· Truckee planning commissioners are having a workshop on the proposed Truckee Springs development on May 4 at 6pm in council chambers at the airport. · James Murtagh was promoted to golf manager of Tahoe Donner Golf Course. · A meeting about the Tahoe Area Plan will be on May 4 from 5:30-7pm at the […]
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By Associated Press Authorities in Northern California are looking for information in a 35-year-old case involving a woman’s disappearance and death. The El Dorado County District Attorney’s Office says 28-year-old Debney Lynn Lobanoff was last seen by her husband in December 1981 in their Placerville home. Authorities say they were having marital troubles and her husband […]
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By Scott Sonner, AP GARDNERVILLE — Residents of a rural Northern Nevada town are volunteering in the first public-private partnership of its kind providing water for wild horses on the range and shooting the mares with contraceptive darts to help shrink the size of the herd. Leaders of the Pine Nut Wild Horse Advocates in […]
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By Kathryn Reed Millennials are not something to be feared, laughed at or ignored. They are merely the next generation. These 18- to 34-year-olds are here and they aren’t going anywhere. What they are doing, though, is changing how those in the tourism industry think. And if people aren’t changing their thinking, they are bound […]
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Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the April 24, 2016, Reno Gazette-Journal. The voices of thousands of Nevada voters will not be heard because of a law passed by the Legislature last year. Senate Bill 499 was approved unanimously by the Senate and two-thirds of the Assembly before being signed by Gov. Brian Sandoval. Despite […]
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By Lindsay Holmes and Anna Almendrala, Huffington Post If you need any more proof that mental health disorders are a public health issue, look no further than rising suicide rates over the last decade and a half. Deaths from suicide have increased 24 percent from 1999 to 2014, according to an analysis of Americans aged […]
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By David Goldman, CNN The 2016 World Press Freedom Index shows that world leaders are cracking down on the press’ freedom. World leaders paranoid about journalism are cracking down on press freedom, continuing a recent trend in which governments are increasing their influence over the media. “There has been a deep and disturbing decline in […]
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By Kathryn Reed The investigation into the April 11 oil spill at the Tahoe Keys has expanded beyond that one incident. “There seems to be a fair amount of things that need to be addressed. I understand there is lot of history in that particular marina that we’ve just been made aware of,” Mitch Goode, […]
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By Bill Swindell, Santa Rosa Press Democrat North Coast Rep. Mike Thompson proposed a series of federal tax breaks Monday for the U.S. wine industry, including a proposal to slash a tax on sparkling wine that has lingered since the aftermath of Prohibition. The St. Helena Democrat, who owns a vineyard in Lake County, teamed […]
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Entries are open for the second annual Lake Tahoe WordWave One-Act Play Competition. WordWave, A Festival of Story at Lake Tahoe, will return Oct. 21-23 to the Tallac Historic Site on the South Shore. Winners of the play competition receive a $500 and the chance to see their work directed and produced as a reading […]
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