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Tahoe Nugget: Climate change & snowpack depletion
FoxReno.com
The report, “Accelerated Climate Change: How a Shifting Flow Regime is Redefining Water Governance in California” focuses on the challenge of managing the Golden State's water resources as snowmelt and river flow patterns are altered in forced global ...

Work begins on Sawmill Road bike path
Tahoe Daily Tribune
The path will be 8 feet wide with 2-foot-wide dirt shoulders and will include water quality improvements. The route is scheduled to be open to the public on July 27. Construction costs are estimated at $842260 for the 3589-foot path.

Colleges go to the dogs for stress busters
KTVN
Immigration Customs Enforcement agent Marc Walker of Reno was arrested aroundMore >> Police are investigating a carjacking and beating of a student at Truckee Meadows Community College. School spokesman Kyle Dalpe says the victim was attacked about 9 ...

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60K hatchery-raised salmon now in sea pen
KTVN
The White House says the president will also continue to pressureMore >> Police are investigating a carjacking and beating of a student at Truckee Meadows Community College. School spokesman Kyle Dalpe says the victim was attacked about 9 am Wednesday ...

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Weather Window | Winter wrap up
North Lake Tahoe Bonanza
With the crucial exception of certain farming districts, no water restrictions are anticipated for the 25 million Californians who rely on the Sierra snowmelt. Locally, reservoir storage in the Truckee River Basin stood at 128 percent of average on May ...

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Weather Window | Winter wrap up
North Lake Tahoe Bonanza
Locally, reservoir storage in the Truckee River Basin stood at 128 percent of average on May 1. Ironically, a little more than one year after California Governor Jerry Brown declared the end of a three-year drought in March 2011, the state's driest ...

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Fleet of foot-long robots analyze Sacramento River
KTVN
More >> Police are investigating a carjacking and beating of a student at Truckee Meadows Community College. School spokesman Kyle Dalpe says the victim was attacked about 9 am Wednesday while parking hisMore >> We're launching our big month-long ...

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2 NY sites recall infamous traitor's early heroics
KTVN
More >> Jurors in New Jersey have delivered a mixed verdict at the trial of a marijuana activist who lives in California and goes by the name "NJWeedman."More >> Jurors in New Jersey have delivered a mixed verdict at the trial of a marijuana activist ...

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Health and Wellness Announcements
North Lake Tahoe Bonanza
Join a fun-filled and educational 10-day guide school on Northern California's exceptional whitewater rivers, progressing from Class II to Class V. The $700 tuition includes all meals, transportation, gear, instruction and CPR/First AID certifications.

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Up a creek without a permit
Tahoe Daily Tribune
By Dylan Silver A manhole cover marks a South Tahoe Public Utility District sewer line that crosses the Upper Truckee River. The 12-inch pipe was in danger of being damaged after high flows eroded the river bed and bank. Permits for a repair project ...

Company Buys Entire Second Floor of Palladio
KOLO
RENO, NV - An investment firm has bought the whole second floor or the Palladio building along the Truckee River downtown. company firm, says he has purchased the 6000-square-foot floor. He is working to convert 1000 square feet for his Reno ...

Granite lauded for its work on I-80 near state line
Sparks Today
Granite Construction Co. has been given the Gold Level Excellence in Partnering Award by the Caltrans Partnering Program for its work on the Truckee River Canyon project. The project consisted of highway reconstruction along the five-mile portion of ...

Upper Truckee sports new meanders
The Record-Courier
by Dylan Silver Floaters bobbing down the Upper Truckee may notice a few new bends and ripples as the river winds past Lake Tahoe Airport. The new curves are the result of an $8 million restoration project that replaced the river's old runway-straight ...

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Riffles in the River
Tahoe Daily Tribune
By Dylan Silver Michael Alexander, left, and Russ Wigart walk along a recently restored section of the Upper Truckee River near the Lake Tahoe Airport Friday. Russ Wigart takes a water sample from above a recently restored stretch of the Upper Truckee ...

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Mickey Hart Band kicks off Reno Artown fest July 1
KTVN
The Mickey Hart Band will open the 17th annual festival with the Sunday night show downtown at Wingfield Park on an island in the Truckee River. Organizers unveiled a list Thursday of nearly 500 events for the 2012 celebration, most of them free.

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California stream fishing season opens Saturday
Tahoe Daily Tribune
At North Shore, the Truckee River opens above the Highway 267 bridge. Martis Lake also opens Saturday. All of the rivers that flow into Lake Tahoe are closed until July. Possible thunderstorms this week shouldn't affect the fish, just the fishermen, ...

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Reno Breaks Heat Records
KOLO
At the Truckee River in downtown, people were wading into the frigid water for some relief from the heat. "It feels great but I can't feel my lower extremities but it feels good," Thomas Perkins of Reno said. "We were here yesterday but it's nice ...

Reno Breaks Heat Records
KOLO
At the Truckee River in downtown, people were wading into the frigid water for some relief from the heat. "It feels great but I can't feel my lower extremities but it feels good," Thomas Perkins of Reno said. "We were here yesterday but it's nice ...

Warm weather, good flows signal start of rafting season
The Record-Courier
IRIE Rafting will be tackling the Lower Truckee River and the Middle Fork of the American throughout the summer because they have guaranteed flows. Wohlfahrt expects the North Fork of the American River to be raftable until June or so and the East Fork ...

Warm weather, good flows signal start of rafting season
Tahoe Daily Tribune
IRIE Rafting will be tackling the Lower Truckee River and the Middle Fork of the American throughout the summer because they have guaranteed flows. Wohlfahrt expects the North Fork of the American River to be raftable until June or so and the East Fork ...