Longtime local resident Dave Wakeman remembers attending this 1948 Easter Egg Hunt at age 6. The Bijou Park Club on Highway 50 sponsored the annual egg hunts and other community events when the local population numbered only in the hundreds. The building fell victim to the rampant construction of motels and attractions preceding the 1960 […]
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By Kathryn Reed VOLCANO – Life and death all in a matter of weeks. Mother Nature can be cruel that way. While the blooms of Daffodil Hill had clearly passed their peak on the first full day of spring, by March 21 the iconic outpost in Amador County was closed for the season. It has […]
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By John L. Smith, Las Vegas Review-Journal The water crisis in Flint, Mich., has gone national with blanket media coverage. The problem is as plain as the brown muck that’s been flowing from kitchen faucets. President Obama and a long slate of lesser political figures have sounded the alarm and weighed in on the subject […]
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By Christopher Cadelago, Sacramento Bee The voice on the telephone recording could have been that of a stockbroker in a bull market. Instead, it was the head of a firm that collects signatures for proposed initiatives scrambling to qualify for California’s November ballot. Carl Towe’s call-in service provides updates on the unprecedented and rapidly rising […]
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Weather permitting, Tahoe Douglas Fire Protection District, Nevada Division of Forestry, California State Parks and the U.S. Forest Service may continue prescribed fire operations March 28. On the North and West shores, operations may take place in Burton Creek and Sugar Pine Point state parks. On the East Shore, operations may take place near Sand […]
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El Dorado County is increasing fees for the public – some of which have remained the same price for more than 20 years. The decision came on a split vote this week with Supervisors Brian Veerkamp, Ron Mikulaco and Sue Novasel in favor of the measure and Supervisors Shiva Frentzen and Michael Ranalli in the […]
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By John Myers and Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times Lawmakers and labor unions have struck a tentative deal to raise the statewide minimum wage to $10.50 an hour next year and then gradually to $15, averting a costly political campaign this fall and possibly putting California at the forefront of a national movement. The deal […]
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Incline Business Network is conducting a forum next week about potential impacts to Incline Village from a medical marijuana dispensary that is about to open. Dispensaries are new to Nevada, while neighboring California has had them for several year. The one in Incline – NuLeaf – is slated to open this spring on Tahoe Boulevard. […]
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South Lake Tahoe has more than 250 youth that are in transition due to life circumstances. These include foster children, transitional age youth who may be homeless and couch surfers. They are without permanent homes. They frequently carry their limited belonging from place to place in plastic garbage bags. To help these youth bring some […]
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By Matt Stevens, Los Angeles Times The El Niño-fueled storms that have swept through Northern California in recent weeks have swelled some of the state’s largest reservoirs to encouraging levels even as the state’s drought persists. One of the biggest beneficiaries has been Lake Shasta, a keystone reservoir of the Central Valley project, which serves California […]
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