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Firewood available in Nevada 27 Aug 2013 | 09:35 pm
The Nevada Division of State Parks has a amount number of firewood available for public purchase. Approximately 50 permits will go on sale Sept. 14. The sale starts at 8am on the 1st floor of the Rich...
Bad air quality lingers in basin, western Nevada 27 Aug 2013 | 07:45 pm
A dense smoke advisory is in effect for today until 5pm for the greater Lake Tahoe area and the Carson Valley. The National Weather Service in Reno is discouraging people in the basin, Alpine, Douglas...
El Dorado County, union close to agreement 27 Aug 2013 | 02:35 pm
By Kathryn Reed What was going to be a protest during today’s El Dorado County Board of Supervisors is now expected to be more of an employee rally. This is because labor negotiations suddenly took a ...
Book challenges innocent until proven guilty theory 27 Aug 2013 | 01:35 pm
By Kathryn Reed A knock on the door. It’s the police. Guns are drawn. You don’t know why. Your husband is hauled off to jail and then charged with a crime he didn’t commit. This is the basic formula f...
Opinion: Gen Xers coping with midlife crisis 27 Aug 2013 | 12:05 pm
By Sara Scribner, Salon In the 1993 movie “Falling Down,” Michael Douglas plays an angry white man whose midlife crisis has him nearly foaming at the mouth. Appalled by a brutal traffic jam and disori...
Beverages coming in specialized cans 27 Aug 2013 | 09:00 am
By Kristen Leigh Painter, Denver Post The standard 12-ounce beer can is being squeezed off store shelves as beverage makers try to one-up each other not only with what’s inside their cans but what the...
4.2 temblor hits near Reno 27 Aug 2013 | 07:05 am
People as far away as Folsom said they felt the 4.2 earthquake that hit Northern Nevada on Monday night. The U.S. Geological Survey said the temblor hit about two miles northeast of Spanish Springs at...
Agreement reached to repair Mono Lake damage 27 Aug 2013 | 06:45 am
By Louis Sahagun, Los Angeles Times Ending decades of bitter disputes over fragile Mono Lake, Los Angeles and conservationists on Friday announced an agreement to heal the environmental damage caused ...
Frog protection has trout backers up in arms 27 Aug 2013 | 05:00 am
By Louis Sahagun, Los Angeles Times A federal proposal to make the Sierra Nevada as comfortable as possible for some of their rarest amphibian inhabitants has stirred a backlash from business owners o...
Learn about the Truckee River Watershed Council 27 Aug 2013 | 03:15 am
The Truckee River Winery is hosting a River Talk for people to learn more about the work the Truckee River Watershed Council does. The River Talk is a one hour virtual tour of a few of council’s proje...
