To the community, The $250 donation to sponsor the May 25 Bread & Broth Adopt A Day of Nourishment was provide by a grant from John McDougall, of the Pay It Forward Community Fund through the Parasol Tahoe Community Foundation. Through the Parasol Foundation, McDougall has set up a Pay It Forward Scholarship and High […]
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By Peter Robison, Nacha Cattan and Benjamin Bain, BloombergBusiness The street lieutenant fidgeting in a Ciudad Juárez pizza parlor deals drugs for Barrio Azteca, a gang that emerged from Texas prisons in the 1980s to control a chunk of illegal shipments from Mexico into the U.S. Southwest. Think No Country for Old Men—secret nighttime drops, […]
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By Peter Hecht, Sacramento Bee Andy Harris came to the courtroom Friday with a lengthy prepared statement: a tribute to Robert “Bob” Harris, the former U.S. Forest Service supervisor for the Tahoe basin and the father he loved and idolized. In his written text, the son was also going to ask the judge to show […]
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By Rong-Gong Lin II, Los Angeles Times A panel of water experts on Sunday mapped out the challenges California faces in meeting future demands for water at a time when water sources are under stress and future supplies appear uncertain. The panel, speaking at the Los Angeles Times book club, agreed the problems are serious […]
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Firefighters spent part of today fighting two small wildland fires. The first was reported about 10am June 8 at Incline Lake. It burned about one-quarter of an acre. The cause is under investigation, but is presumed to be human caused because there has been no lightning. The U.S. Forest Service and North Lake Tahoe Fire […]
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By Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazette-Journal There’s an adage in politics that says if you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu. During Nevada’s recent legislative session, that message applied to coyotes and mountain lions as much as it did to lobbyists, at least when it came to Assembly Bill 78. The bill started life […]
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· Ellie Waller, who was at the June 6 Foreigner concert at MontBleu, raved about the concert. She received two free tickets and was able to meet the band because she is a Lake Tahoe News subscriber. · Rachel Michelin, 43, of El Dorado Hills has been reappointed to the California State Board of Optometry, […]
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Zephyr Cove Tennis Club is offering three weeks worth of instruction for youth starting this week. The lessons are for those who will be in grades 2-7 for the 2015-16 school year. Second- through fourth-graders will play from noon-1:15pm on Mondays-Wednesdays-Fridays for the weeks of June 8, June 15 and June 22. Fifth- through seventh-graders will […]
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By Kevin Freking, AP WASHINGTON — Drought has killed about 12 million trees in California’s national forests. In the Rocky Mountain region, an epidemic of pine beetles has damaged trees over a stretch of 32 million acres. Altogether, up to 40 percent of the entire national forest system is in need of treatment to reduce […]
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By Ben Miller, Denver Business Journal Lift ticket revenue grew by more than 13 percent at Vail Resorts Inc. in the third quarter. But the company still missed analysts’ expectations. Broomfield, Colo.-based Vail reported third-quarter total revenue grew to $579.3 million, and earnings were $3.56 per diluted share, from total revenue of $543 million, and […]
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