North Tahoe Public Utility District is reminding residents and homeowners to take precautions to make sure homes and water lines are prepared. For pipes that are known to freeze, insulate and heat tape them to be sure they don’t freeze. Leave them dripping as a last resort. Never completely shut the heat off when you are […]
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To the community, On behalf of the Tahoe Coalition for the Homeless, I would like to thank Barton Health employees and physicians for their incredible generosity. More than 647 employees in 35 departments participated in a fundraising drive for the South Lake Tahoe Warm Room. Employees and physicians raised $2,040 in funds and donated more […]
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By Michael Birnbaum, Washington Post ROTTERDAM — In this traffic-packed Dutch city, electric cars jostle for space at charging stations. The oldest exhaust-spewing vehicles will soon be banned from the city center. Thanks to generous tax incentives, the share of electric vehicles has grown faster in the Netherlands than in nearly any other country in […]
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More than 500 students in grades K-12 throughout South Lake Tahoe received a new, warm winter coat through the efforts of the Kiwanis Community Organization Inc. The project ensures every child here who needs one receives a coat at no charge. This project is made possible with the support of donations from service organizations, individuals, […]
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By Mae Anderson, AP If the beginning of the holiday season is any indication, it could be a merry mobile Christmas for shoppers. For the first time, there’s expected to be more people visiting retailers’ websites through their smartphones than on desktop computers or tablets during the first weekend of the holiday shopping season that […]
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Douglas County students at the lake will be picked up at the main bus stops today. Lake Tahoe Community College is open as normal. Lake Tahoe Unified and Tahoe Truckee Unified school districts, and Incline Village schools were already closed Wednesday for the Thanksgiving break. A winter weather advisory remains in effect for the Lake […]
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By Carina Storrs, CNN Throughout the ages, coffee has been called a virtue and a vice for our health. The latest study comes down in favor of virtue: It says that drinking coffee, whether regular or decaf, could reduce the risk of death. Researchers started with data from surveys of adults in the United States […]
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By Guy Kovner, Santa Rosa Press Democrat As California prepares to bring in the $1 billion medical marijuana industry from the legal shadows, growers and marketers on the pot-rich North Coast are waiting to see how much the massive regulatory structure will cost them and whether to stick instead with the prosperous but risky outlaw status […]
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By Sara Jenkins As I write this, I’m still full. I just returned from an extravagant Sunday lunch at my neighbors’ house here in this small Tuscan town, where my parents first bought a tumbledown farmhouse in 1971. We feasted to celebrate my successful olive harvest. First we fired up their 300-year-old wood oven and […]
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When most people think about Thanksgiving, they envision turkey, pumpkin pie and time spent with their loved ones. Firefighters are thinking about kitchen fires. “It is critical to not get distracted and to always stand next to what you are cooking. Thanksgiving Day is often one of our busier days responding to home cooking fires,” CalFire Director Ken Pimlott said in […]
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