Twenty-eight South Shore nonprofits will share $85,000 from funds raised during the annual celebrity golf tournament at Edgewood Tahoe. Lake Tahoe Visitors Authority in partnership with NBC Sports and American Century Investments had already handed out $60,000 during tournament week to area high schools, Soroptimist International of South Lake Tahoe and others. Local cancer support […]
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By Paul Rogers, San Jose Mercury News Twenty of the nation’s top climate scientists have sent a letter to Gov. Jerry Brown, telling him that his plans supporting increased use of the controversial practice of hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking,” will increase pollution and run counter to his efforts to cut California’s global warming emissions. The […]
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El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office has been awarded a two-year $250,000 Justice and Mental Health Collaboration Program grant. The money from the U.S. Department of Justice will be used to assist the Crisis Intervention Team. The CIT was originally developed based upon the national recognition that law enforcement needed to take an alternate approach when […]
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On Thursday, one bear was put down and another caught with the goal to release it on Friday. Nevada Department of Wildlife officials said because of the extent of the injuries to the Incline Village bear it had to be euthanized. The animal could not use its back legs, which may have been the result […]
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Updated: Nov. 15 10:25am By Kathryn Reed All Lukins Brothers Water Company customers are on a “boil water” order because coliform was discovered at one of the test sites. Coliform is found naturally in the environment. According to the EPA, “Total coliforms are a group of closely related, mostly harmless bacteria that live in soil […]
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By Louis Sahagun, Los Angeles Times Horticulturists recently announced that they had successfully cloned a genetic replica of an ailing 130-year-old giant sequoia planted by conservationist John Muir in the 1880s on his ranch in Martinez. And many more are apparently on the way, they say. If all goes according to plan, the first clone […]
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By Lyndsey Layton, Washington Post When a student at Elliston Elementary in rural Montana logs onto her laptop for a remote lesson over the Internet, Tressa Graveley must ration the Web for the rest of her tiny school. The teacher tells other students to shut down their browsers and stop streaming video or there won’t […]
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Retailers throughout the state are receiving letters from the California State Board of Equalization notifying them about upcoming visits from Statewide Compliance and Outreach Program teams. Truckee is on that list. SCOP visits are intended to educate retailers about properly reporting sales and use tax, increase compliance with tax laws, and maintain outreach efforts to […]
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• Nate Holland, seven-time X-Games champ and Olympic snowboarder, has signed on as Rahlves’ Banzai Tour snowboard ambassador. • Grammy Award winning island music superstars Shaggy & Ravon and the legendary group Black Uhuru will headline separate shows at the Lake Tahoe Fall Harvest Reggae Jam at MontBleu in Stateline on Nov. 19 and Nov. […]
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By Amanda L. Chan, Huffington Post If you’re trying to resist the mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese and bacon at the buffet, you might want to try filling your plate with fruits and vegetables first, a study suggests. Researchers at Cornell University found that when people ate healthy foods first at a buffet, they consumed […]
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