More than 103 million Americans—the most on record—are expected to travel for the year-end holidays, according to AAA. This represents a 1.5 percent increase, or 1.5 million more people traveling, compared with last year. This comes despite one fewer travel day this holiday season. The year-end holiday travel period is defined as Dec. 23 to […]
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By Kathryn Reed TRUCKEE – It looks like Jim Larmore is playing a sophisticated video game on his phone. But this is no game. As director of mountain operations at Northstar Larmore oversees the entire snowmaking operation. He is essentially Father Nature. When Mother Nature doesn’t deliver snow, Larmore and his gang do. Many of […]
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By Larry Weitzman At the Dec. 13 El Dorado County Board of Supervisors meeting, Item 32 was on the calendar for the receiving and filing of 11 five-year studies required for 11 special districts that collect fees pursuant to Government Code Sections 66000 to 66025, otherwise known as the Mitigation Fee Act. As has been […]
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By Erin Ross, NPR Homeopathy has been around since the 1700s, but despite having devoted followers, there is no scientific evidence that it works. Soon, packages for homeopathic products might say just that. Last month, the Federal Trade Commission released an enforcement policy statement about labeling for over-the-counter homeopathic products. Homeopathic treatments have increasingly been […]
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By Associated Press State officials say Nevada’s public high school graduation rate is up almost 3 percentage points from the previous year. The Nevada Department of Education says the graduation rate for the class of 2016 is 73.6 percent. That’s up from 70.8 percent in 2015. More than 1,000 more Nevada students graduated high school […]
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By Elisabeth Vincentelli, CNN For a long time, women’s skis suffered from a phenomenon known as “pink it and shrink it”: take a men’s model, make it shorter (and softer) and give it a pastel top sheet. Thankfully we’ve come a long way since. The offerings have improved and last season the best-selling ski in […]
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By Sandra Chereb, Las Vegas Review-Journal CARSON CITY — Nevada is one of five states that were chosen to work with the Vera Institute of Justice on ways to reduce the use of solitary confinement in the state prison system, the Department of Corrections said Tuesday. “With Vera’s assistance, Nevada will be better-equipped to both […]
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The Craig Empowerment Center, an 800-square-foot addition to the CR Johnson Healing Center in Truckee, opened this week. The center not only adds space and top-of-the-line training equipment, but also provides additional training resources from Craig’s specialized therapy staff. The CR Johnson Healing Center is a training facility that provides resources for athletes in […]
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It’s going to cost Liberty Utilities customers more to keep the lights on and heat their homes and offices starting Jan. 1. Average residential and small commercial customers will see an increase of less than 1 percent, while average medium and large commercial customers will see increases of approximately 16 percent and 17 percent, respectively. […]
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Starting Jan. 9 Lake Tahoe Environmental Science Magnet School will begin taking names for the fall 2017 line-up of kindergartners. Parents of students who will turn 5 on or before Sept. 1, 2017, may fill out a “Kindergarten Enrollment Request Form” at the school office or online. This a lottery. Forms are due at the end of March. The […]
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