By Scott Sonner, AP A federal judge on Thursday threw out a lawsuit filed by a coalition of rural Nevada counties that wanted to force the government to sell or otherwise dispose of tens of thousands of mustangs in U.S. holding facilities. U.S. District Judge Miranda Du in Reno ruled in favor of wild horse […]
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Animal Coalition of Tahoe is putting on a Yappy Hour for people and their four-legged family members. The April 8 fundraiser is from 5-8pm on the patio at Base Camp Pizza in the Heavenly Village in South Lake Tahoe. A percentage of the food and drink sales go to ACT. ACT raises funds for a spay-neuter […]
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• Tahoe’s bears are out and about. They are playing and wandering the neighborhoods. • Tahoe is on FlipKey’s list of top winter destinations. • As part of North Lake Tahoe’s SnowFest, the 11th annual I-Did-A-Run at Tahoe Donner Downhill Ski Area raised $2,775 for the Humane Society of Truckee-Tahoe. • Tahoe City Public Utility […]
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By Kathryn Reed That runny nose and cough may not be a lingering cold. It could be allergies. There is no “allergy season” per se, just peak times for certain allergies. With plants beginning to bloom sooner than normal in the basin, people are experiencing allergic reactions to them. How this affects an individual all […]
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By Karin Klein, Los Angeles Times Citing the lack of evidence that homework does much if anything to improve academic performance in elementary grades, a principal in Manhattan notified parents that there would be no more after-school assignments for the public school’s students. And then came the rebellion — not from teachers, but from parents, […]
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By Riley Snyder, AP Nevada school districts are opposing a bill that would push back school start times and require an ethnic studies course in order to graduate from high school. Democratic state Sen. Tick Segerblom is the primary sponsor of SB211 and testified on the bill Thursday in the Senate Education Committee. Segerblom said […]
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By Kathryn Reed I may have never liked science, but if a book like “Teacher at Sea: Miss Cook’s Voyage on the Ronald H. Brown” had been around when I was a kid, maybe it would have piqued my interest. What is so fun about this book is that Miss Cook is a real person. […]
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By Kate Schimel, High Country News In the midst of fighting a wildfire, predicting the future is a matter of tracking invisible forces: gust fronts, storms, air columns. While firefighters battle the flames on the ground, fire experts look for signs that the weather or the wildfire might shift. They follow storm tracks, watch weather […]
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By Greg Keller, AP “Selfie sticks” have now been banned at a French palace and a British museum, joining a growing list of global tourist attractions to take such measures. The devices are used to improve snapshots, but critics say they are obnoxious and potentially dangerous. Officials at Palace of Versailles outside Paris, and Britain’s […]
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By USSA TIGNES, France — The final stop of the FIS World Cup halfpipe tour wrapped up under the lights in Tignes, France, with David Wise (Reno), Alex Ferreira (Aspen) and Brita Sigourney (Carmel) all snagging podium spots and Wise walking away with his first crystal globe as the halfpipe tour title winner. A much […]
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