By Joe Mathews If you thought California’s famously bitter water wars were hard-fought, just wait until you see our water data wars. Digital tools have expanded the ability of governments, companies and nonprofits to measure the uses of California water, and build more water-efficient products, boost water conservation, and replace expensive and inefficient infrastructure. But […]
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By Kathryn Reed While the majority of voters said yes to Measure C, that was not enough support for the South Lake Tahoe roads measure to pass. The sales tax initiative required two-thirds of the voters to cast yes ballots. With all the votes counted on Nov. 7, El Dorado County Elections Department is reporting […]
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By Tim Craig, Washington Post Even living on the West Coast, Marion Townsend decided to act as floods ravaged Texas and hurricanes pounded the Caribbean in recent weeks. Her Sacramento neighborhood slopes downward from a levee that separates it from the American River, in an area that officials concede never should have been settled but […]
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El Dorado County District Attorney’s Office has received a $195,677 grant from the California Office of Traffic Safety to target repeat DUI offenders. The grant to the will fund a vertical prosecution team that will work cases from arrest through conviction and sentencing. In 2014 there were 13 deaths and 45 serious injuries as a […]
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By Kathryn Reed Fourteen hundred. That’s the maximum number of vacation home rentals South Lake Tahoe will allow. After another meeting of the City Council on Nov. 7 where short-term rentals dominated the discussion, it’s possible the electeds might let the ink dry on the latest ordinance before revising it yet again. But no promises […]
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By Ben Botkin, Las Vegas Review-Journal State spending on inmate health care in Nevada is among the lowest in the U.S., according to a national Pew study released recently. The study also ranks the state’s rate of health care staffing as the fourth-lowest out of 43 states surveyed. But the study highlighted the Nevada Department […]
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“For Them, By Us” is the first published collection of writing from the Veterans’ Voices writing workshops, a program of El Dorado Arts Council. This workshop series established in 2014 provides a setting for vets to explore the creative process through writing on any subject, in any form – fiction, memoir, poetry, drama. Workshop participants […]
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South Lake Tahoe’s Boy Scout Troop 594 is partnering with American Legion Post 795 for the 2017 Scouting for Food Collection. People are asked to bring food items to the American Legion at 2748 Lake Tahoe Blvd., South Lake Tahoe on Nov. 11 between 10-11am. This collection will be just before the annual Veterans Day […]
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· Zawadisha’s Holiday Bazaar is Dec. 3 from 10am-3pm at the Landing Resort in South Lake Tahoe. · Mount Rose Ski Resort is officially open for the season. Boreal opens Nov. 8. · Barton Health’s annual Festival of Trees and Lights is Nov. 30-Dec. 3 at MontBleu in Stateline. · Veterans and active-duty military may […]
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By Don Jenkins, Capital Press Snowpacks in California, Oregon, Idaho and Washington are expected be much smaller by mid-century if greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, according to federal projections released Friday. The Fourth National Climate Assessment, completed once every four years, asserts that the mild winter of 2014-15 may have foreshadowed the future. “As […]
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