Safety beyond the riders is a mantra of Amgen bike officials this year. On the back of the volunteers’ T-shirts it says, “If you see something, say something.” This is the first year the Tour of California has taken to promoting this message. Volunteers at all the stages will be wearing shirts that have this […]
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By Kat Kerlin, UC Davis News Service To outer space and the deep ocean, add “beneath the ice” to the list of rarely charted frontiers of science exploration. There have been very few expeditions where robots dived beneath polar ice shelves to characterize and measure them. UC Davis engineering Professor Alexander Forrest recently returned from […]
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By Colin Lygren, KOLO-TV Saving lives during a fire: a new technology is helping fire captains see through the smoke and reach victims faster in South Lake Tahoe. “Basically it provides a heat signature so we are able to see potentially a person, a body, heat from a fire behind a wall, that we normally […]
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The Truckee Ranger District plans to burn 80-120 acres of understory vegetation near Stampede Reservoir today. Crews will be monitoring weather and fuel conditions throughout Friday. Winds are projected to be out of the southwest which should blow smoke away from communities. The district said there are only a handful of days when weather, smoke dispersion and […]
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Get ready to clean out your yard, attic or garage. Clean Tahoe’s annual Community Cleanup Day (aka $5 Dump Day) will be June 3 from 8am-4pm. It’s the one day of the year El Dorado County residents may bring unwanted items to the South Tahoe Refuse transfer station at huge discounts. Pricing details: $5/vehicle load […]
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By Katie O’Reilly, Sierra Noise pollution is typically considered an urban problem. However, new research shows that the invisible threat found in the din of human activity (also known as anthropogenic sound) is increasingly taking its toll on the natural world. A first-of-its-kind study, released last week from scientists at Colorado State University and the […]
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By Clint Purvance Recently, the House of Representatives narrowly passed the American Health Care Act (H.R. 1628). The bill now resides in the Senate for determination and possible modification. Though we do not know if the senators will pass the American Health Care Act, Barton Health is committed to providing consistently exceptional care for our […]
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By Craig Giammona, Bloomberg The American grocery store has so far been mostly immune to the ravages of online shopping and the all around apocalyptic outlook facing the nation’s retailers. But a war is coming to the staid supermarket, and that could mean more consolidation, bankruptcies, and falling prices. An invasion is getting under way. Lidl, a German […]
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· South Tahoe High School Boosters is hosting a “shred it” event at the American Legion parking lot on May 19 from noon-4pm. It is $10 per box to shred. Half of the proceeds go to the boosters. · Planning and problem solving for the real world is the topic of the Lake Tahoe South […]
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By Rob Miech, Las Vegas Sun The recent spate of Arkansas executions, which included two on the same gurney, 3 1/2 hours apart — the first time in almost 17 years that any state has executed two inmates on the same day — has returned the death penalty to the forefront of national consciousness. Waves […]
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