By Jeremy B. White, Sacramento Bee By the time Sharie Lesniak finished her errand at the bank, the dog she had noticed waiting in a car on her way in had started panting and showing signs of distress. So Lesniak called 911. Before the authorities arrived to free the animal, the owners showed up. They […]
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By Amy Beth Hanson, AP As the National Park Service kicks off a centennial summer expected to draw record crowds, the agency is seriously considering caps on how many people pass through some of the country’s most iconic landscapes and historical sites each day. Park managers have begun looking at whether, when and how best […]
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· El Dorado Winery Association is celebrating the repeal of Prohibition with the inaugural Blind Barrel wine event on June 25 from 6-10pm at Boeger winery. Purchase tickets online. · Volunteers are needed for the North Lake Tahoe business walk in June. Sign up online. · The 11th annual Tahoe City Wine Walk is June […]
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Caltrans is scheduled to install memorial highway signs to honor longtime El Dorado County resident and rancher Gene Chappie in recognition of his four decades of service representing the citizens of the county and state. The Eugene “Gene” Chappie Memorial Highway signs will be installed along Highway 193 in Cool the week of June 13. There […]
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By Wayne Parry, AP Internet gambling has tremendous growth potential in the United States as ever-greater percentages of the public use smartphones, participants in a major gambling conference said Wednesday. At the East Coast Gaming Congress and iGaming Institute in Atlantic City, casino and online gambling executives said the online gambling market has shown encouraging […]
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Californians can help protect urban and wildland trees this summer by buying firewood local to where they will be using it and not moving it from one place to another, according to officials. “Time and time again we see invasive species spread long distances as a result of firewood movement. This is something we can […]
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Kara is an 18-month old German shepherd-border collie mix who is very skinny right now. She is a very sweet dog with many shepherd traits, including that she is very smart, but she has had little training and will do best with some classes. She is good with dogs, cats and kids. Kara has beautiful […]
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By Kathryn Reed CARSON CITY – Rugged, desolate, colorful, stark, verdant, snow capped. Clear Creek Trail has it all. Sagebrush is everywhere at the start, then it starts to peter out as the trail keeps going west into the mountains. The pines bring welcome shade. But they are never as thick and tall as hiking […]
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By Andy Wirth As the leader of a major destination mountain resort in North America, thankfully located in the Reno/Tahoe area, I am deeply concerned about the risk that climate change poses to our industry, and our entire region’s economy. Climate change has already begun to reveal itself as persistent drought in the Sierra Nevada, lower snowpack, increased […]
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By Jackie Calmes, New York Times SAVANNAH, Ga. — A few years back, the heavy-equipment manufacturer JCB held a job fair in the glass foyer of its sprawling headquarters near here, but when a throng of prospective employees learned the next step would be drug testing, an alarming thing happened: About half of them left. […]
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