed A police officer with 10 years of experience who joined the South Lake Tahoe department in January is responsible for the killing of an unarmed suspect in June. Officer Josh Klinge, 35, remains on paid administrative leave. Officers were called to the Tahoe Hacienda Motel on Lake Tahoe Boulevard at 2:40am June […]
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By Sophie Mattson, San Jose Mercury News Laura Jaramillo woke up one morning in the summer of 2005 and sensed something was horribly wrong. After going to the hospital, she fell into a coma and spent six weeks fighting for her life — waking up to find her right side paralyzed. Doctors were baffled until […]
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By John Wildermuth, San Francisco Chronicle With more and more California voters casting ballots by mail, the neighborhood polling place is becoming one of the loneliest spots in town on election day, forcing local and state officials to puzzle out what to do about it. In the June 2014 statewide primary, 69 percent of the […]
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By Abby Phillip, Washington Post A bizarre kidnapping case that police once called a hoax took yet another surprising turn Monday. The FBI issued a warrant for the arrest of a 38-year-old Harvard Law School graduate in connection with the case and a separate alleged home invasion that occurred last month. In court documents unsealed […]
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By Jeff DeLong, Reno Gazette-Journal Authorities are investigating the shooting death of a bear at Lake Tahoe last week and say they already know who did it. The unidentified South Lake Tahoe resident said he shot the black bear Thursday night in self-defense, said Capt. Patrick Foy of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. […]
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By Suzanne Goldenberg, Guardian ExxonMobil, the world’s biggest oil company, knew as early as 1981 of climate change – seven years before it became a public issue, according to a newly discovered email from one of the firm’s own scientists. Despite this the firm spent millions over the next 27 years to promote climate denial. […]
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By Mathis Wackernagel, Sacramento Bee The drought in California has made the economic risks of living beyond the means of nature all too clear. Just last month, estimates pegged the state’s economic losses from the drought at $2.7 billion, an enormous number that still fails to capture the toll on individual farmers and farmworkers. Water, […]
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A man was seriously injured in the Rubicon Spring area of the Rubicon Jeep Trail. Because of low clouds, thunderstorms, lightning, wind, and heavy downpours in the area, no helicopter could respond on the morning of July 8. .The patient was stabilized as best as possible and the decision was made to drive him out by an […]
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