The U.S. Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit is accepting public comment on the Off-Highway Vehicle Cooperative Funds grant application. The OHMVR grant provides staffing for OHV education and information, law enforcement patrols, resource and use monitoring, and protection for both natural and cultural resources in the Lake Tahoe Basin. The 30-day comment period […]
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A Zephyr Cove woman is behind bars for allegedly shooting her husband. Harry Leibel, 64, died of a single gunshot wound. Douglas County sheriff’s deputies said at first Tatiana Leibel, 50, told them her husband shot himself. “During the subsequent investigation, information was developed to implicate Tatiana as a suspect,” deputies said in a press […]
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By Kathryn Reed Lake Tahoe taxpayers have not directly paid for any of the buildings at Lake Tahoe Community College. But that could soon change. The college is contemplating going to the voters in November with a general obligation bond between $35 million and $55 million. This would be spent on facilities. The board this […]
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To the community, I was pleasantly surprised at the turnout for the city’s first workshop on updating the airport master plan last week on Feb. 13 at City Hall. I want to thank city officials for holding it. There was a large crowd present who came to the meeting with different views and perspectives about […]
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By Sarah Laskow, Columbia Journalism Review For every Olympics since 1994’s Lillehammer Games, Andy Billings has broken down how much time the primetime broadcast spends covering male athletes and female athletes. Usually, men get significantly more of the clock time. But this year, when Billings, who directs the University of Alabama’s sports communications program, and […]
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By Lauren Steele, Outside When Nike released the FuelBand in January 2012, my boyfriend at the time was certain it would make the perfect gift for me, raising the bar for my fitness-crazed inner athlete—a welcome development, right? On the fateful day he ordered my wrist-worn, nonhuman trainer, little did he know that he was […]
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By Dominique Mosbergen, Huffington Post The exercise habits of the average American are appalling, according to a study recently published in Mayo Clinic Proceedings. For the study, scientists tracked the activity of 2,600 people for two years. They found that obese women average a mere 11 seconds a day of vigorous exercise (that’s about an […]
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Kingsbury Grade was closed for several hours Sunday when two drivers from the Bay Area were in a collision. Kevin C. Wilhite, 19, of Castro Valley was driving a black 2003 GMC Yukon east on the grade near Terrace View Drive when he crossed the double yellow line and struck the front of a Toyota […]
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By Patricia Cohen, New York Times To many photographers, a federal appeals court ruling last spring that permitted Richard Prince to use someone else’s photographs in his art was akin to slapping a “Steal This” label on their work. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit reasoned that as long as Prince’s work […]
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By NPR The Lodo Wellness Center in Denver has been selling medical marijuana for several years. But since Jan. 1, when marijuana in Colorado officially moved from underground to behind-the-counter, they’ve also been selling legal, recreational pot. A majority of Americans now say they support full legalization, and the trend is spreading: Legal weed is […]
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