By Susan Wood OK kids — get perfect grades and your success could lead to being graded at the Winter Olympic Games one day. And you’ll be in good company. Gold medalist Maddie Bowman of Meyers, who told Lake Tahoe News she plans to compete in the Pyeongchang, South Korea, Olympics Games in 2018, started […]
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By Keith Ridler, AP It sounds like a big fish story: a plan to create a biodiversity map identifying thousands of aquatic species in every river and stream in the western U.S. But scientists say they’re steadily reeling in that whopper and by next summer will have the first Aquatic Environmental DNA Atlas available for […]
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By Lake Tahoe News Following the passage of Propositions 64, Placer County supervisors are trying to keep pace. The state recreational marijuana initiative allows people to grow a limited amount of pot indoors. Supervisors voted 4-0 to allow limited cultivation inside and outside in the unincorporated areas of the county — which includes Lake Tahoe. […]
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By Kathryn Reed While everybody might not know your name, you still feel comfortable among strangers. This is Meyers. It’s a community unto itself. It has that sense of place; where you belong to something bigger, but not something so big that you get lost. Going to South Lake Tahoe is going to town. When […]
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By Rachel Abrams, New York Times If you’re in the retail business in the United States, you probably really care about these two things: millennials and Black Friday. But more and more, these two big drivers of the industry don’t mix inside stores — a dynamic that is reshaping one of the country’s biggest shopping […]
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By Rong-Gong Lin II, Los Angeles Times A sobering new report on California’s seismic vulnerabilities said that up to 3.5 million homes could be damaged if an 8.0 earthquake ruptured on the San Andreas fault. The new estimate, from the data firm CoreLogic, is based on a theoretical rupture of the entire San Andreas fault, […]
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By Maura Judkis, Washington Post Every year at Thanksgiving, we’re subjected to stories about how to cope with your drunk uncle, your bratty cousin, your grandma with an ax to grind. And every year, at least for those who come from your typical, slightly dysfunctional but lovably kooky family, the idea that we’d need an entire […]
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By Kathryn Reed It didn’t matter that only one run was open. Hundreds of people were taking lap after lap after lap at Heavenly Mountain Resort today. It was opening day after all and people had pent up energy having not skied since April. Not everyone, though, was on the mountain to ride. “We […]
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By Josh Boak, AP WASHINGTON — Americans bought homes in October at the fastest pace in nearly decade, helped out by low mortgage rates that have since started to climb following the presidential election of Donald Trump. The National Association of Realtors said Tuesday that sales of existing homes rose 2 percent to a seasonally […]
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By Kathryn Reed While a bit of apprehension fills the halls of South Tahoe High School because of next week’s visit from the accreditation team, optimism also abounds because there is the belief the original decree handed down last spring was based on faulty assessments. Being an accredited high school is huge, especially when it […]
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