By Hanna Brooks Olsen, Huffington Post You don’t have to be one of the 70 million Americans who suffer from a sleep disorder to wish for ways to sleep better. Between heavy work loads that keep many of us up late, the lure of late-night TV and our social lives, we may skimp on shut-eye […]
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Two 15-year-old boys have been ordered to pay $10,000 in restitution fines for starting the Ray May Fire. The August fire burned 3,628 acres south of Gardnerville and caused more than $2.8 million in damage. Earlier the judge had sentenced the teens to probation and ordered them to do 500 hours of fire-related community service. […]
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By Mike Anton, Los Angeles Times DARWIN — Here on the shoulder of the information superhighway, smartphones turn stupid, streaming videos shrink to a trickle and a simple download drags like a flat tire. Darwin is a former mining town cloistered in the high desert mountains between Death Valley National Park and the China Lake […]
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By Brian Duggan, Reno Gazette-Journal Reno officials continued to push on Wednesday for a “regionalized” fire service plan that fell apart when it was presented to Washoe County Commissioners last month. That $45 million plan would have consolidated fire services in Reno, the Truckee Meadows Fire Protection District and the Sierra Fire Protection District under […]
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This year’s annual spring South Shore tourism forum is titled Trends in Tourism. On April 26 from 3-5pm Ralf Garrison and Emilyn Sheffield will present current statistics and trends to inform tourism and hospitality operations for the future. Among the topics to be presented are differences in how the younger “wired” and ethnic visitors will […]
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Alpenglow Sports is partnering with Tahoe Institute for Natural Science to bring a unique type of guided snowshoe to the North Shore. The tour will last approximately three hours and will focus on winter survival strategies of the flora and fauna found throughout Page Meadows. Meet at Alpenglow in Tahoe City on March 31 at […]
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By Kathryn Reed SCOTTSDALE – Eighty-degree days in March and beer vendors meandering through the outfield grass. Clearly this is not AT&T Park in San Francisco. It’s Scottsdale Stadium – where the Giants call home during spring training. They will be playing there for another week to get ready for the real season. It’s appropriately […]
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To the community, Bread & Broth would like to express its heartfelt gratitude to Heavenly staff for once again adopting a Day of Nourishment. Volunteers from the Heavenly team spent their time on Monday helping Bread & Broth volunteers serve people a hot meal on a cold night. They served a well balanced, healthy meal […]
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By Holly Heyser, Sacramento Bee It’s something about the insanity of biathlon that lures people in: First, ski fast and hard. Then, stop, drop and try to shoot five targets while your thumping heart makes the sight on your .22 rifle bounce like hail on a tin roof. Now, do it all again – but […]
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By Eve Mitchell, Contra Costa Times Bowing to public pressure, Safeway said Wednesday it will no longer use a controversial filler called “pink slime” in its hamburger meat. Safeway, the nation’s second-largest supermarket chain, joins several other stores, including Whole Foods, Costco and Nob Hill Foods, in rejecting hamburger with the filler, called lean finely […]
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