By Tracy Franklin This is the second of a series of articles highlighting emergency preparedness. Use these tools to prepare yourself for an emergency. More information is available in the city’s website. Storing emergency supplies Chances are you will have to rely upon supplies you have available in your home for at least the first […]
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The Tahoe Fund, an environmental nonprofit raising funds for environmental improvement projects in the Lake Tahoe Basin, received an Every Day Capacity Building Grant from the National Environmental Education Foundation. The grant program is made possible through support of Toyota Motor Sales USA, Inc. This grant will provide resources to help the Tahoe Fund expand […]
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The U.S. Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin and Heavenly Mountain Resort are offering Ski with a Ranger en Español. Spanish Ski with a Ranger brings awareness of environmental issues to the local and visiting Latino community. The program will be offered March 13, March 27 and April 10, weather permitting. Tours are offered twice a […]
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By David Streitfeld, New York Times SAN FRANCISCO — Look out Las Vegas, here comes FarmVille. Silicon Valley is betting that online gambling is its next billion-dollar business, with developers across the industry turning casual games into occasions for adults to wager. At the moment these games are aimed overseas, where attitudes toward gambling are […]
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By AP SAN FRANCISCO — New figures show U.S. wine exports grew for the third consecutive year in 2012, setting a record of $1.43 billion in revenue, the San Francisco-based Wine Institute said this week. Ninety percent of those exports were from California. Volume shipments reached 424.6 million liters or 112.2 million cases. The European […]
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By Eli Segall, Las Vegas Sun Helped by a rate increase and lower expenses, NV Energy had a jump in fourth-quarter earnings and nearly doubled its profit in 2012. The power company, which serves about 90 percent of Nevada’s population, said Friday it earned $17.2 million of net income, or a gain of 7 cents […]
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By Maria L. La Ganga, Los Angeles Times SAN FRANCISCO — David Perlman had two deadlines on his mind as he elbowed his way through the Exploratorium, cane in one hand, notebook in the other. As the San Francisco Chronicle’s veteran science writer, Perlman has been covering the granddaddy of hands-on science museums since it […]
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By Dan Spano We have had a strong start to 2013 in Lake Tahoe real estate. Homes continue to sell at a strong pace and now the median price is starting to rise. Even with the reducing inventory of homes on the market and the interest rates still at an all-time low, I believe we’ll […]
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By Ed Ballam, Firehouse Fire has long been used as a weapon through history and continues to be an effective means of terrorism to this day. In his keynote address at the Firehouse World conference in San Diego, Robert Baird, deputy national fire director of Fire and Aviation Management for the U.S. Forest Service, said […]
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How many of you are frustrated with Lake Tahoe News lately because it’s slow to load or you can’t even get on? (Really, you don’t have to answer — we share your pain.) With the redesign came a new server — one that clearly is not functioning well. We are hoping to have the problem […]
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