By Associated Press California lawmakers are joining environmental, labor and business leaders on a trip to see how Australia managed its longest and most severe drought on record. The nine-day visit that began Monday comes as California finishes its fourth year of drought. Australia endured a 12-year drought from 1997 to 2009. Democratic Senate President […]
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By Jessie Marchesseau This summer the Tahoe Rim Trail Association led the Connecting Tahoe Rim Trail Users to Transportation Alternatives project to study who was using the trail, what mode of transportation they used to get there, whether or not they were using two vehicles as shuttles (which equals even more miles driven) and whether […]
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By Joanne Marchetta Lake Tahoe has been recognized for another important conservation success. Our region’s proactive, collaborative strategy to protect Tahoe yellow cress, begun almost 15 years ago, is working so well that the plant does not need additional protections under the federal Endangered Species Act. This conservation success story is yet another example of […]
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By Nicholas Bakalar, New York Times There may be a link between later bedtimes and weight gain, new research suggests. Researchers studied 3,342 adolescents starting in 1996, following them through 2009. At three points over the years, all reported their normal bedtimes, as well as information on fast food consumption, exercise and television time. The […]
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· Douglas County Parks and Recreation is hosting a free Halloween Carnival at Kahle Community Center in Stateline on Oct. 31 from 4-6:30pm for all ages. · Tahoe Paradise Resort Improvement District’s board meets Oct. 22 at 6pm at the park. · Author Luis Alberto Urrea is part of the Writers in the Woods series […]
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South Lake Tahoe police are looking for Sam Tovar, 32, in connection with a drive-by shooting last week. Officers searched a mobile home park on Oct. 20, but did not locate the suspect. Tovar — who also goes by Primo and David Angeles — is a suspect in the Oct. 14 shooting of a 19-year-old South […]
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By Bill Theobald, USA Today WASHINGTON — The risk of severe wildfires in the West also threatens the region’s increasingly scarce water supply, a study finds. The study, released Wednesday by the American Forest Foundation, highlights that wildfires are not just a public lands issue. Private and family lands also are at high risk, the […]
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Place County this week took steps to make it easier for developers to build lodging for tourists. The Board of Supervisors on Oct. 20 approved the North Lake Tahoe Town Centers Economic Development Incentive Program and Implementation Plan. “The program seeks to build more certainty into the development and permitting processes, reducing the risk to […]
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The Food Bank of El Dorado County will be in South Lake Tahoe with its mobile food pantry, along with a free farmers market on Oct. 28 from 10-11am at the American Legion, 2748 Lake Tahoe Blvd. El Dorado County residents who meet California Health and Social Services Agency Emergency Food Assistance Program income guidelines […]
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By Joshua Zaffos, High Country News The central organization that advocates for Western states to take over federal public lands, Utah state Rep. Ken Ivory’s American Lands Council, is apparently running roughshod over state legislative rules. The Colorado secretary of state announced last week that it has “reasonable grounds to believe” the ALC may have violated […]
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