By Joe Mathews California is finally embracing its rivers. It may be a choking embrace. We Californians have long celebrated our coastal splendor and beautiful mountains. But our rivers were seen as mere plumbing for our hydration convenience. Now California’s communities, seeking space for environmental restoration and recreation (and some desperately needed housing), are […]
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By Erin Kelly, USA Today WASHINGTON — In a defeat for privacy advocates, Senate leaders rebuffed a last-ditch effort by a bipartisan group of senators to allow a vote to block a new rule that allows federal agents armed with a single search warrant to hack millions of Americans’ computers or smartphones at once. That rule took effect Thursday. […]
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By USSA LAKE LOUISE, Canada – The American women stacked three in the top 15 on the second day of downhill in Lake Louise, led by Laurenne Ross (Bend, Ore.) in seventh place. Friday’s top American Stacey Cook (Mammoth Lakes) was 11th and Mikaela Shiffrin (Eagle-Vail, Colo.), in only her second Audi FIS Ski World Cup […]
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By Michael R. Blood, AP LOS ANGELES — California Treasurer John Chiang on Friday appealed to President-elect Donald Trump for guidance on how the state’s projected $7 billion marijuana industry can participate in the nation’s banking system while pot remains illegal under U.S. law. California voters last month approved Proposition 64, which legalized the recreational […]
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Laurie Nelson Weatherston died Oct. 10, 2016, from complications with surgery at UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento. She was 64. Laurie was born June 11, 1952. She grew up in the Los Angeles area. After successfully battling cancer in her early 20s, she completed her studies at Sonoma State University, earning her bachelor’s in […]
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· The South Lake Tahoe pool will be closed starting next week from 12:45-2pm Mondays-Thursdays for the fourth-grade learn to swim program. · Brenda Knox, financial advisor with Waddell & Reed, and Heather Satin, attorney and principal of Satin Legal, are hosting a free Q&A session regarding estate planning for entrepreneurs on Dec. 6 from […]
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The Tahoe Douglas Fire Protection District, California Tahoe Conservancy and the U.S. Forest Service will continue prescribed fire operations next week as conditions allow. Operations may take place in multiple locations around Lake Tahoe including Glenbrook, Cave Rock, Round Hill, Lower Kingsbury Grade, South Lake Tahoe, Tahoe Paradise and Meyers. To view a map with […]
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By Jay Lund, KQED California is a big, diverse place. California probably will experience droughts this year of different types in different places, and no drought at all in some places, simultaneously. Even if conditions this year are very wet, with flooding, parts of California will have drought issues. (This is what makes California a great place […]
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California Senate President Pro Tem Kevin de León will be the keynote speaker at Operation Sierra Storm Meteorologist Conference in January. He will discuss California’s role as an international leader in carbon emission reductions and national implications longterm economic, environmental and cultural impacts; impacts a new president will have on policy, environmental initiatives and funding. Richard Somerville, […]
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This is our 22nd year for the MontBleu Holiday Extravaganza. The annual show at the Stateline casinos started in 1995. The show consists of third-, fifth-, sixth-, eighth-, ninth-, 10th-, 11th-, 12th-grade choirs, as well as a faculty-parent choir. Included is the award winning Blue Ribbon Classical Choir. The finale includes more than 200 singers. […]
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