By Kathryn Reed Finding ways to improve the South Shore cycling scene is not a difficult endeavor. The advisory committee to the South Lake Tahoe Recreation Facilities Joint Powers Authority recently outlined its goals for this summer through 2019. Snow removal of bike trails expects to be an ongoing project. Cyclists and pedestrians are regularly […]
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By Juan William Chávez The plight of public housing projects conceived with the best of intentions and then failing horribly is by now well-known in communities across America. Less known—and still unfolding—is the story of what happens next, both to the people who lived there and the physical spaces those projects inhabited. As an artist […]
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A Colorado man has been identified as the suspect who was killed last week by a Placer County sheriff’s deputy after he held a hostage at gunpoint. Jose Gonzales Lera, 27, of Lakewood, Colo., was killed Feb. 3 near Squaw Valley. He led deputies and California Highway Patrol officers on a chase on the North […]
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By Julie Ann Formoso, Las Vegas Sun Seventy-nine cents to the dollar. You’ve probably heard that statistic on the gender pay gap, a longtime wedge issue and soapbox topic for politicians, feminists and celebrities. Some say the gap — a simple Census Bureau ratio of the difference in median earnings — is a myth, or […]
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By Emma Marris, High Country News Night is falling in the Wood River Valley, a broad, flat expanse of southern Oregon, just south of Crater Lake National Park. John Stephenson, a gray-haired, lantern-jawed U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist, is building a campfire on this chilly late October evening. He is here to be […]
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· South Lake Tahoe’s roller derby team the Tahoe Derby Dames has disbanded. · Tahoe Environmental Research Center in Incline Village is hosting a free science expo March 15 from 4-6pm for ages 6-12. This year’s theme is Earth & Space Science. Challenger Planetarium shows require an RSVP. · Free sand bags are […]
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El Dorado County has created a feature on its website to monitor road, park and trail status. The map can be found on the county’s main website through a button located on the right side of the page. The map will show the status of roads, parks, and trails through sign icons. By clicking on the […]
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By Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazette-Journal Federal law enforcement agents who combat illegal dumping, conduct wildland fire investigations and eradicate environmentally damaging illicit marijuana growing operations would lose their jobs under a proposal by seven western lawmakers. A bill by Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, seeks to eliminate the law enforcement branches of the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management. […]
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Alpenglow Sports’ fourth and final installment of the 11th annual Winter Film Series will be Feb. 23 at 7pm at Squaw Valley’s Olympic Village Lodge. Adrian Ballinger and Cory Richards will present Everest No Filter: Success and Failure Climbing Without Oxygen to the Roof of the World. In May 2016, Ballinger and Richards embarked on […]
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By Robin Opsahl, Sacramento Bee Dealing with winter in the Sierra Nevada isn’t easy, but a new exhibit at the California State Railroad Museum shows visitors how the railroads have kept trains moving year-round. “Clearing the Way,” which is on display through March, features a 251,000-pound rotary snowplow – a trainlike machine with a large […]
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