By Jane L. Lever, New York Times It wasn’t long ago that the main selling point of a piece of luggage was its durability — think American Tourister and its rather excitable gorilla. Not for Kevin Harwood. Like many travelers today, he is looking for technology to go along with durability. He stumbled across a […]
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• Gregory Bergner will retire from Barton Urgent Care & Family Practice on April 14. He has served as Barton’s chief of staff and is one of Barton’s board of directors. In 1981, Bergner opened Tahoe Family Physicians with Brooks Martin and Paul Rork. • South Lake Tahoe Optimist Club Easter Egg Hunt at Lake […]
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By Amanda MacMillan, Outside Endurance athletes are at risk of an iron deficiency. And if you are iron-deficient, a supplement may indeed improve your performance and health. But if your iron levels are normal, or close to normal, taking a pill every day won’t affect much besides your wallet. Michael Zourdos, assistant professor of exercise […]
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By Kathryn Reed A creamy soup without any cream. Already it’s healthier than so many others. I’m not sure I have had a spinach soup before, but in keeping with the spinach kick I’ve be on this year, I figured this would be a new way to ingest this leafy vegetable. The curry-oil drizzle as […]
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By Anne Knowles RENO — The fourth consecutive year of drought in and around Lake Tahoe is shaping up to be the worst by far. Snowpack in the Lake Tahoe Basin is down to 3 percent of normal, said Nevada State Climatologist Doug Boyle, during a presentation on the drought at the UNR on Tuesday. […]
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The Super Bowl often makes that month’s gaming numbers in Nevada in the positive. Not so this February. Losses on the Strip helped bring down the entire state, according to the Nevada Gaming Control Board. Casinos won $916.1 million in February, a drop of 1.08 percent compared to 2014. Stateline properties, though, fared better. They […]
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By Larry Weitzman A few months ago the Road Beat had a chance to test the best compact car in current production, the Mazda 3 2.5L hatchback, a virtual econo-rocket that combines excellent performance with phenomenal fuel economy, plus near sports car handling coupled with good ride quality. But that was a fully loaded Mazda […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe has an overabundance of lodging units. With 26 percent of the more than 5,000 rooms within the 120 hotels-motels being used for long-term rentals, the city is on a quest to change the rental market landscape. In doing so, it could help the hotel market so the less desirable […]
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Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the March 23, 2015, Sacramento Bee. An out-of-control wildfire is just as much a natural disaster as a hurricane or flood. Just ask Californians who fled for their lives or saw their homes burn down in recent years. But that’s not how wildfires are handled in the federal […]
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By Amanda MacMillan, Outdoors Lindsey Vonn made history this year with her 64th World Cup win — the most ever for a female skier — after spending most of 2014 rehabbing a torn ACL. Even more remarkable: she had not one but two major knee surgeries in the past two years. Many people who tear […]
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