By Daniel Rothberg, Las Vegas Sun State leaders and regulators explored Friday whether Nevada could allow wagering on e-sports, a growing industry of video game competitions that attracts millennials and is expected to bring in $1.9 billion by 2018. As many groups push for a larger e-sports presence in Nevada, officials must determine whether spectators can […]
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Lake Valley Fire Protection District and the U.S. Forest Service may conduct prescribed fire operations beginning May 16, weather permitting. Operations on the South Shore may take place northeast of the Lake Tahoe Airport near Barbara Avenue, off Lake Tahoe Boulevard and Sawmill Road, off Panther Lane near the west end of Gardner Mountain and […]
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The California immunization law that went into effect Jan. 1 will effect children for the 2016-17 school year. The law eliminates exemptions based on personal beliefs, including religious beliefs, for the vaccines that are currently required for entry into child care or school, kindergarten through grade 12. Personal belief exemptions on file for a child […]
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Truckee Day is a townwide street clean up and civic pride day. The 13th annual event is June 4. Check in stations will open at 8am for people to get their materials, volunteer T-shirt, and free lunch ticket. Pre-registration is not required. People will be assigned a stretch of road to clean. Children are welcome […]
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By Tom Lotshaw Researchers with UNR are working to better understand the impacts that a small but voracious non-native freshwater crustacean is having in Lake Tahoe and Crater Lake, two of America’s deepest, clearest lakes. Public agencies deliberately introduced signal crayfish into Lake Tahoe and Crater Lake in the early 1900s to help feed stocked sport […]
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El Dorado County Habitat for Humanity’s A Brush with Kindness will be having a volunteer orientation meeting on May 24 from 6:30-8pm. Volunteers are being recruited to assist low-income homeowners who need exterior maintenance work on their homes, such as painting, minor exterior repairs, yard cleanup, and minimal landscaping. Volunteers with specific skills in carpentry, […]
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By Angela Stevens As summer approaches in the Tahoe basin, people naturally start looking at their yards and wondering what they should do to make that grass grow thick and green. Many Tahoe homeowners and residents in recent drought years have opted to replace their lawns with native or drought-tolerant landscaping that saves water by […]
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By Kathryn Reed An agitated suspect danced around, moving toward the officers in an aggressive manner. To shoot or not to shoot? Use another tool like a taser or baton? In a matter of seconds some of these “officers” shot at the suspect, others held back. It turned out the “perp” was reaching for his […]
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By Jon Coupal By now, most rural homeowners have become accustomed to receiving an annual bill of $150—or higher—for what is euphemistically called a “fire prevention fee.” However, this familiarity does not make writing out the check to the state Board of Equalization any more palatable. Many property owners, who are receiving no additional fire […]
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By Sonali Kohli, Los Angeles Times It’s no secret that in searching for a home, parents scrutinize nearby schools. The wealthy can afford to live in neighborhoods with small school districts, where most other students are wealthy, too. Now, a new study out of USC lends credence to the notion that this decision-making process is […]
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