Record high temperatures were set this weekend and the same may happen next weekend. “We are going to have a high pressure over the area. There will be clear skies, sunny skies and just a lot of sunshine over the area,” Brian O’Hara, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Reno told Lake Tahoe News. […]
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Mashona is a white Chihuahua who is about 5 years old. She walks nicely on her leash and she loves to cuddle. She does well with other dogs and loves to play. Mashona is spayed, microchipped, tested for heart worm, and vaccinated. She is at the El Dorado County Animal Services shelter in Meyers, along […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE — Placer County is putting a twist on its area plan that other jurisdictions have not done. That is to tie an actual project to environmental documents. “An additional benefit is we will see what regulations do on the ground,” Arlo Stockholm, consultant for the county, last week told the Tahoe […]
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By Alex Abella, Los Angeles Times One hundred and sixty nine years ago in a frontier town, a band of thieves, drunks and murderers hoisted a home-made flag and declared themselves in revolt from a government that had welcomed them. Instigated by an expansionist neighboring power, the rebels aimed to take over completely and impose […]
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By Henry Alford, New York Times Let’s call it the aspirational R.S.V.P. — when someone replies yes to an invitation, even though he knows, or is fairly certain, that he can’t or won’t attend. “Aspirational R.S.V.P.s have become rampant, thanks to Facebook,” said the painter and translator Daisy Rockwell. “Very often when I post an […]
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A motorcyclist was killed Friday night in Zephyr Cove. The June 13 accident occurred about 9pm on Highway 50 at Martin Drive. A passer-by told Lake Tahoe News that parts of the motorcycle littered the highway. The other vehicle that was involved had its front end smashed, with air bags going off in the front and […]
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By Michael Beck, Outside You’re in a slump, reading these words hunched over a keyboard or your smartphone. It’s habit that’s throwing your body out of whack and resulting in a musculoskeletal system that’s about as architecturally sound as that 1950s-era Springbar tent gramps left you. “Our bodies adapt to the positions we put them […]
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By Sean Whaley, Las Vegas Review-Journal CARSON CITY — Gov. Brian Sandoval signed the final bills of the 2015 legislative session into law Friday, including a measure creating the “Breakfast After the Bell” program for schoolchildren and another providing $14 million for the construction of a Northern Nevada Veterans Home. In all, Sandoval signed 549 […]
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El Dorado County’s Probation Department has made strides to be a better place to work compared the previous year year, according to the grand jury. A year ago, the department was one of several that contributed to the county being called “dysfunctional” by the investigating body. The bulk of the problems were in the South Lake […]
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· The Rolling Chrome and Tahoe Thunder Car and MC Show will be at Heavenly Village in South Lake Tahoe on July 3-5. · The $42 million four-mile freeway extension between Fairview Drive and the Highway 50 in south Carson City is set to break ground June 15. The road is expected to open in 2017. · Douglas […]
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