Fire restrictions go into effect in the Eldorado National Forest on Aug. 18. Wood and charcoal fires will be restricted to designated recreation sites and other fire related activities will be prohibited until the end of fire season. Gas or propane fires are allowed with a free 2017 California campfire permit. On USFS lands, fire […]
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Squaw Valley Ski Holdings is appealing the decision by CalOSHA that found infractions at the ski resort after the death of ski patroller Joseph Zuiches. The state Occupational Safety and Health Administration this month said it was fining Squaw $11,250 for “failing to correct an identified unsafe working condition by implementing a procedure for protection […]
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By Kathryn Reed “It’s about finding opportunities and doing the work we know needs to be done.” This is how Bob Larsen with the Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board summarized the ongoing efforts to reduce the pollutants reaching Lake Tahoe. Much of that is fine sediment that is washed into the lake, which then […]
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El Dorado Savings Bank’s second quarter profits were $723,944 above the same period a year ago, at $3,607,198. Earnings for the first half of 2017 totaled $6,581,965, compared to $6,465,488 in 2016. “The continued strong profits reflect the stable performance of the loan and investment portfolios,” CEO George L. Cook Jr. said in a statement. […]
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By Larry Weitzman While electric vehicles seem to be all the rage, sales are still dismal with sales being about one-half of 1 percent of the entire automobile market. Pure electric cars are expensive and suffer from limited range and range anxiety. Cars aren’t for pushing, they are for driving. Kia has taken the beautiful […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe City Attorney Tom Watson tendered his resignation Aug. 16, with his last day being at the end of September. Watson told council members he is leaving to become city attorney for Tracy. When he was hired in May 2013 he told Lake Tahoe News the Tahoe position was a […]
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By Nicholas Kristof, New York Times This will make me sound grouchy and misanthropic, but I sometimes wonder if what makes America great isn’t so much its people as its trees and mountains. In contrast to many advanced countries, we have a vast and spectacular publicly owned wilderness, mostly free and available to all. In […]
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By Esmeralda Bermudez, Corina Knoll and Anh Do, Los Angeles Times The backhoe crept into the graveyard as the city lay still. It had come for the 6-foot granite monument with the bronze plaque, a salute to the Confederate Army veterans interred below. Hollywood Forever Cemetery had housed the marker since 1925, but the recent […]
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By Jessica Calefati, CalMatters California’s new system for funding public education has pumped tens of billions of extra dollars into struggling schools, but there’s little evidence yet that the investment is helping the most disadvantaged students. A CalMatters analysis of the biggest districts with the greatest clusters of needy children found limited success with the […]
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Beginning next week, the Pope Baldwin Bike Path near South Lake Tahoe will be subject to traffic control while crews thin trees around the bike path. Flaggers will intermittently close the bike path for up to 30 minutes at a time for public safety during the tree felling operations. This phase of the project will […]
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