By Kathryn Reed Lake Tahoe and many parts of California and Nevada are setting records for being so dry. Tahoe City receives on average 31.55 inches of precipitation each year. It has received 8.08 inches for 2013. Records date to 1910. The last significantly dry year was in 1976 when 9.34 inches of precip fell. […]
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To the community, Some things are upside down in our city. For instance, the city recently raised the cost of having a telephone with charging an annual fee for 911 service. It doesn’t matter if a person ever dials 911 or not. The fee is really a general tax. If it were a fee, it […]
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By Nick Zaccardi, NBC No date has been set for Lindsey Vonn‘s return to competition after her surgically repaired right knee swelled up after skiing out of a downhill race in Val d’Isere, France, on Dec. 21. Vonn is working with her own team and medical staff to get the swelling under control, U.S. Ski […]
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Introduction to Care Giving Skills is a class being offered by Elder Options. It is designed to help people understand the issues around getting older, how to be safe, physically active, maintain good health and dietary habits as well as recognize the independent spirit within or with others you’re working with. It is geared toward […]
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By NPR In the early 1990s, a team of researchers decided to follow about 40 volunteer families — some poor, some middle class, some rich — during the first three years of their new children’s lives. Every month, the researchers recorded an hour of sound from the families’ homes. Later in the lab, the team […]
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A 56-year-old Carson City woman died from the injuries she sustained while skiing at Heavenly Mountain Resort. Dana Tuttle died Dec. 22 at Renown Medical Center in Reno one day after the accident. Heavenly on Dec. 30 said the woman was found unresponsive on Tamarack Return at 10:26am Dec. 21. Ski patrol provided advanced life […]
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By Kathryn Reed A father of five escaped with minor injuries when a fire swept through their Granlibakken home in Tahoe City. Gabrielle Cuevas was trying to help his kids about 4:30am Dec. 30 when he was burned on his hands and suffered smoke inhalation. He was treated at Renown Medical Center in Reno. North […]
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By Amy Farley, Travel + Leisure For our annual forecast of the trends that will define travel for the coming year, Travel + Leisure looked at the big changes in store for air travel, hotels, websites, and gadgets. Airports will become more enjoyable. Tech gadgets will continue to shrink and get smarter: phalets (smartphone-tablet hybrids), […]
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By Martin Griffith, AP RENO — Nevada officials have launched a new bid to give Mark Twain recognition in the state where he assumed his pen name 150 years ago, but it doesn’t come without opposition. The Nevada State Board on Geographic Names is again pushing a proposal to name a scenic Lake Tahoe cove […]
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By Tom de Castella, BBC Former F1 champion Michael Schumacher is fighting for his life in a French hospital after suffering a head injury in an off-piste skiing accident. How dangerous is off-piste skiing? Schumacher was wearing a helmet, which experts say may have prevented him dying in the immediate aftermath. Skiing itself is far […]
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