Delano is a wild and crazy 1-year-old, 8-pound white and apricot Poodle and Terrier mix. He can jump really high, likes to be underfoot and needs a lot of exercise. He seems to be crate trained, if not housebroken. He loves other dogs and is fine with kids (but will jump on them and is […]
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Publisher’s note: Lake Tahoe News asked candidates for South Lake Tahoe City Council, Lake Tahoe Community College, Lake Tahoe Unified School District, Douglas County School District, South Tahoe Public Utility District and Lake Valley Fire Protection District a series of questions. We are running the responses in the order received. All profiles may be found […]
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By Graham Averill, Outside Search “weather” in the App Store and you’ll be bombarded with an endless scroll of options—from radar imagery good enough for meteorologists to an app that shows you a different picture of a kitten every time you check the weather. Seriously. Weather kittens. But if you’re using your smartphone to plan an […]
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By Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle La Niña may not happen after all. Federal climate scientists on Thursday dialed back their forecast for the influential weather pattern that is sometimes associated with dry years in parts of the Americas, including California — where another winter of scant rain could wreak havoc on the drought-plagued state. […]
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By Alexandra Spychalsky, Moonshine Ink Getting anywhere around the lake can be a daunting task on summer weekends. When you’re moving so slowly in a car that cyclists are whizzing by you, all you can do is crank up the radio and settle in for a long ride. As a growing and changing population in […]
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The El Dorado County Health and Human Services Agency, Public Health Nursing will be conducting flu vaccination clinics from Sept. 28 through mid-November for $10 per vaccine. No one will be denied service due to inability to pay. It is recommended people 6 months and older get the shot. Cash or checks are accepted. Parents should bring […]
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By Tracy Rucinski, Reuters The mediator trying to resolve the $18 billion bankruptcy of Caesars Entertainment Operating Co Inc (CEOC) abruptly stepped down on Friday, according to a court filing, adding another twist to the complex case. CEOC filed for bankruptcy in January 2015 amid creditor accusations that its parent Caesars Entertainment Corp. and private […]
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By Associated Press State officials say the wild horse population is too large to be sustained by the rangeland on which the horses live. The Elko Daily Free Press reports that at a public hearing with the National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board, state veterinarian JJ Goicoechea said the horse population is in a […]
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By Reno Gazette-Journal Truckee High School senior Bella Bono has been volunteering for the Humane Society of Truckee-Tahoe since she was 10, but this year she had an idea – fund and install a solar array for the animal shelter. Bono started planning the solar installation in April, working with her father, Joe Bono, to […]
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By Tom Lotshaw In the late 1990s, Tahoe yellow cress, a small flowering plant that grows only on the sandy shores and creek mouths of Lake Tahoe, was teetering on the brink of extinction. Surveys done in 1996 found the plant gone from all of the beaches it had once occupied in Nevada and growing […]
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