By Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle A glimpse into the Placerville area’a extraordinary past emerged last week with a donation of historic photographs chronicling the bittersweet story of America’s first Japanese settlers. The nearly 150-year-old portraits, which a local family is giving to the state park system, evoke a time when samurai swordsmen and silk […]
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By Kathryn Reed ZEPHYR COVE – No books needed. Lake Tahoe is a science lab unto itself. While students on the South Shore have been taking advantage of learning outdoors through the South Tahoe Environmental Education Coalition, a new resource was unveiled on June 9. An Environmental Science Center is now part of Zephyr Cove […]
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By Alexandra Spychalsky, Moonshine Ink Construction is a driving force in the Tahoe economy. The industry is the third largest employer in Tahoe, with 12.6 percent of the local population working at construction-based businesses. And yet, women are underrepresented in the field. But some women are pioneers in the industry and have risen to the […]
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By Christopher Cadelago, Sacramento Bee California voters overwhelmingly oppose a recent tax and fee package pushed by Gov. Jerry Brown and the Democratic-dominated Legislature to pay for road repairs, a new poll finds. The gas tax law, which ushers in a 10-year program to raise more than $52 billion for transportation projects, is so […]
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Publisher’s note: Lake Tahoe News this month will be running several stories leading up to the 10th anniversary of the Angora Fire on June 24, 2007. By Susan Wood A Lake Tahoe Unified School District teacher overcame a critical test of resilience with her husband while confronting the loss of her trees, her roots and […]
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By Christopher Reynolds, Los Angeles Times Who flies to Reno on a spring evening, rents a car and heads into the mountains with no skis, no mountain bike and a backpack full of books? Me. Why? Because in 1861 a 25-year-old Missouri riverboat pilot named Sam Clemens boarded a stagecoach bound for the same territory. […]
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By Dale Kasler, Sacramento Bee Californians pay about 15 cents a gallon extra at the pump to fight climate change. Here’s what they’re getting for their money: continued progress in the effort to curb carbon. Greenhouse gas emissions fell by 1.5 million tons in California in 2015, state officials announced Wednesday. The reduction was the […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Tahoe High School girls’ soccer coach was exonerated after the school district conducted an investigation, but many who filed the complaints were never interviewed. The school district said it found nothing to keep Mark Salmon from returning to the sidelines. It was a five-week investigation that recently culminated. The exact date […]
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By Richard N. Velotta, Las Vegas Review-Journal The casino industry may find its business model vaporized like travel agencies, DVD stores and land lines unless leaders transform themselves with innovation, a speaker at a one-day innovation conference in Las Vegas said. Southern California-based Rob Tercek, founder and president of General Creativity Consulting and the author […]
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By Jessica Meyers, Los Angeles Times Gov. Jerry Brown met with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday in a rare diplomatic coup that catapults California into quasi-national status as a negotiator with China following the decision last week by President Trump to pull the U.S. out of the Paris climate accord. Their encounter underlined […]
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