By Associated Press California officials are considering allowing inmates with violent backgrounds to work outside prison walls fighting wildfires, and the idea is generating concerns about public safety. The state has the nation’s largest and oldest inmate firefighting unit, with about 3,800 members who provide critical assistance to professional firefighters. That’s down from about 4,400 […]
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By Jack Perry, Providence Journal A sheriff’s office in California is asking for help in finding a 23-year-old college student from Rhode Island. Dianne Thacher’s family has not heard from her since Oct. 5, and the family reported her missing Oct. 11, according to the Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office. Thacher, who is from South […]
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By Chris Moody and Alexander Rosen, CNN The sportsbook section at the South Point Casino was packed, the nearby bar overflowed and rowdy gamblers dressed in their team’s colors crowded the walls while they gazed up at screens broadcasting live football games. It was a Sunday—the busiest time for sports betting–and Jimmy Vaccaro, the casino’s […]
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Hear from a team of experts on Nov. 4 about how to stay injury free during the winter season. Terry Orr from Tahoe Center for Orthopedics will share what happens when a knee gets injured and LTCC anatomy Professor Beach Orr will teach about the anatomy of the knee. Two of Barton Health’s certified athletic […]
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By Kathryn Reed TWIN BRIDGES – It might behoove skiers and snowboarders to adopt the hikers’ mantras of “leave not trace” and “pack it in, pack it out”. More than a ton of trash (2,047.6 pounds to be exact) was removed from the slopes of Sierra-at-Tahoe on Sunday. This was the ninth year the ski […]
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By Kelly Shanahan Sometimes it takes an earthquake to wake you up. My personal earthquake jolted me on Nov. 14, 2013, when I was diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer. My carefully constructed world came crumbling down; I could no longer perform surgery, the core of my life as an ob-gyn; the plans for eventually retiring […]
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By Lydia O’Connor, Huffington Post California became the first state to ban public schools from using “Redskins” as a team name, nickname or mascot on Sunday in a move applauded by Native American activists. Signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown, the California Racial Mascots Act outlaws schools’ use of the slur effective Jan. 1, 2017. Oneida […]
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By Henry Brean, Las Vegas Review-Journal The alpine lakes high in Nevada’s only national park are warmer now than they have been for thousands of years, according to findings by a team from Ohio State University. For the past decade, the researchers have conducted a variety of studies at Great Basin National Park, 300 miles northeast […]
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By Jeremy B. White, Sacramento Bee Heather Maloney thinks of herself as an environmentalist but, as a working mother, doesn’t have the time to create a backyard compost heap. The little bucket for food waste that Napa’s recycling authority sent her offers a more convenient way to keep her leftovers from lining a landfill. “You’re […]
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Lake Tahoe Community College is going to be the site of an all-day avalanche workshop on Oct. 17. The California Avalanche Workshop is a pre-season gathering of snow travelers to share knowledge, learn, laugh, and network. This seminar is modeled after the International Snow Science Workshop and other regional one-day snow and avalanche workshops throughout […]
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