By Julie Brown, Powder I don’t think twice about buying a season pass. It’s a line item in my budget and as important to my happiness as a roof over my head, and unless my friends decide to mass migrate to another mountain, I’m probably going to stick with the resort I’ve skied at my […]
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By Vanessa DiMaggio, Food and Wine Fueling your body during an emergency is very different from your everyday diet. Because you’ll probably expend more energy than you normally would, you should eat high-energy, high-protein foods. And because you’ll have a limited supply, the higher-quality foods you eat—and the less of them—the better. “In a disaster […]
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By Jim Miller, Sacramento Bee Trinity County is the state’s fourth-smallest, and ended last year with an estimated population of 13,628 people. Its residents also filled prescriptions for oxycodone, hydrocodone and other opioids 18,439 times, the highest per capita rate in California. The problem also has a decidedly geographic dimension in California. Besides Trinity, […]
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By Tony Berendsen I’ve been married to a wonderful woman – Jackie — for 45 years this September. She is not the geeky one in the family. I hold that distinction. For our 25th anniversary I booked a Sky and Telescope Astronomy Tour on the Holland America Ryndam to see a total solar eclipse off […]
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By Emily Benson, High Country News As Houston cleans up after Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma barrels through the Caribbean and Florida, this year’s Atlantic hurricane season offers a stark reminder of the power of oceans over weather. But ocean influences aren’t limited to the Atlantic. Last winter, rain and snow drenched California, much of […]
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Damage from last winter has forced the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit to stabilize the Upper Truckee River project near Lake Tahoe Airport. Work began in August on the airport side of the new river channel and will continue on the neighborhood side of the river starting Sept. 11. It should be finished by the […]
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The attorneys representing former South Lake Tahoe resident Patty Olson in her drawn out bankruptcy proceedings want to stop representing her. Darby Law Practices have filed the paperwork to withdraw as legal counsel. That request is scheduled to be heard next month. According to court documents, Olson has retained another attorney. Court documents say, “DLP […]
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By Thomas Moore, Las Vegas Sun Nevada’s Gaming Control Board will soon begin allowing sports books to offer bets on a year’s worth of esports events, the board’s chief of enforcement Karl Bennison said Thursday at a gambling and esports conference at the Westgate. Currently, books can only get permission to offer bets on one […]
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· At the Sept. 12 Lake Tahoe Unified School District board meeting the elected are expected to approve a 2 percent salary increase for Superintendent Jim Tarwater. This brings his annual base salary to $188,917.81, with an additional $3,428 for his master’s and doctorate stipend, for a total of $192,345.81. This is retroactive to Jan. […]
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By Jason Hidalgo, Reno Gazette-Journal A District Court judge denied a motion by the state to dismiss legal action brought against it for the Little Valley Fire. Washoe County District Court Judge Scott Freeman ruled this week to allow the lawsuits against the state of Nevada to proceed. The Little Valley Fire was caused by […]
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