By Richard N. Velotta, Las Vegas Sun Caesars Entertainment’s online poker website, using the World Series of Poker brand, will launch Thursday morning, company officials said Monday. Caesars Interactive will capitalize on the brand with online tournaments feeding into the company’s annual competition at the Rio that runs from late May to mid-July. The site, […]
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By Barbara Barte Osborn, Sacramento Bee TRUCKEE — A Truckee woman who struck a pedestrian while riding her bicycle – causing injuries leading to the man’s death – will not be charged. Nevada County Deputy District Attorney William Cornell has determined the findings in the case do not support filing a criminal manslaughter charge, according […]
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By Brady Dennis and Brian Vastag, Los Angeles Times The nation faces “potentially catastrophic consequences” if it doesn’t act quickly to combat the growing threat of antibiotic-resistant infections, which kill an estimated 23,000 Americans each year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warned Monday. In a 114-page report, the agency detailed for the first […]
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Expect highway closures and traffic delays in the North Lake Tahoe area on Sept. 22 because of the inaugural Ironman Lake Tahoe race. Northbound Highway 89 will be completely closed from Fairway Drive in Tahoe City to Squaw Valley Road from 7am to 5:30pm on race day. Southbound Highway 267 will be closed from Northstar […]
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Tahoe Tri Club has teamed with South Lake Tahoe to host three family races in a series called Run Through the Holidays. The three races will be themed to match each of the holidays coming up this fall. The events will infuse fitness and fun into what can often be a stressful time of year. […]
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By Kiera Butler, Mother Jones A full third of the world’s food is wasted. According to a report from the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization, discarded food accounts for a staggering amount of planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions. In fact, if food waste was a country, its 3.3 gigatonnes of emissions would make it the third […]
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By Kathryn Reed TAHOE CITY – A thick overgrown forest with logging roads that became gullies during the wet season that would then carry sediment into Ward Creek and Lake Tahoe. That was what these 179 acres near Tahoe City were like in the early 1980s when the McClatchy family deeded the property to California […]
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By Dan Walters, Sacramento Bee California is simultaneously implementing two major – even historic – changes in its 6-million-student public school system, and all adults involved pledge that they have the best interests of those kids at heart. They may be telling the truth about their motives. Nevertheless, the adoption of Common Core academic standards […]
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By Tina Susman, Los Angeles Times ARLINGTON, Va. — It was 90-plus degrees outside, but there was a distinctly wintry feel in the second-floor lobby of a hotel overlooking the Potomac River. Perhaps it was the rows of Christmas trees, standing tall and straight as tin soldiers. Or maybe the wreaths displayed on stands, like […]
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By Tyler Graham, Bloomberg Instead of going to a gym, Erwan Le Corre climbs trees and shoulders heavy logs. And on your next vacation, he wants you to join him. Le Corre’s Santa Fe, N.N.–based MovNat is one of a handful of fitness outfitters offering getaways centered on the notion that our Stone Age genes […]
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