By Kathryn Reed The South Lake Tahoe City Council next week is expected to adopt a fee schedule for services that better reflects the cost of doing business. Last week the council heard a presentation about what is being proposed and directed staff to make some changes. Looking at the campground fees, how nonprofits are […]
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By David Siders and Jim Miller, Sacramento Bee High above a landscape parched by unremitting drought, Meadow Valley Creek courses through the northern Sierra Nevada and pools in a stand of alders behind a tiny, concrete dam. Robert Forbes draws water from the reservoir through an overturned smokestack and into a ditch that has run […]
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By Todd Spangler, Detroit Free Press WASHINGTON – One is a legend on the civil rights circuit, a veteran of battles for gay and lesbian rights and a MacArthur Foundation genius grant winner — who has never argued in the U.S. Supreme Court before but, nonetheless, may have recent history on her side. The other […]
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By James Joiner, Daily Beast High in the Himalayas, Everest climbers can only hope for the best after Saturday’s devastating earthquake. As the numbers of injured and killed — currently 5,900 and 3,218, respectively—rise in the wake of yesterday’s earthquake in Nepal and aftershocks continue to rock the countryside, the first groups of evacuees from […]
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By Jason Blevins, Denver Post The California drought and a warm spring in Utah pinched visits to Vail Resorts’ ski areas, but season pass sales and targeted marketing to wealthy skiers pushed the resort operator’s revenues ahead of the previous season. North America’s largest resort operator on Friday released results from its nine ski areas for […]
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By Jeff DeLong, Reno Gazette-Journal As a late-season snowstorm swept toward the Sierra Friday, scientists prepared to do their thing. In this case, that meant activating mountaintop generators that spray chemicals into storm clouds, encouraging formation of ice crystals that fall as precious snow. “It looks pretty good. We are pretty confident we will get […]
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By Kathryn Reed Dismal snow years are good and bad for South Lake Tahoe’s Public Works Department. The good means the aging fleet doesn’t have to be used much. The bad is that the state reimburses the city in part for its snow removal expenses, which means fewer dollars will be in the coffer for […]
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By Richard Goode My grandfather used to tell the story of traveling from Bakersfield to San Francisco by boat as a boy in about 1910. First up the Tulare Lake, then up the San Joaquin River and through the Delta. In those days, water in California’s San Joaquin Valley must have seemed inexhaustible. Then, the […]
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South Shore-based radio stations KRLT and KOWL are about to change ownership. General Manager Steve Harness is buying 93.9-FM and 1490-AM from Cherry Creek Radio. The deal should be completed July 21. The FCC must still approve the transfer. The on air talent and programming are expected to remain the same. Harness has been with […]
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By Felicity Barringer, New York Times In Modesto, utility records chart an 18 percent rise in farmers’ energy use in 2014 compared with 2013. No evidence shows exactly why this happened, but California’s drought, now in its fourth year, sent many farmers to their wells to pump from hidden aquifers water that normally would be […]
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