By Jennifer Oldham, BloombergBusiness Pot’s not green. The $3.5 billion U.S. cannabis market is emerging as one of the nation’s most power-hungry industries, with the 24-hour demands of thousands of indoor growing sites taxing aging electricity grids and unraveling hard-earned gains in energy conservation. Without design standards or efficient equipment, the facilities in the 23 states […]
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The Woodwind II will no longer ply the waters of Lake Tahoe. The severe windstorm on Dec. 11 dislodged the catamaran from its mooring at Zephyr Cove. For days it rested upon the rocks near the South Shore marina. Now it is in the parking lot at Cave Rock boat launch. Tahoe Cruises, which operates […]
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A vehicle swerving through Meyers on Wednesday afternoon took some time to pull over. “The driver was so intoxicated he didn’t know he had to pull over,” CHP Officer Jeff Gartner told Lake Tahoe News. The suspect’s blood alcohol content level was not released. Jay Welch, who is in his late 50s and lives in Minden, […]
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By Paul Rogers, San Jose Mercury News After two months in a row of declining conservation, Californians are doing better at saving water, but they remain far short of a goal set by Gov. Jerry Brown last January. Statewide, residents cut water use by 9.8 percent in November, compared with November 2013, according to new […]
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By Associated Press GRANTS PASS, Ore. — The U.S. Forest Service has abruptly decided not to spend $10 million on a five-year nationwide public relations campaign to brand itself as a public agency that cares about people and nature. The agency was planning on the campaign at a time when it’s struggling to pay for […]
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By Gamaliel Ortiz, KCRA-TV EL DORADO HILLS — A woman was fatally shot by a 41-year-old suspect as she and another woman were leaving a bar in El Dorado Hills about midnight, authorities said. The two women were approached by the suspect — identified by the California Highway Patrol as Anderson Swift of Oakland — […]
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By Chris Megerian, Los Angeles Times In an inaugural address drawing on his family’s deep roots in California, Gov. Jerry Brown called for expansive new environmental regulations that would protect the state for future generations. The governor also pledged not to stray from promises he has made to strengthen California’s finances, invest in the $68-billion […]
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Preliminary data shows that 284 traffic fatalities occurred on Nevada roads in 2014, an increase of 18 deaths compared to the previous year. Statewide, traffic fatalities have slightly risen over recent years after trending down from an all-time high of 432 in 2006. Traffic fatalities in many rural counties have increased, with a more than […]
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Updated Jan. 8 7:30am: Names of the people involved in the New Year’s Day fatal accident on Mt. Rose Highway have been released. Hugo Soto-Barrios, 40, died in the accident. He was a passenger in the vehicle riven by Manuel Mejia-Verduzco, 34. Nevada Highway Patrol troopers found Mejia-Verduzco in his apartment, after he had fled […]
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By Sonja Elmquist, Bloomberg Yale University researchers are on your mom’s side when it comes to fighting a cold: put on a sweater. The immune system doesn’t combat cold viruses as well at lower temperatures, according to an early study in mice published today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Doctors have […]
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