Students who want to apply for admission to the Lake Tahoe Basin Fire Academy at Lake Tahoe Community College for fall must attend a mandatory orientation meeting on Aug. 5 at 6pm in the college board room. Based on student demand, there may be a random lottery for available seats in the fire academy. Students will […]
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· Quinn Deveaux & the Blue Beat Review will be at the Boathouse Theatre on the South Shore on July 29 at 7:30pm. For more info, go online. · Barton Health is putting on a talk about robotic surgery on Aug. 6 from 6-7pm at Lake Tahoe Community College’s board room. The talk […]
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A 93-year-old Zephyr Cove man died Monday in a single-vehicle accident. The driver, whose name has not been released pending notification of next of kin, was going west on Kingsbury Grade near Katherine Drive on July 20 about 2:44pm when his pickup drifted off the road onto dirt and struck a tree. He was transported […]
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By Stefan Nicola, BloombergBusiness Earth warmed to a record in the first half of the year, putting new pressure on nations from the U.S. to China to try to curb climate change at a United Nations summit in Paris this December. Global land and sea surface temperatures from January through June were 1.53 degrees Fahrenheit […]
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Nevada Highway Patrol will be working around the clock to urge drivers and riders to slow their speed in an effort to eliminate the recent spike in statewide fatalities. Troopers will be focused on enforcing speed limit laws through Aug. 10. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s Fatalities Analysis Reporting System, Nevada has seen […]
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“A Midsummer’s Night Dream” will be at the Boathouse Theatre on the South Shore for one weekend. The July 23-25 performances begin at 7:30pm. “The course of true love never did run smooth,” wrote William Shakespeare in his most famous comedy. The play will be presented with a Tahoe twist. The actors are all young adults. […]
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Four remote mountain peaks in central and northeastern Nevada are home to a real-time camera fire-detection system. A Bureau of Land Management Nevada grant awarded to the UNR to develop, install, and maintain a remote camera system, is in the initial phase of a five-year planned comprehensive network to cover vast areas of the state […]
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By Kathryn Reed After hours of talk Tuesday by South Lake Tahoe staff and electeds, plus comments from 22 members of the public, the politicians went forward with a new vacation home rental ordinance. Prior to that, during the temporary arts and crafts show discussion, Councilman Tom Davis said it was important to enforce the rules […]
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By Joe Mathews California has an official state flower (poppy), state insect (the Dogface Butterfly), and state theater (the Pasadena Playhouse). But no official state sport. Unless you count the great Californian pastime of overestimating our own population growth. It should be enough that, at 38.7 million, we’re the most populous state in the Union. […]
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By Jennifer Calfas, USA Today A higher percentage of children live in poverty now than did during the Great Recession, according to anew report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation released Tuesday. About 22 percent of children in the U.S. lived below the poverty line in 2013, compared with 18 percent in 2008, the foundation’s 2015 […]
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