Nine wild animals have tested positive for rabies in El Dorado County this year. The rabid animals include one fox, one bat and seven skunks. While none have been located in the Tahoe basin, that isn’t always the case. This year the rabid animals have been in Placerville, Pollock Pine, Diamond Springs, Somerset and El […]
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By Dan Walters, Sacramento Bee California has an immense shortage of housing, and every day it gets worse because we’re not building enough to keep up with even a modest level of population growth. The shortage has driven housing costs through the roof, especially for working-class and poor families, and is atop the list of […]
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By Kathryn Reed Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump spent the better part of Friday in Nevada, with Tahoe being part of his itinerary. He landed at Lake Tahoe Airport at 6:50pm after being in Las Vegas. This was nearly an hour after a private fundraiser started in his honor at Harrah’s Lake Tahoe. His trek […]
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By Matt Levin, CalMatters Where in California has the gap between rich and poor grown most since the Great Recession? The Bay Area, home of your Zuckerbergs and Steyers and some of the most expensive ZIP codes in the country, seems like a logical answer. Over the past decade, what other part of California has minted […]
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By Alexa Renee, KXTV If a major earthquake affected the region, would you be prepared? Most people wouldn’t be ready, according to Graham Kent, who is the director of the Nevada Seismological Laboratory– as well as a professor in the Department of Geological Sciences and Engineering at UNR. At least 120 people were killed and […]
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By Jill Tucker, San Francisco Chronicle While a new state law requires children to be vaccinated to attend public or private school, thousands of California students are filing into classrooms this month without the required immunizations. In fact, it will be years before the law that Gov. Jerry Brown signed last year, in the aftermath […]
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By Seth A. Richardson, Reno Gazette-Journal Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump doesn’t have a lot of clout in Nevada’s political circles. He didn’t gain any major endorsements during the caucus and has raised only a paltry sum in the state compared to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, but he has found a friend: Nevada Republican […]
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Publisher’s note: The following letters are from 10-year-old South Lake Tahoe resident Rosie Friedrich and her father, John, to President Obama. Dear President Obama, We’re excited for your visit to Lake Tahoe next week. I was one of your elected 2008 national convention delegates from California, and have been a strong supporter ever since. During […]
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By Tony Berendsen Many years ago while visiting the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco I went on a docent tour of modern abstract paintings. There was one giant wall sized painting dedicated to a single room. It was blue, that’s all, just a blue wall. I had no idea of how to appreciate […]
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South Lake Tahoe needs people to take a survey in order to retain its Bicycle Friendly Community designation. During this certification process the League of American Bicyclists reviews all bicycle related information submitted to them, which includes how many miles of bike paths/lanes are in South Lake Tahoe, what type of bike infrastructure improvements have been […]
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