By Katharine Mieszkowski, Center for Investigative Reporting Each month, the U.S. Department of Agriculture publishes a list calling out chicken processing plants across the country that have failed salmonella testing. Notably absent from its October report: the three Foster Farms plants in Central California that have been linked to a virulent outbreak. Those facilities in […]
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It’s going to be lot more comfortable waiting for a bus this winter in South Lake Tahoe with the addition of six covered shelters. The structures are located on Highway 50 in front of South Tahoe Middle School, by the senior center, South Lake Tahoe Library, El Dorado Center, corner of Ski Run Boulevard and […]
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By Kristy Totten, Las Vegas Review-Journal Cool weather, refunds to consumers and merger-related costs held down NV Energy earnings in the third quarter. The utility reported Friday a third-quarter net income of $187.2 million, or 79 cents per share — $36 million less than third-quarter earnings in 2012, which totaled $223.2 million, or 94 cents […]
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Don’t forget to set your clocks back an hour tonight before you go to bed. At 2am Nov. 3 it’s time to return to standard time. The whole reason for this, according to the federal government, is energy and fuel savings. Daylight saving time returns March 9.
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By Kathryn Reed Barton Health has been on a bit of a property buying spree as well as deep into plans to be more energy efficient. The South Lake Tahoe health care system just closed escrow on four buildings on Emerald Bay Road, two of which the organization was renting. One is used for Barton […]
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Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the Oct. 22, 2013, Los Angeles Times. The California Master Plan for Higher Education decreed that it was the job of the state’s community colleges to train students for technical careers and for the sort of semi-professional occupations that generally require a two-year associate’s degree. Those who wanted a […]
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UC Cooperative Extension is looking for adults interested in helping others learn about gardening and landscaping to apply to train as a master gardener volunteer. UCCE master gardener volunteers learn university-based scientific information and then share that knowledge with the gardening community. Master gardener volunteers are people of all ages and from all walks of […]
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By Bettina Boxall, Los Angeles Times State officials Thursday released the draft of a new California Water Action Plan that doesn’t include much action. The 17-page document covers little new ground, outlining familiar water policy goals with few details of how they will be achieved. Among the goals: • Make water conservation a “way of […]
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By David Wharton and Sergei L. Loiko, Los Angeles Times MOSCOW — Clouds of dust. Piles of rubble. Muddy roads and construction sites. Oleg Rubezhansky looks around Sochi and says: “We live like in a besieged town during the war.” His Russian city is not under attack, it is scrambling to finish preparations for the […]
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Tahoe Regional Planning Agency has created a GIS-based online tool that allows property owners and contractors to design BMPs. It is available online for free. It was created because of the dwindling funds for on-site best management practices evaluations. To use the BMP Designer, property owners should have knowledge of the following: The direction water […]
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