· Royal Gorge cross country ski area is closed because of flooding. · Rediscovering Gershwin takes place Feb. 21 and Feb. 23 at the Pioneer Center for Performing Arts in Reno. · Here at this week’s roadwork schedules for El Dorado-Tahoe and Sierra from Caltrans. · Sierra Snowkite Center at Soda Springs is back in business after two winters of […]
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The challenge to California’s fire fee is moving forward. Sacramento Superior Court Judge Shelleyanne W.L. Chang last month granted the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers’ Association’s motion to notice a class of litigants who want to abolish the fee being assessed on people living in state responsibility areas. Those in Meyers are paying the annual CalFire fee. […]
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Douglas County School District is on a one-hour delay today because of the snow. Washoe County schools are on a two-hour delay. Roads are slick. For chain requirements and other details about the highways, click on the state icons on the Home page of Lake Tahoe News. For those going into the backcountry on Feb. […]
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Chester is a mastiff mix puppy who is 6 months old. He has been at the shelter for two months. He is the only dog in the shelter right now who is quiet even when all the other dogs are barking. He just sits silently at the door waiting for his walk. Chester loves other […]
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By Kathryn Reed INCLINE VILLAGE – Looking a bit like the desert of southern Utah, the landscape seems familiar. But this is another world. Curiosity, a six-wheeled robot about the size of a car, is providing scientists with new insight about the composition of Mars as well as photographs of Earth’s neighbor. “There are layers […]
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By Larry Weitzman Some habits are hard to change as El Dorado County government has the habit of appearing to violate the law. One of the most recent transgressions was what appears to be the illegal hiring of interim CAO Larry T. Combs. Combs is a CalPERS annuitant, meaning he has retired from a government […]
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By Tara Bahrampour, Washington Post “I have a confession to make,” Bill Thomas announced several months ago at a conference on aging in Oregon. “I am an old man.” “No, you’re not!” an audience member called out. It was meant, no doubt, as a compliment: Despite his gray-streaked beard and crow’s feet, the 56-year-old geriatrician-***-thespian […]
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By George Johnson, New York Times Epidemiologists have long been puzzled by a strange pattern in their data: People living at higher altitudes appear less likely to get lung cancer. Associations like these can be notoriously misleading. Slice and dice the profusion of data, and there is no end to the coincidences that can arise. […]
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By Jon Marcus, Boston Globe ALBUQUERQUE — If there’s a place that symbolizes pre-interstate America, it’s Route 66, built to connect Chicago with Los Angeles, which John Steinbeck dubbed “the mother road.” From Depression-era migrants to returning GIs to family vacationers, motorists on Route 66 rolled past Vegas-style neon hovering over low-rise diners, motor courts, […]
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South Lake Tahoe police detectives believe a drug deal gone wrong led to Saturday night’s shooting death of Dennis Michael Wright Jr. The 40-year-old from Amador County was shot at least once in the chest on Jan. 30 at about 7:45pm in the parking lot of the Beverly Lodge. He died shortly thereafter at Barton […]
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