By Jane Braxton Little, Sacramento Bee Low-flying helicopters are joining the legion of machinery responding to the state’s fourth-year drought. Helicopters flying at treetop level throughout rural Northern California are checking for dead and dying trees near power lines, where they pose fire hazards. The aircraft, contracted by Pacific Gas and Electric Co., have found […]
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By Anne Knowles INCLINE VILLAGE — Water data and sage grouse were the main topics on the opening day of the Western Governors’ Association annual meeting. The three-day conference kicked off June 24 with the release of the WGA’s drought forum report, what Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval, WGA’s current chairman, called a “living document.” The […]
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A Nevada Department of Transportation project on Highway 50 in south Carson City is designed to enhance storm drainage to help preserve water quality and reduce erosion. The project will replace more than 50 storm drains and drop inlets, as well as enhance roadside slopes and curb and gutter on 50 from the South Carson Street/Spooner junction […]
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The South Lake Tahoe Fire Department has implemented the Red Flag Program for a second year to help inform and educate people about days when the weather increases fire danger. SLTFD will raise a red flag at each fire station to warn the public. On these days the department will add extra personnel to staff a brush engine […]
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By Katharine Gammon, Inside Science In California’s current historic drought, there’s one particularly easy target when it comes to pointing fingers: green golf courses. Courses around the U.S. suck up around approximately 2.08 billion gallons of water per day for irrigation. That’s about 130,000 gallons per day per course, according to the golf industry. In […]
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By Jeremy B. White, Sacramento Bee A political fight over California’s renewable energy industry is playing out in the corridors of power, but it deals with something closer to home: your rooftop. Capitol policymakers are advancing an ambitious proposal to have renewable sources generate half of the state’s electricity by 2030, up from the 33 […]
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By Christopher Ingraham, Washington Post “The only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is with a good guy with a gun.”says Wayne LaPierre, the vice president of the National Rifle Association. That’s become the kernel of the NRA’s response to recent mass shooting tragedies — if only more people carried guns for […]
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By Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — A California judge has thrown out a proposed ballot initiative that advocated killing anyone who engages in gay sex, calling the measure “patently unconstitutional.” Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Raymond Cadei relieved California’s attorney general late Monday of the duty to clear the so-called Sodomite Suppression Act for signature-gathering. […]
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Updated June 24 10:03pm: “Fire is burning in hazardous and inaccessible terrain and approaching an increasing number of structures and impacting travel corridors,” authorities report. Updated June 24 6:19pm: The fire has grown to 17,205 acres and is 10 percent contained. There are now 900 people fighting the fire that was started by lightning. Warmer […]
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By Sarah Jarvis, Arizona Republic A Phoenix man was sentenced to 4 1/2 years in prison this month after prosecutors said he killed his roommate and left the burned body of the Lake Tahoe man in the desert in 2013. Vrouyr Manoukian, 24, was convicted of negligent homicide and abandonment of body in the death of […]
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