A section of Highway 89 from Squaw Valley to Truckee will be getting a new surface with grinding and paving work beginning Sunday night. Motorists can expect delays of up to 20 minutes when the work starts tonight and goes around the clock until noon Friday. All the work is expected to be complete by […]
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By Katelyn Stark, KTXL-TV Bears have been ransacking and ripping apart cars recently at a South Shore trailhead, according to the U.S. Forest Service. Photographs posted by Desolation Wilderness volunteer ranger Charlie McCarthy show the backseat windows of three cars bent and torn from their frames. One car’s interior appears to have been mauled, large […]
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By Kevin Fagan and Alison Graham, San Francisco Chronicle California housing costs are spiraling so high that they are pushing the state’s homelessness crisis into places it’s never been before — sparsely populated rural counties. A Chronicle analysis of biennial homeless counts taken early this year across California shows the sharpest increases occurred not in […]
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· Placer County Executive Officer David Boesch is resigning effective the end of the year. · Washoe County Sheriff’s Department’s community picnic is Sept. 16, 10am-2pm at Aspen Grove/Village Green in Incline Village. Learn about SWAT, K9s, RAVEN helicopter, Marine 9 boat, Nevada Highway Patrol, NLTFPD fire trucks, child fingerprinting, and more. The free barbecue […]
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Teens are invited to the Teen Advisory Board meetings at the Douglas County Public Library. The meetings will be at the Minden branch on the third Wednesday of each month at 3pm starting Sept. 20. There will be free pizza and soda. Teens can get involved with fun library events and help plan future library […]
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To the community, The South Lake Tahoe Library just wrapped up our Summer Reading Challenge, which encouraged children, teens, and adults to read all summer long. Over 300 patrons registered, logging a total of 3,990 books, and earning a total of 1,055 prizes. We would like to thank the many businesses and organizations that donated […]
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By Yvonne Gonzalez, Las Vegas Sun Representatives in Congress are expected to take up a nuclear waste policy bill this fall that deals with issues tied to the Yucca Mountain project. House Energy and Commerce Committee staffer Andy Zach was in Las Vegas on Thursday to present the congressional outlook on nuclear waste policy and […]
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For one week Highway 50 near Cave Rock will be reduced to one lane starting Sept. 11. The Nevada Department of Transportation will be removing the wire mesh placed over the Cave Rock rockface. “The wire mesh was placed over the rockface approximately three years ago as a temporary measure to help capture rockfall before […]
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By Kathryn Reed It’s the time of year when anyone growing zucchini wonders if it’s OK just to turn the rest into compost. It’s when they start getting bigger on the vine because you just don’t want to pick another one. Now is the time to find those zucchini-growing friends and make the following recipe. […]
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By Kathryn Reed “How can I support you to be here tomorrow?” That one sentence could make someone realize they have a reason to live. Listening, being there – those are two of the more powerful antidotes to death by suicide. So often when someone wants to end it all they believe they are a […]
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