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Updated: Residential Fire and Explosion at Marine Warfare Training Center in Mono County

2/4/2012 10:27 AM

On Friday February 3, 2012 at approximately 8:53 p.m. the Mono County Sheriff's Dispatch received numerous 911 calls regarding an explosion and a residential structure that was on fire at the Marine Warfare Training Center (MWTC) Base Housing...Read More

Man found in American River identified

2/3/2012 2:02 PM

The Placer County Sheriff's Coroner's Office has identified the man found in the American River Tuesday morning as Peter Matthew Wynters, 30, from Newport Oregon...Read More

Local Water Suppliers collaborate with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory on Martis Valley Groundwater Model and Management Plan Effort

2/3/2012 12:36 PM

The Truckee Donner Public Utility District (TDPUD), Northstar Community Services District (NSCSD) and Placer County Water Agency (PCWA) continue its partnership in developing a groundwater management plan and groundwater model for the Martis Valley basin. This effort recently gained further technical resources with the addition of a Lawrence Liver...Read More

The Mountain Messenger | Nevada City: Water here is costing more

2/3/2012 10:37 AM

Residents here are entering the second of three years of steadily growing water bills as the city tries to get its water fund back in the black...Read More

Billionaire Timber Baron Red Emmerson and Sierra Pacific Industries Asked to Stop Logging Spotted Owl Habitat

2/3/2012 8:57 AM

Today the Environmental Protection Information Center (EPIC) delivered a formal notice of intent to sue letter to the billionaire Archie Aldis "Red" Emmerson and his company, Sierra Pacific Industries, Inc., for harming Northern Spotted Owls in violation of the Endangered Species Act. By clearcut logging within known spotted owl territories, the c...Read More

Yosemite Area Businesses Offer Discounts for Valentine's Day Travelers

2/3/2012 8:08 AM

Many Yosemite area businesses are offering various discounts and packages for travelers looking to take a romantic trip around Valentine's Day according to the Yosemite Sierra Visitors Bureau...Read More

USDA Selects Local Forest Restoration Proposal

2/3/2012 8:04 AM

Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced a second round of Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Program projects designed to expand the number of forested acres to be treated to reduce fire threat, help local economies and accomplish critical forest restoration objectives. The Amador-Calaveras Consensus Group Cornerston...Read More

Lake Tahoe Athletes Medal at 2012 Winter X Games

2/3/2012 8:00 AM

Lake Tahoe competitors did the region proud with a dozen of the Sierra Nevada's best taking part in the 2012 Winter X Games held at Buttermilk Mountain in Aspen, Colorado January 26-29...Read More

U.S. Counties with Thriving Small Businesses Have Healthier Residents

2/3/2012 7:15 AM

Counties and parishes with a greater concentration of small, locally-owned businesses have healthier populations — with lower rates of mortality, obesity and diabetes — than do those that rely on large companies with "absentee" owners, according to a national study by sociologists at LSU and Baylor University...Read More

Don Baumgart: Is this what Susan Komen would have wanted?

2/2/2012 8:37 PM

The cancer-fighting corporation known by the name of a woman who died of breast cancer, the Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation, familiar for its pink emblems, has shown its true colors: that of a corporation seeking to perpetuate itself, not of a group truly searching for a cure...Read More