A fire started Tuesday afternoon two miles west of Ice House and White Meadows roads in the Eldorado National Forest. The Ice Fire is separate from the Table Fire that has been burning for more than a month. The newer fire has burned 25 acres. While voluntary evacuations were initially called for, they have since […]
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By Paige St. John, Dakota Smith, Hailey Branson-Potts and Joy Resmovits, Los Angeles Times The distress calls crackled over the Napa County sheriff’s dispatch radio in a rapid staccato late Sunday as flames sped toward residents on Atlas Peak Road. “Parents trapped in garage,” an officer called in to the central dispatcher. Then: “The […]
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By Kathryn Reed Combined, Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows ski resorts are getting $4 million worth of safety improvements that will be used starting this season. All are centered on avalanche control. A variety of tools have been added. For the first time a helicopter will be enlisted. The resort is leasing an ASTAR AS-350B3 […]
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By Miles Orvell In the United States, Main Street has always been two things—a place and an idea. As both, Main Street has embodied the contradictions of the country itself. It is the self-consciousness of the idea of Main Street – from its origins in a Nathaniel Hawthorne sketch of New England, to Walt Disney’s […]
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By Paul Davidson, USA Today No degree? No experience? No problem. With employers struggling to find workers in an ever-tightening labor market, many are hiring job candidates for both white- and blue-collar jobs who lack skills or experience deemed essential just a few years ago. “Companies aren’t going for 100 percent of the job description,” says […]
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Douglas County Lake Tahoe Sewer Authority will meet for the first time on Oct. 11. One of the board’s first tasks will be to appoint a fifth member, who is supposed to represent the Stateline business community. The four sitting members are county Commissioner Nancy McDermid, Round Hill General Improvement District trustee Wesley Rice, Kingsbury […]
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By Sean Whaley and Ben Botkin, Las Vegas Review-Journal Just as the Sandy Hook school shooting prompted efforts to regulate gun policies in Nevada in 2013, the mass shooting in Las Vegas on Oct. 1 will likely result in a new push when the Legislature convenes in 2019. As one lawmaker described it, the gun […]
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Free transit is being provided to Lake Tahoe Community College students this year in a pilot program with Tahoe Transportation District. The college is providing $36,000 to “mitigate administrative, operational, and capital costs associated with this pilot program.” LTCC has heard from students that one of the barriers to attending is being able to get […]
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By Marianne M. Porter, Moonshine Ink Emilio Vaca, 38, could have easily ended up in Modesto or Los Angeles, or even Winnemucca, where he was raised after being born in Reno. After high school, he attended Modesto Junior College where he graduated in 2002, and in 2005 he earned a degree from Sierra Nevada College […]
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Traffic was backed up near Cave Rock on Tuesday because of a vehicle collision. A truck and Tahoe Transportation District bus were in an accident on Highway 50 the morning of Oct. 10. According to the Nevada Highway Patrol, two people received non-life threatening injuries. TTD did not respond to an inquiry. It’s not known […]
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