By Dale Kasler and Matt Weiser, Sacramento Bee Drought is reshaping Lake Tahoe and its all-important tourism industry. Seven ski resorts have shut down early for the season because of a shortage of snow. The latest is Sugar Bowl Resort, which will turn off its chairlifts at the close of business Sunday. The long-term impact […]
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By Associated Press NEW DELHI — The world could suffer a 40 percent shortfall in water in just 15 years unless countries dramatically change their use of the resource, a U.N. report warned Friday. Many underground water reserves are already running low, while rainfall patterns are predicted to become more erratic with climate change. As […]
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By J.D. Morris, Las Vegas Sun Amid all the discussion in Carson City about improving education, one piece of legislation is refloating an old, but likely ill-fated, idea to help fund Nevada’s bottom-tier school system: creating a state lottery. Assembly joint resolution No. 6 would authorize a lottery through an amendment of the Nevada Constitution, […]
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By Karen Castro, KLAS-TV LAS VEGAS — A study by American Express says women are the driving force of Nevada’s economy and the new face of entrepreneurship. The study also showed how the business owners were of different ethnicities. When it comes to women businesses owners, Nevada is among the top five states with the fastest […]
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By Kathryn Reed With Lake Tahoe – the land and water – being a continual scientific discovery, students at Zephyr Cove Elementary School are stepping outside to learn. Each grade level is being taught something unique about Tahoe as part of the science curriculum. It’s called “place based learning” – something Principal Nancy Cauley and […]
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By Scott Sonner, AP RENO — The Nevada Supreme Court ordered a four-year suspension of Harvey Whittemore’s law license Friday, more than doubling the punishment a state bar panel recommended after the ex-lobbyist and developer was convicted two years ago of making illegal campaign contributions to Sen. Harry Reid. The high court decided the 18-month […]
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By Jeff DeLong, Reno Gazette-Journal Fed up with waiting, Nevada lawmakers are ramping up efforts to have private companies, fire districts and others paid for work conducted years ago to reduce fire danger in vulnerable areas around Lake Tahoe. The Legislature earlier this month passed a joint resolution urging Congress to pay contractors who performed […]
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By Chris Dolce, Weather The winter of 2014-15 was the warmest on record worldwide, according to the state of the climate report released by the National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration on Wednesday. NOAA says that December through February – for meteorological record-keeping purposes, winter is defined as those three months in the Northern Hemisphere – was […]
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By Kathryn Reed A to-do list filled a large swath of one wall inside the South Lake Tahoe City Council chambers. These were the marching orders delivered to staff by council for the next 18 or so months. Upon completing a multi-day strategic planning session, the electeds a week ago today reconfirmed projects on the […]
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By Ray Hagar, Reno Gazette-Journal When Gov. Brian Sandoval made Caleb Cage his director of military and veterans policy in 2014, he became the first governor in recent memory to have a someone on staff to oversee veterans affairs. Cage, a West Point graduate and former Army platoon leader in Iraq, was given a formidable task. […]
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