Hot August Nights will be on the South Shore Aug. 3-5. There will be daily show-n-shines with cash and trophy awards, poker walks with cash awards to the winners, a cool car showroom, a classic car auction, automotive exhibits, special night time cruising, vendors, a sock hop and free ’50s and ’60s style live entertainment […]
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By Keld Jensen, Forbes Albert Einstein’s was estimated at 160, Madonna’s is 140, and John F. Kennedy’s was only 119, but as it turns out, your IQ score pales in comparison with your EQ, MQ, and BQ scores when it comes to predicting your success and professional achievement. IQ tests are used as an indicator […]
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By Vicki Barber A program to alert young drivers to the dangers of being distracted while driving is being quietly launched by student leaders, teachers and administrators at El Dorado County’s five public high schools and the county Office of Education. Even a split-second distraction can have deadly or long-lasting consequences, and the advent of […]
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South Lake Tahoe Police Department and Drug Enforcement Administration officials will accept unwanted prescription on April 28 from 10am-2pm at Safeway in South Lake Tahoe located at 1020 Johnson Blvd. By providing a place to dispose of medications, officials hope to help prevent abuse of prescription medication. The service is free and anonymous.
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Should the MojoMan Challenge, an adventure race competition that covers approximately 10½ miles and incorporates 25 to 30 challenge obstacles along the course, come to Heavenly Mountain resort in August? That is the question the local U.S. Forest Service wants people to answer. The event would take place on forest lands at the ski resort […]
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By David Wescott, Bloomberg Don’t expect to find Ronit Rogoszinski in meetings, entertaining clients, or hunched over her desk around lunchtime. The 45-year-old wealth adviser and financial planner in New York describes herself as an expert “practitioner of the power nap.” After waking up at about 5 a.m., sending her kids off to school, and […]
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By Kathryn Reed INCLINE VILLAGE – Rain falling on a hillside golf course. It would have made for the perfect field trip for the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency Governing Board. Instead, the board stayed inside to talk policy. But had they walked outside The Chateau at the Incline Village golf course, they could have asked […]
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By Erin Kelly, Gannett WASHINGTON — The Lake Tahoe and Reno area tourism industry shouldn’t have to suffer because of the reckless spending of some federal bureaucrats-gone-wild. That’s the premise of legislation proposed Wednesday by Rep. Shelley Berkley, D-Las Vegas, and Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev. The two lawmakers want to ensure that Reno and Las […]
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South Tahoe Earth Day is returning to the Bijou Community Park in South Lake Tahoe on April 28 from 10am-4pm. This year’s free Earth Day event includes a speakers’ stage with talks on aquatic invasive species, the history of Lake Tahoe, the story of Tahoe Tessie, and edible plants of the Sierra. The Kid Zone […]
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By Scott Sonner, AP RENO — Tiny meteorites found in the Sierra foothills of northern California were part of a giant fireball that exploded over the weekend with about one-third the explosive force of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima in World War II, scientists said Wednesday. The rocks each weighed about 10 grams, or […]
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