By Sandra Chereb, Las Vegas Review-Journal A limited recount of presidential ballots cast in Nevada confirmed the results of the Nov. 8 election and eliminated the possibility of a statewide recount, the secretary of state’s office said Thursday. The partial recount in 92 precincts, requested and paid for by independent candidate Roque “Rocky” De La […]
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By Janie McCauley, AP At the family home in South Lake Tahoe, Carol Haase sent her husband out to the shed to search for just the right pieces of wood. The creative mother of five had begun planning yet another important project in a long list of them for her kids. Son Jerod Haase, in […]
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By Brad Rassler, Outside Outdoor recreation is an economic colossus: its reach is massive, its wealth enormous, and its influence continues to grow as more boots hit the ground. You can see it in Joshua Tree’s crowded campgrounds or in Mount Tam’s trailhead parking lots; in the Appalachian Trail’s thru-hiking numbers or in REI’s record sales. […]
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Students in the music department at Lake Tahoe Community College are putting on a benefit concert Dec. 14 at 7pm in the Duke Theatre to support a fellow rocker dealing with cancer. Students in music teacher Eric Hellberg’s fall quarter rock ensemble classes will take the stage, performing classic rock n’ roll hits, some gospel, […]
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Vail Resorts quarterly earnings report released today was worse than what analysts had predicted, but were not too surprising for the time of year. A slow start to the season is partially being blamed on the warm weather in November. The net loss for the Broomfield, Colo.-based company was $62.6 million for the first fiscal quarter of […]
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By Richard N. Velotta, Las Vegas Review-Journal WASHINGTON — Nevada Rep. Dina Titus has sent a letter to Vice President-elect Mike Pence and the presidential transition team asking it to carefully review the online gaming industry before reaching a conclusion on a letter opposing online gaming sent last month by 10 attorneys general. In a […]
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· In an unusual twist, South Lake Tahoe is not going to recognize outgoing Councilmember JoAnn Conner on what should be her last day in office on Dec. 13. Instead, there will be a special meeting the day before at 1pm to certify the election and honor her for her four years of service. She […]
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By Kathryn Reed Red dominates large segments of a map of Lake Tahoe. This signifies “wildfire ignition risk” zones. These are areas most susceptible for a catastrophic wildfire because of the dense vegetation. The California Tahoe Conservancy on Thursday accepted a $6.8 million grant to treat between 1,200 and 1,800 acres in the wildland urban […]
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To the community, She wasn’t crying, but she wasn’t exactly not crying, either. We were about to get an early season storm, a typical hot-to-cold pattern, and I had been looking out the window waiting on rain to become snow. My wife had gone to the grocery store, and I wanted to know what had […]
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By Christopher Mele, New York Times One of seven books about Islam or the Quran that were recently defaced at a public library in Evanston, Ill. A librarian at the public library in Evanston, Ill., was recently preparing for a program titled “The Quran: Is It a ‘Good Book’?” She gathered books to display for […]
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