By Chris Kudialis, Las Vegas Sun Reclining leather seats, a 42-inch television screen and stencils of bright red marijuana leaves illuminate the back of 420 Tours’ sport utility vehicle. The SUV, along with a 30-foot bus, are used by Nevada’s first cannabis tour company, which takes people looking for a medical marijuana card and legal […]
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California Transportation Plan 2040 lays out a vision for state’s transportation future by providing mobility, supporting a vibrant economy and meeting greenhouse gas emission reduction goals. CTP 2040 envisions a fully integrated, multimodal and sustainable transportation system in California. It is designed to to meet the state’s goal to reduce emissions by 80 percent below 1990 […]
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Each spring the El Dorado region comes alive to offer wine enthusiasts an assortment of wine and food pairings, barrel tastings, art, music, and other activities. El Dorado Winery Association’s 25th annual Passport Wine event is April 9-10 and April 16-17 from 11am-5pm. Twenty-four wineries will be participating. Passport holders will receive a commemorative 25-year wine glass. For tickets […]
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Longtime South Lake Tahoe resident and business owner Alexander Osti died of heart failure Feb. 21, 2016. He was 85. Born in Santa Monica to immigrant parents, Alexander was a first-generation Californian. His first job at age 13 was in a slaughterhouse. He retired as a journeyman butcher in 2006. During his career he worked in numerous slaughterhouses in Southern […]
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By Kathryn Reed While the discussion was about a parade policy, the spectacle was more like a middle school play yard filled with prepubescent teens squabbling over something so inane that no rational adult would understand the significance of the banter. And, yet, the people doing the bickering were the five elected members of the […]
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By Dan Walters, Sacramento Bee Over the last four decades, California has borrowed nearly $45 billion via bonds to finance construction projects for the state’s K-12 school districts. Repaying the loans with interest has roughly doubled the face value of those bonds. And as Jerry Brown winds down his second governorship, he wants to change […]
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By Robert Salonga, Mercury News Jaycee Lee Dugard, who miraculously resurfaced in 2009 after 18 years of captivity in an Antioch back yard during which her kidnapper fathered two daughters with her, will release a second memoir chronicling her life since being freed, her publisher announced Tuesday. “Freedom: My Book of Firsts,” is set for […]
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By Rebecca Klein, Huffington Post The seeds of the achievement gap in science are planted before a child has ever set foot in an elementary school, according to a new study. The new report out this month looks to explain why white, upper-class eighth-graders tend to perform much better in science than their low-income and […]
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Two of the 19 businesses recognized by the California Air Resources Board for leadership and making notable, voluntary achievements toward reducing their carbon footprint are from Lake Tahoe. Elevated Fitness in South Lake Tahoe and Granlibakken Resort in Tahoe City were among the business that took a number of different actions to save money and […]
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Teams competing in May’s Amgen Tour of California bike race, which includes stops in Lake Tahoe, were announced today. The 11th annual men’s event will include 10 UCI WorldTour Teams, the most in race history, as some of the top cyclists in the world face off across nearly 800 miles of California terrain May 15-22. The […]
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