By Anjeanette Damon, Las Vegas Sun Skip Daly chuckled the first time he saw the website erected last year to anonymously attack his credibility during the Democratic assemblyman’s campaign. “It was just so over the top, of course, no one would believe it,” Daly said. TheUnionBoss.com was filled with ugly clichés about burying bodies in […]
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By Janice Lloyd, USA Today More research shows that even small amounts of aerobic exercise help lower coronary heart disease risk, according to a review published Monday in Circulation, the journal of the American Heart Association. The mega-study is part of a growing body of research showing that some physical activity provides health benefits — […]
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Now that the holidays are over, the South Lake Tahoe Fire Department would like to remind everyone that they should be aware of the potentially explosive hazard of a dried out Christmas tree in your home. Do not try to burn your tree in the fireplace, even if it is chopped into small pieces. Trees […]
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By Daniel Borenstein, San Jose Mercury News When it comes to public-employee pensions in California, what goes up usually can’t come down. At least that’s the prevailing legal theory, severely restricting reform options across the state. As the state pension squeeze intensifies, we soon could see those limits tested. Pensions typically are based on the […]
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Lake Tahoe author David Antonucci presents an illustrated talk on his newest book on Lake Tahoe, “Fairest Picture: Mark Twain at Lake Tahoe” on Jan. 18 at 6pm as part of the Explore Tahoe Winter Speaker Series. The event is at Explore Tahoe: An Urban Trailhead located at 4114 Lake Tahoe Blvd., South Lake Tahoe. […]
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By Kathryn Reed Second thoughts are what the California State Park and Recreation commissioners are having regarding the October decision to approve the final EIR for the Upper Truckee River restoration project, and to swap land between Washoe Meadows State Park and Lake Valley Recreation Area to allow Lake Tahoe Golf Course to be reconfigured. […]
Read moreLahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board at the Jan. 11-12 meetings in Apple Valley will consider a resolution regarding the California Tahoe Conservancy restoration project in lower Blackwood Creek. Comments on the Blackwood Canyon proposal will be taken until Jan. 9. Anyone with questions or wanting to discuss the project should call (530) 542.5439 or email […]
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In spring 2011, local mountain guide Adrian Ballinger became the first person to summit three 8,000-meter peaks within a three-week period. Ballinger summitted Mount Everest (29,029 feet) twice in two weeks, first while fixing ropes to the summit with an elite group of the world’s strongest sherpa, and then again while guiding a group of […]
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By Cy Ryan, Las Vegas Sun CARSON CITY — A general improvement district that purchased four beaches on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe in 1968 is not violating the U.S. Constitution in barring the public from the areas, a federal court has ruled. The U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals has denied the petition […]
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