By Fernanda Santos, New York Times Carrying a fire shelter has been mandatory for anyone fighting a wildfire in the United States since 1977. But in Canada, where a raging fire is threatening to destroy the entire city of Fort McMurray, Alberta, firefighters stopped carrying shelters in 2005. Do Canadians know something Americans don’t? Wildfires […]
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By Ben Steverman, Bloomberg Rudy is a 9-year-old German shorthaired pointer with a regal personality and loving owners who are divorced. The humans in his life agreed to a shared-custody arrangement: Every two weeks, Rudy goes back and forth between their two homes in Western Massachusetts. It was an informal deal, worked out with no […]
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By Tyler Kingkade, Huffington Post BOSTON — Education Secretary John King Jr. called for so-called bathroom laws to be repealed on Monday, hinting that his department won’t sit on its hands if schools ignore federal law protecting the rights of LGBT students. “They’re hateful laws and should be repealed,” King said at a conference for education reporters. […]
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By Amy Graff, San Francisco Chronicle A determined beetle the size of a rice grain is drilling into California’s trees, turning the lush forest blanketing the Golden State into a sea of dead wood that’s highly flammable. The most recent data from 2015 estimates bark beetles have killed over 29 million trees, and Cal Fire […]
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Longtime South Lake Tahoe resident Beverly LaVerne Hansen died April 3, 2016. She was 88. She was born in Enumclaw, Wash., on July 27, 1927. In 1948 at the age of 21, she married Ellery Einess and they were married for over 50 years. Together, they had four children, nine grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren. The […]
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By Daniel Rothberg, Las Vegas Sun NV Energy does not expect to build a new fossil fuel power plant in the next decade, making it unlikely that it will go forward with a controversial $1 billion natural gas plant that the utility had proposed last fall. The utility, instead, signed an agreement early last month […]
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A South Lake Tahoe woman died in single-vehicle accident on the West Slope on Saturday. Celina Alexandre, 26, was headed east on Highway 50 near Paul Bunyon Road in Camino when her vehicle drifted off the roadway and struck a tree, according to the California Highway Patrol. This occurred about 9:35pm April 30. She was […]
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An Incline Village woman had to be rescued from the cliffs at Emerald Bay on Thursday afternoon. Jane Rylander had been climbing in the steep cliff bands from Vikingsholm parking lot down toward the castle. She became stuck on the cliff band after slipping and sliding down the embankment. She was not hurt, but she […]
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By Sean Whaley, Las Vegas Review-Journal For the first time in aviation history, a fixed-wing unmanned aircraft has successfully tested a cloud-seeding payload during an experimental flight in Nevada. Flown at Hawthorne Industrial Airport under the state’s Federal Aviation Administration Unmanned Aircraft Systems Test Site designation, the Drone America Savant aircraft reached an altitude of […]
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· Construction on Cave Rock is expected to start May 9. Traffic near Cave Rock will be reduced to one lane in each direction and routed through the eastbound tunnel. · The American Council of Graduate Medical Education has identified Barton Health, in conjunction with Lake Tahoe Sports Medicine Fellowship program, as an accredited graduate […]
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