• The 2015 Business Expo: Innovation in the Basin is March 27 from 4:30-8:30pm at Harrah’s Lake Tahoe. For more info, go online. • The Incline Bike Project is seeking signatures on a petition showing support to Incline Village General Improvement District for a pump track/bike park in Incline Village. • The 21st annual St. […]
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By Fenit Nirappil, AP SACRAMENTO — California health officials Wednesday declared electronic cigarettes a health threat that should be strictly regulated like tobacco products, joining other states and health advocates across the U.S. in seeking tighter controls as “vaping” grows in popularity. The California Department of Public Health released a report saying e-cigarettes emit cancer-causing […]
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Publisher’s note: This is one in a series of stories Lake Tahoe News will be running leading up to the 50th anniversary of South Lake Tahoe on Nov. 30. By Kathryn Reed “The people of Lake Tahoe’s South Shore formally have taken steps to control and preserve the natural beauty of this area. The overwhelming […]
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Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the Jan. 27, 2015, Los Angeles Times. Unvaccinated teenagers have been sent home from school for as long as three weeks. Dozens of babies who may have been exposed to measles have been placed in quarantine. One in four of the more than 73 Californians infected has required hospitalization. […]
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By Mark Anderson, Sacramento Business Journal Placer County officials have backed away from a land-use battle with South Lake Tahoe, but they’re moving ahead with the larger effort aimed at allowing development of a hotel on the north side of the lake for the first time since 1959. The county had planned to pay private owners […]
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By Emily Badger, Washington Post Geof Glass, a doctorate student at Simon Frasier University, makes an interesting point in a blog post that’s been circulating for the last two days among people online fascinated by the economics of parking: The purchases you make at a store surrounded by free customer parking are effectively taxed to […]
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There will be two American Red Cross lifeguard trainings at the South Lake Tahoe pool soon. The purpose is to provide participants with the knowledge and skills to prevent, recognize, and respond to aquatic emergencies. Participants will be trained and certified to provide care for breathing and cardiac emergencies, injuries, and sudden illness until emergency […]
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Expect to see more local and state law enforcement out and about on Sunday as they look for people who are celebrating the Super Bowl intoxicated behind the wheel. There will be 10 roving DUI saturations in El Dorado County. According to federal data, in 2013 there were 867 people killed in alcohol-impaired-driving crashes in California […]
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There is a proposal under consideration by BLM to improve and adopt the existing 9.4 miles of user created trail and add 13.6 miles of new trail to create the Canoe Hill Trail System. The trails east of Sparks, including the popular Zipper Trail, have never been recognized by the BLM as official trails. There […]
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By Kathryn Reed The state didn’t need to take a snow survey to prove that it’s dry and moisture has been scarce. “Unfortunately, today’s manual snow survey makes it likely that California’s drought will run through a fourth consecutive year. DWR managers said heavy precipitation and cooler temperatures in the next three months would be […]
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