By Kathryn Reed It doesn’t matter if one is on the street or the beach, the area near the Alta Mira building in South Lake Tahoe is not visually appealing. At lake level there is a large pipe coming out of the bluff that is delivering water into Lake Tahoe. At curbside the structure blocks […]
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Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the March 7, 2014, Orange County Register. Despite the recent heavy rain, California’s water situation remains dire. Data from the U.S. Drought Monitor, a partnership between the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, shows […]
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A two-car accident on Highway 50 in front of the Lakeridge development near Glenbrook sent five people to the hospital. The March 20 collision occurred about 7:30pm. Traffic was affected for a couple hours. Nevada Highway Patrol Trooper John Jessee told Lake Tahoe News that a white 4Runner driven by a 16-year-old Stateline boy “failed […]
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By USSA SQUAW VALLEY — Olympic slalom gold medalist and World Cup slalom champion Mikaela Shiffrin (Eagle-Vail) continued her storybook season Thursday with a victory in the Nature Valley U.S. Alpine Championships giant slalom. To kick off the first day of spring, the 19-year-old technical phenom posted a 1.5-second first run lead before expanding it […]
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By Richard Knox, NPR When sweeping new advice on preventing heart attacks and strokes came out last November, it wasn’t clear how many more Americans should be taking daily statin pills to lower their risk. A new analysis provides an answer: a whole lot. Nearly 13 million more, to be precise. If the guidelines were […]
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The Douglas County Public Library’s storytime will resume at the Kahle Community Center in April and continue through June 5. Preschool stories take place on alternate Thursday and Friday mornings from 9-9:30am. Thursday dates are: April 10 and 24; May 8 and 22; and June 5. Friday dates are: April 4; May 2, 16, and […]
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By Brady McCombs, AP SALT LAKE CITY — More than three decades after the idea was first discussed, general managers at seven Utah ski resorts announced Wednesday they are committed to finally building a series of chairlifts that would link their ski areas and give the state a European-style experience. But it won’t be available […]
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By Mike Dunne, Sacramento Bee We wine writers devote entirely too much space to wines and the vintners who make them, not enough to grapes and the farmers who grow them. Well, then, let’s catch up with Ron Mansfield, who farms 300 acres of wine grapes on and about Apple Hill in El Dorado County. […]
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In recognition of the Nevada’s sesquicentennial, Changing Faces and Places: Making Nevada is the second in a series of three Special Collections & University Archives exhibits commemorating 150 years of Nevada history at the Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center at UNR. In a free presentation related to the exhibit, Holly Walton-Buchanan, author of “Land of the Buckaroo: […]
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Caltrans and Southwest Gas Corporation will be co-hosting two meetings on March 26 to update the public on a project to improve Highway 89 on the West Shore. The meetings will be at the Tahoe City Public Utility District office at 221 Fairway Drive in Tahoe City. There will be a morning session at 10:30 […]
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