By Teri Mizuhara With the lack of rain, our local vegetation is tinder dry. All you have to do is go outside to hear the crackle and crunch of pine needles and leaves under your feet. Add wind to this scenario and you are looking at very critical fire conditions — red flag conditions. We […]
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By USSA CORTINA d’AMPEZZO, Italy -– Julia Mancuso (Squaw Valley) continued to gain momentum toward Sochi with seventh place Thursday in an Audi FIS Alpine World Cup super G in Cortina for her best race of the season. Stacey Cook (Mammoth Mountain) added to the U.S. momentum with ninth, her best super G finish since […]
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The Truckee Donner Chamber of Commerce and the North Lake Tahoe Chamber/CVB/Resort Association in partnership with the Sierra Human Resources Association are offering 2014 Legal Update for California Business Leaders and Managers on Jan. 31 from 9am to noon. The event will be at the Hampton Inn, 10918 Brockway Road, Truckee. Attendees will be taught […]
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By Richard Harris, NPR Like other animals and many living things, we humans grow when we’re young and then stop growing once we mature. But trees, it turns out, are an exception to this general rule. In fact, scientists have discovered that trees grow faster the older they get. Once trees reach a certain height, […]
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By Kathryn Reed PLACERVILLE – Brittle brown. That’s what the El Dorado County wine country looks like. While the vines are normally dormant this time of year, the ground between them is usually a lush green. Instead, it’s barren. Rick Wickham has never seen is so bad in the 30 years he has been in […]
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By Jonathan Zimmerman, Los Angeles Times In 1975, Nebraska Sen. Roman Hruska warned a congressional hearing that college football was in mortal danger. The threat came from Title IX, the 1972 measure that outlawed sex discrimination in educational institutions receiving federal financial assistance. To comply with the law, Hruska feared, colleges would have to equalize […]
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• Terry Orr and Jonathan Finnoff, physicians with Tahoe Orthopedics and Sports Medicine, will volunteer as U.S. Ski Team physicians at the 2014 Winter Olympics. • The February issue of Sunset magazine has a feature on why people should live certain places. Kings Beach is a runner-up for “Best Place to Postpone Your Career”. • […]
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Publisher’s note: This is one of a series of blurbs about how the lack of winter is impacting businesses in the Lake Tahoe Basin. If you have an idea, please email it to info@LakeTahoeNews.net. Sun. No snow. Highs in the 40s and 50s. More of the same is in the forecast. That combination forced Tahoe […]
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By Sheelah Kolhatkar, Bloomberg Bloomberg News has just completed an investigation into the plight of working mothers in America, and it’s not a pretty picture. Only 12 percent of those employed get paid time off to care for a new baby, according to U.S. Labor Department statistics. Only three states have programs offering paid family […]
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Josh Daiek, who rides for and lives in Kirkwood, placed second Jan. 22 in the men’s ski competition of the SWATCH Freeride World Tour. The event took place at Courmayeur Mont Blanc in Italy and was the first of six events on the FWT this season. Daiek’s run began with two massive cliff drops that […]
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