Placer County Board of Supervisors this week approved two agreements to help advance the planned Resort Triangle Trail Network. The now halfway complete Resort Triangle will consist of a continuous 62-miles of trails running from downtown Truckee to Northstar, then to Kings Beach. From there the trail will continue to Tahoe City before returning to […]
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· The South Lake Tahoe Optimist Club is having its semi-annual pancake breakfast on Sept. 16 from 8-11am at South Tahoe High School near the tennis courts. For $5, people get eggs, sausage, pancake, juice and coffee. Money goes toward youth programs in the community. · Phyllis Keller and Wayne Woolway will give insights on […]
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By Michelle Robertson, San Francisco Chronicle At 24 years old, Ben Hunter is a homeowner, but a sizable portion of his paycheck goes to rent for a room in an 11-person house in San Francisco. That’s because the home he owns is located about 3,000 miles east, in Atlantic City, N.J. About 35 percent of […]
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Updated 10:35am: There was yet another power outage on the South Shore. There we 3,704 Liberty Utilities customers with no electricity on Friday morning. A locked out circuit at the Meyers substation is the problem. Crews don’t know what caused the problem Sept. 8. There was out for a couple hours. — Lake Tahoe News […]
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How does the 2017 yellow jacket population compare to previous years? Will a changing climate mean more regular population increases of these stinging things? Lynn Kimsey from the UC Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology will give an overview of yellow jacket diversity and biology, and how to distinguish them from other wasps. Kimsey will […]
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By Kathryn Reed Zephyr Cove Tennis Club will be hosting its first national tournament next week – the USTA National Husband Wife Hard Court Championships. Each year there are four main husband-wife events played on a different surface: hardcourt, grass, clay and indoors. And like the pros, if a couple were to win them all, […]
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By Dan Walters, CalMatters California’s Democratic state government is exerting “resistance” to the Republican federal government on issues such as immigration and climate change. California insists, under the doctrine of “states’ rights,” that President Donald Trump and a Republican Congress should not interfere with state policies on those and other issues that reflect Californians’ views. […]
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By Mary Duenwald, Bloomberg Many health experts think the most dangerous thing most of us do every day is sit down. Like smoking, they believe, prolonged sitting is deleterious, and not something that can be balanced out by vigorous exercise when sitting time is done. Dozens of studies have drawn connections between sitting too long […]
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Now through Sept. 15 Douglas County sheriff’s deputies and Nevada Highway Patrol officers are increasing efforts to keep impaired drivers and riders of the streets. Officers say impaired driving is consistently the most common cause of motor vehicle crashes resulting in injuries and deaths in Nevada. There is someone injured in a car accident every […]
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By Associated Press Vast stands of dead timber in the Western U.S. have forced firefighters to shift tactics, trying to stay out of the shadow of lifeless, unstable trees that could come crashing down with deadly force. About 6.3 billion dead trees are still standing in 11 Western states, up from 5.8 billion five years […]
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