By Bethany Barnes and Francis McCabe, Las Vegas Review-Journal The Board of Regents last week created local advisory councils for the community colleges in the state, a move some education watchdogs fear is just window dressing to appease advocates who want local communities to have more say in the colleges. The unanimously supported establishment of […]
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By Kathryn Reed A South Lake Tahoe hotel fire Monday night displaced 10 people. The 10:10pm blaze at Tahoe Pines Lodge started in a utility closet that contained a hot water heater and belongings from former guests, according to Fire Chief Jeff Meston. “The fire investigators are going through that,” Meston said. An exact cause […]
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By Kathryn Reed Owners of Tahoe Tom’s on Dec. 8 were issued a letter by the Lahontan Regional Water Quality Board allowing the South Lake Tahoe gas station to shut down the onsite remediation system during the winter. Tahoe Tom’s has long been a source of contaminating the groundwater and affecting wells. Even though MTBE […]
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By Ed Joyce, California Public Radio Along the western slopes of the Sierra Nevada, runoff pollution from abandoned mines in “Gold Country” could threaten California’s primary water supply. A pilot project at one mine site is intended to prevent contaminated runoff from reaching the Yuba River. The Sierra Nevada Conservancy said more than 60 percent […]
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By Phillip Reese, Sacramento Bee Fewer uninsured Californians are seeking treatment in the state’s emergency rooms, a decline that experts say is a direct result of the federal Affordable Care Act. The trend represents welcome news for previously uninsured patients who had trouble affording a trip to the emergency room. But it has not brought down […]
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By Associated Press BROOMFIELD, Colo. — Vail Resorts Inc. today reported a fiscal first-quarter loss of $64.3 million. On a per-share basis, the Broomfield, Colo.-based company said it had a loss of $1.77. Losses, adjusted for non-recurring gains, came to $2.05 per share. The results met Wall Street expectations. The average estimate of analysts surveyed by […]
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By Adam Beam, AP FRANKFORT, KY — Public school students in 13 districts across Kentucky will be home schooled — mainly via the Internet — during some snow days this year as part of an experiment aimed at keeping students learning amid the growing number of weather-related closings. The state’s solution has caused a new set […]
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By Susan Wood INCLINE VILLAGE – If a tree grows submerged in a lake, will anyone notice? That’s the prevailing question posed during a lecture at Sierra Nevada College last week by Benjamin Hatchett, who studies climate models for the Nevada State Climate Office of UNR. The talk, which brought out almost 100 people who […]
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By Associated Press RENO — Nevada scientists working to expand early earthquake warning systems around Lake Tahoe are developing new plans to eventually ring the mountain lake’s basin with a network of cameras to help alert authorities to potentially disastrous wildfires. Researchers are seeking private funding to substantially expand the system after a pilot program […]
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By Randall Chase, AP GEORGETOWN, Del. — A Delaware judge is weighing whether to grant a motion by Caesars Entertainment Corp. to dismiss a lawsuit by bondholders accusing the company of fraudulently transferring assets of its debt-laden operating unit in order to shield them from creditors. Lawyers for Caesar’s argued Friday that the second-lien bondholders […]
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