By Lauren Sommer, NPR The record-breaking wildfire in Yosemite National Park is almost fully contained, two months after it started. The blaze calls attention to a problem across the Western U.S. — after a century having its fires routinely extinguished, the forests are overloaded with fuel. A heated debate has flared up about what do […]
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The 28th annual Red Ribbon Week is this month and the National Family Partnership has launched its monthlong national contest. Ten families across America will win $1,000 for their school and an iPad for their home. This campaign is for prevention of drug and alcohol abuse by youth. More info about the contest is online. […]
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Mann, Urrutia, Nelson, CPAs & Associates will present a three-part workshop series for business owners. The workshops will take place Oct. 23, Oct. 30 and Nov. 6 at 10am in the Lake Tahoe South Shore Chamber of Commerce conference room in Stateline. Topics will include the different options for structuring your company, accounting and financials, […]
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Publisher’s note: Sens. Dianne Feinstein (D), Barbara Boxer (D) and Harry Reid (D) voted to end the government shutdown and raise the debt ceiling, Sen. Dean Heller (R) voted against it; Reps. Tom McClintock (R) and Mark Amodei (R) voted against it. By Toluse Olorunnipa, Kathleen Miller and Brian Wingfield, Bloomberg Gum Tong owns a […]
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• South Lake Tahoe Mayor Tom Davis will give a state of the city address on Nov. 5 at 9am at Lake Tahoe Airport. • Tahoe Donner is hosting a winter job fair Oct. 19 from 11am-6pm at the Northwoods Clubhouse located at 11509 Northwoods Blvd. • Charter Communications customers in the South Lake Tahoe […]
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A brush fire behind the Amacker Ranch on the South Shore burned about a 100-foot-100-foot swath of land. “It was next to a hiking trail. It could have been anybody or anything at this time,” Brad Zlendick, Lake Valley battalion chief, told Lake Tahoe News. The investigation into the cause of the Oct. 16 fire […]
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By Brian Hickey, KCRA-TV JACKSON — Employees at the Jackson Rancheria Casino will soon have a starting wage that is $2 higher than the statewide minimum of $8 per hour. The Indian casino, owned and operated by the Jackson Rancheria Band of Miwuk Indians, announced that in January, pay for its employees will start at […]
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By Kathryn Reed SPOONER SUMMIT – If you think Spooner Summit is busy now, you really would not have liked traveling this route more than a century ago. A dirt road and a railroad line were in this area in the late 1800s. This was a critical link between Placerville and Virginia City during the […]
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To the community, Well-known conservationist Bob Anderson and his wife, Grace, were on a 70th birthday trip to climb Mount Kilimanjaro in the Serengeti National Park in Kenya when a van accident caused fatal head injuries to Bob and injured Grace. The couple had completed their successful climb of the over-19,000-foot high mountain. Bob served […]
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By Tony Barboza, Los Angeles Times National parks from the Sierra Nevada to the Great Smoky Mountains are increasingly being fertilized by unwanted nutrients drifting through the air from agricultural operations, putting some of the country’s most treasured natural landscapes at risk of ecological damage, a study has found. Thirty-eight of 45 national parks examined […]
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