The U.S. Coast Guard plans to release its first boating safety app on May 16 as the kickoff to this year’s National Safe Boating Week (May 16-22). The app was mainly designed to provide additional boating safety resources for mobile device users. It was not designed to replace a boater’s marine VHF radio. The app will be available on […]
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By Kathryn Reed It’s not just professional sports teams paying more attention to athletes with concussions. It’s a big deal in the Tahoe-Truckee area, too. One of the problems is there is no diagnostic tool for medical professionals to use to test if someone sustained a concussion or if they have fully recovered. That is […]
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By Robert Reich These days it’s not unusual for someone on the way to work to receive a text message from her employer saying she’s not needed right then. Although she’s already found someone to pick up her kid from school and arranged for childcare, the work is no longer available and she won’t be […]
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Rajan Zed will be the guest speaker at Unity at the Lake on May 17. He will be sharing his unique and powerful experiences in the interfaith movement. Zed is a distinguished religious statesman residing in Reno who has taken up Hindu, interfaith, peace, environmental and other causes all over the world. He read the […]
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By Amber Phillips, Las Vegas Sun WASHINGTON — Sen. Harry Reid is receptive of Sheldon Adelson’s push to ban all forms of online gambling, including poker. Reid said in an interview Monday that if he isn’t able to get an exemption for poker from a proposed ban of online gaming making its way through Congress, […]
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By Kyle Roerink, Las Vegas Sun CARSON CITY — In an opinion expected to be widely disputed by both consumer groups and advocates of competitive energy marketplaces, the Nevada Public Utilities Commission’s legal staff has ruled that a major digital technology company must pay $27 million to cut its ties with NV Energy and produce […]
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A juvenile is in police custody after allegedly starting a series of fires in Truckee. Truckee and CalFire firefighters responded to and quickly extinguished a series of what they said were intentionally set fires in the vegetation behind homes in the Tahoe Donner subdivision on May 13. “This is a reminder of the importance of […]
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Lake Tahoe Community College and South Tahoe Middle School were on lockdown briefly Wednesday afternoon because someone reported hearing shots being fired in the meadow by the college. “Within about 30 minutes we had sufficiently searched the area to realize there was no imminent threat to anyone so the all clear was given,” Police Chief […]
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· El Dorado County CAO Pamela Knorr on May 12 announced the county would begin recruiting for the chief administrator officer job. She said she will bring back details to the board soon. She was appointed as interim CAO earlier this year for one year. · Valhalla Tahoe is looking for volunteers for the summer […]
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The Douglas County Public Library is having book sales May 22 from 1-5pm, May 23 from 9am-5pm and May 24 from 11am-2pm. The sale will be at the Douglas County Community and Senior Center, 1329 Waterloo Lane in Gardnerville. Thousands of used books and audio books will be for sale; DVDs and music CDs will also be […]
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