Chemicals from a vehicle were cleaned up before they reached Lake Tahoe after a single-car crash on July 8 in Tahoe Vista. Placer County Office of Emergency Services reported cleaning up 55 gallons of isocyanate, Jessie Fidler, 24, of Tahoe City was going east on Highway 28 about 3:50pm Wednesday when she dozed off, according […]
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· Placer County Board of Supervisors this month adopted an ordinance that will prohibit camping on most county-owned properties beginning Aug. 6. · Construction of Bijou Bike Park in South Lake Tahoe starts next week. · El Dorado County Auditor-Controller Joe Harn has been dismissed from the Kelly Webb lawsuit. · Local historian Dave Long […]
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The Lake Tahoe Restoration Act of 2015 was introduced today by the four senators representing California and Nevada. The bipartisan legislation was crafted to protect the Lake Tahoe region by improving water clarity, reducing wildfire threat, jumpstarting innovative transportation and infrastructure projects, and combating invasive species. The federal legislation would bring $415 million to the basin over […]
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By Kim Severson, New York Times SANTA CRUZ — Andrea Nguyen, who writes cookbooks for a living, knows that making pho in a pressure cooker is not the solution to California’s drought. Still, developing a reasonable version of the Vietnamese noodle soup that can be made in less than an hour, with half the water, […]
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By Megan Messerly, Las Vegas Sun Hot on the heels of San Francisco and Seattle, Los Angeles became the most recent city on the West Coast to pass a $15-an-hour minimum wage. Los Angeles’ increase, which won’t be fully instituted until 2020, is the latest in a trend of minimum wage increases across the nation. […]
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Magic Dan brings a fast-paced program that is educational and fun to the Douglas County Public Library Lake Tahoe Branch on July 16. He fills his performances with positive messages that reinforce reading and self-esteem. Magic Dan is celebrating 20 years as a magician. He has entertained thousands of children of all ages. \ The show […]
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By Los Angeles Times Close your eyes and imagine the smell of baking bread, of a pungent curry dish, of popcorn at the movies or a bouquet of freshly cut tea roses. If these prompts send you into swoons of olfactory delight, there’s a good chance that upon opening your eyes, an obese person could […]
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By Kathryn Reed Rumbling, crackling and flashes of white light. It’s just another day in Lake Tahoe. Oh, and there is fresh snow on Tioga Pass. Hail has been common with this series of storms that is now in its second week. On July 8 golf-ball size hail was recorded in South Lake Tahoe. More […]
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By Zócalo It doesn’t take more than a stroll down a city street to see that America has a homelessness problem. The guy tucked into in a stained blanket on the bench, the woman pushing a cart filled with everything she owns — from New York to Los Angeles, there are more than half a […]
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By Dacher Keltner and Paul Ekman, New York Times Five years ago, the writer and director Pete Docter of Pixar reached out to us to talk over an idea for a film, one that would portray how emotions work inside a person’s head and at the same time shape a person’s outer life with other […]
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