By April Dembosky, NPR In recent years, expensive specialty medicines used to treat cancer and chronic illnesses have forced some very ill Americans to choose between getting proper treatment and paying their rent. To ease the financial burden, the California agency that governs the state’s Obamacare plans issued landmark rules Thursday that will put a […]
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John Mackay and William Sharon were the wealthiest of the men to emerge from Nevada’s Comstock Lode. They were also the most influential. Mackay, who rose from poverty, was the hero of Virginia City, respected by its miners and mine owners, idolized by its children. Sharon, the brains behind the “Bank Crowd,” was generally perceived […]
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By Jessica Calefati, Bay Area News Group SACRAMENTO — Since taking office in 2011, Gov. Jerry Brown has helped to resolve some of California’s toughest fiscal challenges — mainly huge structural deficits and old, forgotten debts. But this year he appears ready to take on Mission Impossible — getting Democrats and Republicans to agree to […]
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By Sandra Postel, National Geographic Earlier this month, Starbucks announced that it would stop sourcing and producing its bottled water brand, Ethos Water, in California and shift production from the Golden State to Pennsylvania. In explaining its decision, the beverage maker cited “the serious drought conditions and necessary water conservation efforts.” With California in its […]
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Award-winning television journalist Bob Woodruff will give a talk on the North Shore on June 6. Woodruff is widely known as a past co-anchor of ABC News’ broadcast “World News Tonight”. In 2006, while reporting on U.S. and Iraqi security forces for ABC, he was critically wounded by a roadside bomb. The traumatic brain injury nearly killed him. […]
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Rock the Ridge Concert is a fundraiser to protect Tahoe’s ridgelines from development. Peter Joseph Burtt and the King Tide, Sneaky Creatures, Flip the Record, Charles the 1st, Zebuel, and IJV will play at the North Tahoe Regional Park in Tahoe Vista on June 20 from 1-8pm. There will also be a raffle, silent auction, […]
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By Carina Storrs, CNN Recently a 76-year-old man known as HB, whose health had been deteriorating, tried to take his own life and was admitted to North Shore University Hospital on Long Island. Doctors decided that HB would not be able to go back to living by himself because of his condition and complications while […]
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A fisher girl did on her first outing what some veterans have never done – catch a mackinaw weighing more than 15 pounds. “I think she wanted to cry she was so exhausted,” Capt. Andrew Lubrano of Nor-Cal Charters told Lake Tahoe News. Seven-year-old Circe Bailey had a single minnow on the other end of […]
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Publisher’s note: This letter was originally sent to Ricardo Suarez, division director of Central Federal Lands Highway Division, regarding the Fanny Bridge Community Revitalization Project. It was then sent to Lake Tahoe News for publication. Dear Mr. Suarez, I would like to thank the Central Federal Lands Highway Division and your staff members Michael Davies and […]
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By Associated Press Nevada senators have approved a bill that would reimburse teachers who buy classroom supplies with their own money. The Nevada Senate voted unanimously Monday to approve SB133, which is sponsored by Senate Majority Leader Michael Roberson and other Republicans. It would allow teachers a reimbursement of up to $250 per year if […]
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