By Kathryn Reed TAHOE CITY – Killing aquatic invasive weeds in Lake Tahoe with ultraviolet C light will be tried for the first time this summer. The California Tahoe Conservancy board on March 16 agreed to spend $260,128 on the pilot project in South Lake Tahoe. The money was awarded to the Tahoe Resource Conservation […]
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By Larry Weitzman El Dorado County has two main priorities. No. 1 is public safety and No. 2 is maintaining the 1,000 or so miles of county roads. Everything else is a distant third. For several recent years, the county would put about $2 million a year from the General Fund to road maintenance. In […]
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By Mitch Smith, New York Times OMAHA — After living more than 40 years along a road plagued by potholes, Jo Anne Amoura was excited to see city crews shred her block of Leavenworth Street into gravel. “I thought, ‘Oh my gosh, this is great. We’re going to get a new street,’” Ms. Amoura recalled. […]
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South Tahoe High School’s girls’ and boys’ swim teams hosted four other schools at home March 14. (The team uses the South Lake Tahoe Recreation Center pool.) The five Division 1 teams participating were – STHS, Fernley High School, Reno High School, Spanish Springs High School and McQueen High School. Although the Vikings held their […]
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· Truckee’s draft Railyard Mixed Use Development Parking Management Plan will be discussed at the March 21 Planning Commission meeting. It starts at 6pm at the airport. · Pequeños Day Care is having an open house March 18 from noon-5pm at its new location, 3336 Sandy Way in South Lake Tahoe. · Nevada Builders Alliance […]
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By Amy Graff, San Francisco Chronicle The depressing scene of boat docks sitting high and dry on wide beaches around Lake Tahoe will likely be a fleeting memory this summer. Winter’s unrelenting storms built up a substantial Sierra snowpack and are expected to fill the lake for the first time in 11 years. Lake Tahoe’s […]
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By Tony Berendsen There hasn’t been a total solar eclipse visible from the contiguous United States since 1979, but on Aug. 21, 2017, from sea to shining sea the long wait will be over, the “Great American eclipse” is coming soon. Many of us have witnessed a partial solar eclipse, fewer have experienced a total […]
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During the next two weeks, Douglas County, Lyon County, Churchill County, Carson City and Reno residents can expect to see additional law enforcement on the roads. Nevada Highway Patrol has joined forces with local agencies throughout the state to concentrate on impaired driving. If you are going to drink, don’t drive is the message. In […]
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The Nevada Department of Transportation has begun installation of new “Welcome to Nevada” signs designed by Nevada art students. The first welcome sign was installed March 15 at the Nevada-California border on Highway 88 south of Minden. Signs will be installed at approximately 25 other border locations statewide over the coming months. Instead of the […]
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By Evan Halper and Sarah D. Wire, Tribune Washington Bureau President Trump’s budget would deliver a painful financial blow to California, with the potential to push a state that has struggled for years to keep its books balanced back into the kind of red ink that consumed it after the housing market collapse a […]
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