By Kathryn Reed Before summer is over, a preferred alternative for the Lake Tahoe Airport Master Plan should be selected. The South Lake Tahoe City Council is expected to discuss the matter July 21 or Aug. 4. It was in 1992 that a settlement agreement regarding the master plan was reached. This involved the city, […]
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By Associated Press WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court won’t hear an appeal from Nevada over a lawsuit that claims the state wrongfully bused indigent psychiatric patients to San Francisco without paying the costs of their medical care. The justices on Tuesday let stand a lower court decision that said California state courts have authority to […]
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By J.D. Morris, Las Vegas Sun Nevada’s effort to make casino floors feel more like arcades advanced last week as gaming regulators started crafting the rules that will govern the introduction of skill into the state’s slot machines. The Gaming Control Board had its first workshop to receive input on regulations that will implement Senate Bill […]
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By Sammy Caiola, Sacramento Bee A longtime asthma sufferer, Shirley Bittante tries to stay inside when the air district rates conditions outside her Fair Oaks house as “unhealthy.” She may have to spend more time indoors this summer as heat and drought degrade air quality across the state. Bittante, 60, said she’s noticed more […]
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Updated 8:55pm: All state highways through the Washington Fire area are open to through traffic. This includes Highway 4 over Ebbetts Pass and Highway 89 east over Monitor Pass to Highway 395. The fire near Markleeville is 66 percent contained, with 17,790 acres burned. —– While the Washington Fire continues to burn near the town of […]
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By Kevin Freking, AP WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is making it easier for some Indian tribes to obtain federal recognition, addressing a longstanding grievance of many Native Americans. The new regulation updates a 37-year-old process that has been roundly criticized as broken because of the many years and mounds of paperwork that typically went […]
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The 17,787-acre Washington Fire is 56 percent contained. “The structural fire engines assigned to Markleeville are being phased out and will be continue to be released to their home units,” according to officials. The fire started June 19 from a lightning strike that had occurred about 10 days prior to winds turning it into the […]
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By Reno Gazette-Journal Federal Bureau of Land Management officials defended on Sunday their request for special housing accommodations during the annual Burning Man festival in Nevada, disputing comments by Sen. Harry Reid and others that the plans are unnecessary and extravagant. A Reno Gazette-Journal investigation broke the details of the request last week. Burning Man […]
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By Kathryn Reed A segment of South Lake Tahoe’s past is about to visually disappear from the landscape. A hearings officer with the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency today approved the demolition of all of the buildings at the old Barton Ranch at the Y. Slated for the wrecking ball are the barn, ranch house, guesthouses, cabin, […]
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By Tony Dokoupil, MSNBC MOUNT SHASTA — Throughout parched California, a punishing drought has forced communities to cut back on their water use. Just outside the town of Mount Shasta, however, a private bottling company is about to do the opposite, opening a tap on millions of gallons of the state’s dwindling public resource. The […]
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