By Nicole Raz, Las Vegas Review-Journal At least 18 states are poised to introduce bills this year to regulate sports betting, according to a new report. Of those, the report by Eilers & Krejcik Gaming suggests 12 have a good chance of enacting legislation. “I believe if the U.S. Supreme Court makes a decision that […]
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Artist, poet and naturalist Obi Kaufmann brings his best-selling “California Field Atlas” to the South Lake Tahoe Library on Feb. 27 at 6pm. Lavishly illustrated with hundreds of hand-painted maps and wildlife renderings and based on his decades of walking the backcountry of California, Kaufmann’s “California Field Atlas” is a testimony to the natural world […]
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A Kings Beach man was killed in a head-on collision last weekend near Northstar. California Highway Patrol officers said Christopher Anderson, 35, was going north on Highway 267 on Jan. 13 at 7am when his vehicle was struck head-on. The alpine race coach at Northstar was pronounced dead at the scene. Edgar Delgado, 21, of […]
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“Let’s have a conversation” is being initiated by South Lake Tahoe Mayor Wendy David. Her goal is to host monthly informal gatherings that anyone may join. Joining her will either be another council member or someone relevant to a topic going on in town. For the first conversation, David has invited Mayor Pro Tem Tom […]
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By Ryan Sabalow, Sacramento Bee The millions of trees that died in the Sierra Nevada during California’s five-year drought may have actually helped the state’s water supply once the historic dry spell finally ended, according to a study. Scientists led by UC Merced’s Sierra Nevada Research Institute examined how much water was being absorbed by […]
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By Bruce Grego Milton Friedman, who in 1976 was awarded a Nobel Prize in Economics, once said, if you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in five years there’d be a shortage of sand. Well, in the last 50 years, local government in conjunction with the TRPA, and other regional and […]
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By Foster Klug, AP PYEONGCHANG, South Korea — The cold is back for the Winter Games. After two straight balmy Olympics where some might have wondered if it was even winter, let alone the world’s pre-eminent freeze-dependent sporting event, athletes and visitors alike will finally experience a serious chill in their bones during the games […]
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Area high school and college students are invited to attend a free career workshop at the Truckee Airport on Jan. 18 at 5pm. The career mentoring program, officially known as the Truckee Tahoe Flight Plan, is designed and conducted by Pathways to Aviation, a nonprofit organization seeking to inform, inspire, and engage the aviation’s next […]
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By Regina Garcia Cano, AP Nevada’s largest casinos turned a profit for the second fiscal year in a row and finally broke the revenue record set in 2007 before the recession affected the operators’ books, according to a state report released Friday. The largest casinos in the state reported income of $1.6 billion from total […]
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A Berkeley woman crossing the street in Incline Village on Jan. 12 died after being struck by a vehicle. Roza Mostava, 78, was in a crosswalk crossing Village Boulevard at Lakeshore Boulevard at 5:37pm when she was hit. The driver of the vehicle immediately stopped and rendered aid. It does not appear drugs and/or […]
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