By Kathryn Reed Walking in they didn’t say much. They were timid, shy and apprehensive. They didn’t want to say the wrong thing. When English isn’t your first language it’s easy to feel intimidated about speaking to others who have spoken it their entire lives. But not communicating can be detrimental in the work environment […]
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By Meghann M. Cuniff, Orange County Register An appellate court on Monday declared San Juan Capistrano’s water rate system illegal, questioning the validity of the longstanding tiered rate model that’s used by agencies across drought-stricken California to encourage water conservation. But the 29-page ruling, which has been anxiously awaited by municpalities and water districts throughout […]
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By Stephen Magagini, Sacramento Bee Responding to a barrage of protest from neighbors and local residents, the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians, owners of Red Hawk Casino, have scaled back plans to put in a public 29-lane outdoor gun range south of Highway 50 and instead develop a small gun range “open only to […]
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By Scott Sonner, AP United in their belief wild horses should remain free to roam public rangeland across the West, groups working to protect the mustangs are increasingly at odds over whether contraception should play a role in the decades-old dispute over efforts to reign in the natural size of the herds. The American Wild […]
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By Associated Press With the start of summer two months away, the Truckee River’s level already is dropping around Reno after flows into it from a Sierra Nevada reservoir were halted last week. Federal Water Master Chad Blanchard said he needed to begin closing Boca Reservoir’s floodgates on Thursday because of its low water levels […]
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Updated April 21 2:43pm: A one-time worker for the El Dorado County’s Republican Party who has worked on numerous political campaigns has been arrested on felony willful infliction of corporal injury of a cohabitant charges. Rodney Stanhope, 47, is married, but the alleged victim was not his wife. The Placerville resident was arrested earlier this month. […]
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By Jenna Iacurci, Nature World News It turns out that California wildfires release more greenhouse gases than previously thought, according to new research. According to the study, from 2001-10, annual carbon losses from forests and wildlands in California represented as much as 5-7 percent of state carbon emissions. Interestingly, the state’s Global Warming Solutions Act, […]
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By Associated Press A 13-year-old boy was hit and killed by a train Sunday evening while walking along tracks near Truckee, about 20 miles west of the California-Nevada line. KXTV in Sacramento reports California and Nevada officials found the boy’s body after responding to reports of a pedestrian incident near Interstate 80. Anthony William Schafer […]
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By Erik Sherman, Fortune There will be businesses, new and old, that find water shortages can produce profits. As droughts become more common throughout the world, these 9 industries may thrive. It’s crunch time for water, with shortages presenting one of the top global risks over the next decade, according to the World Economic Forum. […]
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By Adam Nagourney, New York Times LOS ANGELES — In case there was ever any doubt, forcing a 25 percent cut in urban water use by Californians in the fourth year of a searing drought is not going to be easy. That became clear Saturday morning when, after a 12-hour delay, state regulators took their […]
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