By Jeremy B. White, Sacramento Bee More medical professionals, including nurses and midwives, would be permitted to perform certain early abortions in California under a bill unveiled Tuesday. In a news conference at the Capitol that served to both introduce the bill and mark the 40-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s landmark Roe v. Wade […]
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Updated: Jan. 24 11:35am By Kathryn Reed The four South Lake Tahoe council members will have at least seven people to choose from to fill the vacant seat. Five had turned in papers, with two more turning in papers today – Brooke Laine and Bruce Grego. Laine is a former council member, having stepped down […]
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Lake Tahoe Community College Writers’ Series is hosting Tracy Ross, author of the memoir “The Source of All Things”, on Feb. 7 at 7pm in the Aspen Room. The evening will include a reading, discussion and book signing. The event is free and open to the community. Books will be available for purchase. Ross is […]
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A mix of snow and rain is expected. Here is the Jan. 24 ski report. — Curtis Fong
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A shallow magnitude 4.0 earthquake was reported Thursday morning 13 miles from Markleeville, according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The temblor occurred at 12:21am at a depth of 8.1 miles. According to the USGS, the epicenter was 18 miles from Alpine Village, 18 miles from Dardanelle, 32 miles from South Lake Tahoe and 99 miles […]
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North Lake Tahoe Fire Protection District will be hosting a Community Blood Drive on Feb. 8 from 9am-4pm at the main fire station located at 875 Tanager St., Incline Village. Food and beverages will be provided courtesy of the Hyatt Regency Resort and U-Bake Pizza. To make an appointment, call (775) 831.0351, ext. zero.
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By Kathryn Reed Fifty-four riders from eight countries will be competing this weekend at Sierra-at-Tahoe in the first qualifier for the 2014 U.S. Paralympic snowboarding team. Today begins a two-day camp for riders, with the race on Sunday. With the folks associated with next year’s Olympics in Sochi, Russia, deciding less than a year ago […]
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Publisher’s note: This is reprinted with permission from the August 1989 Lake Tahoe Historical Society newsletter. At the Pope Estate: August 18, 1925 Dear Agatha, You asked me to describe our weekend at Lake Tahoe but I fear that I cannot do it justice. From Tahoe City we were driven in an open car by […]
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By Ben Goldfarb The generation of young people now entering the workforce – call us Millennials, or Gen Y, or the Vast Unemployed – has a very different relationship with environmentalism than our forebears did. The stereotype of the conservationist hurling himself between the whale and the harpoon is increasingly anachronistic and so too is […]
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By Matt Weiser, Sacramento Bee Californians can purchase a state parks annual pass on their income tax return for the 2012 tax year. The pass costs $195 and provides unlimited day-use access for one year to 130 state parks, or about half of all parks in the California Department of Parks and Recreation system. Taxpayers […]
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