By Michelle Fay Cortez, Bloomberg Pet and animal foods would for the first time have to meet uniform manufacturing, processing and packaging standards under rules proposed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. While the FDA typically gets involved in investigating contaminated pet food that is already on the market, the new regulations are designed […]
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More than 45 California Conservation Corps members bucked and split wood on California Tahoe Conservancy property this month that will be distributed by Kiwanis to seniors and disabled in the basin. Corps members participated in service projects around the state on this Volunteer Day. The wood was generated by the U.S. Forest Service Upper Truckee […]
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By Vanessa Wong, Bloomberg Maybe canned foods remind us of school lunches. Or power outages. Or Y2K paranoia. Or cuisine from the ’50s. Perhaps it’s concern about BPA. Maybe the home canning trend keeps consumers from the supermarket. Because sales of preserved foods in the U.S. are fading. Except during the recession, when consumers sought […]
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By Renee Dudley and Lindsey Rupp, Bloomberg Katie Smith plans to spend $200 less on holiday gifts this year because of concerns that weak U.S. job growth will hurt her husband’s home-remodeling business. “We’ve scaled back,” said the 51-year-old project manager for Wake Forest University’s medical school as she perused cowboy boots for her 12-year-old […]
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The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency is taking nominations for the Lake Spirit Awards. The public is encouraged to nominate members of community who have gone above and beyond the call of duty to protect the beauty and clarity of the Lake. A North Shore and South Shore winner will be selected in each category. Nominations […]
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By Jason Dearen, AP SAN FRANCISCO — Federal wildlife officials on Friday proposed to list as threatened populations of greater sage grouse in Nevada and California in an effort to save the struggling species, a decision that promises to pose new challenges for ranching and energy development in the West. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife […]
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• Do you want to be as fit as Olympian Julia Mancuso? Shape magazine has the Squaw Valley skier’s secrets. • There will be a job and resource fair Nov. 7 from 10am-3pm for veterans, National Guard and reservists returning from active duty. The location will be the McClellan Conference Center, 5411 Luce Ave., McClellan. […]
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By USSA SOELDEN, Austria — In the first race of the season, two U.S. women skied the final run. Slalom world champion Mikaela Shiffrin (Eagle-Vail, Colo.) skied into sixth place in the Soelden giant slalom to kick off the 2014 Audi FIS Alpine World Cup Season on Oct. 26. Shiffrin led the U.S. women in […]
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Do you remember Oliver’s casino or the tree in the middle of Highway 50 or the first high school at South Shore? Several long-time residents will be looking back on local history Nov. 12 at 7pm in the lodge of Camp Richardson. The Lake Tahoe Historical Society is putting on the event. Cost is $3 […]
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By Kathryn Reed “Who was that?” “That’s one of my kids,” Joy Rothschild would say. Biologically she didn’t have any children. But Rothschild had a bond with so many Lake Tahoe Unified students through being an aide in the schools, working to get those who in some manner were homeless to have a more stable […]
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