By Kathryn Reed While a contract has not been signed, most of the particulars have been worked out to ensure SnowGlobe, the three-day music festival, returns to South Lake Tahoe in December. Lake Tahoe Community College is having a different role this year compared to the past. No longer will buildings on campus be used […]
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By Dan Walters, CalMatters California has been on a tax binge in recent months, enhancing its status—for better or worse—as one of the nation’s highest-taxing states. Last year, California voters approved a big boost in cigarette taxes, from 87 cents a pack to $2.87, and extended for 12 additional years the nation’s highest income-tax rates […]
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Douglas County School District’s board of education wants professional input regarding what do with the shuttered Kingsbury Middle School site. While the district is in the process of getting it reappraised, and that information should be available by the end of the month, selling the property might not be the only option. When the board […]
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By Ryan Lillis, Molly Sullivan And Marjie Lundstrom, Sacramento Bee Wildfires continued to lay siege to huge swaths of Northern California on Wednesday, forcing the evacuations of thousands from iconic Wine Country towns like Calistoga and destroying thousands of homes and businesses in what Gov. Jerry Brown said was one of the worst fire events […]
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By Rebecca Ash, UCLA California has taken a wild weather ride over the past two years: A historic drought finally came to an end, and the winter of 2016–17 was the wettest winter in decades. Meanwhile, recent studies have projected that climate change will turn up the heat by up to 10 degrees in the […]
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Jeffrey Scott Harkins, age 63, passed away in his Los Osos home on Sept. 30, 2017. Jeff grew up a surfer in Manhattan Beach in Southern California and graduated from Aviation High School in 1971. At 18 years old, he was honored as the youngest business owner in Manhattan Beach partnering in a motorsports company. […]
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To the community, As an all-volunteer, nonprofit organization, Bread & Broth greatly values the many partnerships that have developed over the 28 years that it was been feeding the needy in the Lake Tahoe South Shore community. These partnerships involve volunteering, donating food and funds and sponsoring Monday Adopt A Day of Nourishment dinners. Beginning […]
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By ESPN Y.A. Tittle, the Hall of Fame quarterback and 1963 NFL MVP, has died. He was 90. His family confirmed to LSU, where Tittle starred in college, that he died Sunday night at Stanford Hospital near his home in Atherton. Known as “The Bald Eagle” as much for his sturdy leadership as his prematurely […]
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Publisher’s note: The smoke blowing into the Lake Tahoe Basin and Truckee on Oct. 11 is from the Wine Country fires. By Stuart Leavenworth, Sacramento Bee A cascade of extreme weather events fed Northern California’s wildfires that exploded Sunday: Unusually high winds blew flames through unusually dense and dry vegetation, which sprang up following last […]
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Douglas County Sheriff’s Office has received a $65,000 grant from the Nevada Department of Public Safety, Office of Traffic Safety to participate in joining forces traffic safety campaigns during the coming year. This is a multi-jurisdictional statewide effort to increase safety on Nevada’s roads by increasing enforcement and awareness of traffic laws. The goal is […]
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