Tahoe Production House is looking for male and female hosts for instructional videos. Applicants should be between late 20s and early 40s and Latina/Latino. This is a paid position. For more details, click here.
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By Conor Dougherty, New York Times Russel Lee and his wife spent the past few years going online to do the depressing math of how much less housing costs pretty much everywhere that isn’t California. They looked at Idaho, Arizona, North Carolina and Kentucky, but Lee, who was born in San Francisco and has lived […]
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Placer County has created a committee to provide input into how the lodging taxes collected at Lake Tahoe should be used. Until now the North Lake Tahoe Resort Association filled that role. But the county wanted a broader voice because not everyone is a member of the NLTRA. The Capital Projects Advisory Committee will be […]
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To the community, For the fifth year, the Lake Tahoe Visitors Authority and South Tahoe Refuse & Recycling teamed up to benefit Christmas Cheer All Year with a “drive and drop” at the LTVA’s California Visitors Center and curbside collection on regular pick-up days. Once again we were overwhelmed by the generosity of our South […]
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· Whittell High School’s National Honor Society will be wrapping gifts at the Round Hill Post Office on Dec. 16 from 10am-2pm. Donations will go toward the spring semester service project. · According to the California Craft Brewers Association, there are now 900 breweries in the state – there were 300 in 2012; 90 percent of […]
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By Benjy Egel, Sacramento Bee A Placerville resident and El Dorado High School graduate serving in the Army was killed last week in South Korea. Sgt. Eric Schenck, 33, was a non-commissioned officer stationed with the 35th Air Defense Artillery Brigade at Suwon Air Base. On Dec. 7, Schenck was returning from a field training […]
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Publisher’s note: This is the first of two stories about California’s tree mortality and how biomass is one solution to the problem. By Susan Wood As California experiences what may be its worst wildfire year on record, a multi-agency working group has sparked new ways for the state to see the forest through the trees […]
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Dear Santa, I know most letters you get are from kids. So let me start by saying there is no toy that I need. But there is something I want for Christmas—not for myself but for my state. What does California really need? We’re a relatively rich place with nearly 40 million residents, which you […]
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By Julie Cart, CalMatters As Gov. Jerry Brown was making his way through Europe this fall, striking an evangelical tone about the global peril represented by climate change, California’s Air Resources Board released good news about emissions reported by companies covered under the state’s cap-and-trade system. Its report showed greenhouse gas emissions reduced by almost […]
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By Kristen Edwards, KRNV-TV The Environmental Protection Agency added the Anaconda Mine in Nevada to a list of Superfund sites that require immediate action. The Anaconda Mine site has groundwater contamination, waste rock areas, and contaminated process areas. “Getting toxic land sites cleaned up and revitalized is of the utmost importance to the communities across […]
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