Updated Nov.2 3pm: By Kathryn Reed A court decision today upheld the validity of Tahoe Regional Planning Agency’s 2012 Regional Plan update. The Sierra Club and Friends of the West Shore, represented by Earthjustice, filed a lawsuit saying the environmental impact statement for the RPU failed to analyze how the document will have negative impacts […]
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By Kathryn Reed Half of the women’s 2017 Amgen bike race will be in South Lake Tahoe. Officials announced today that the women will be returning to the area May 11-12. Day 1 the cyclists will ride the 72 miles around the lake, finishing at Heavenly Mountain Resort. This will be the third year the […]
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By Kathryn Reed Twenty years ago it was recommended that herbicides be used in the Tahoe Keys to rid the canals of invasive weeds. That reality is inching closer, but is still two years off at the earliest. No longer is it just Eurasian milfoil choking the waterways of this South Lake Tahoe neighborhood. Curlyleaf […]
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By Nicholas K. Geranios, AP The Western United States set records for low winter snowpack levels in 2015, and a new report blames high temperatures rather than low precipitation levels. Greenhouse gases appear to be a major contributor to the high temperatures, according to the study published Monday in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. Scientists […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe received 7.29 inches of rain in October. The average amount of precipitation for October is 1.8 inches at the airport. The National Weather Service in Reno did not have monthly precip records for South Lake, but said this year is bound to be in the top three. In Tahoe […]
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By Linda Fine Conaboy RENO – No child under the age of 18 should be allowed to play contact sports, forensic neuropathologist Bennet Omalu states in his clipped, fast-talking, often humorous manner. Ranging from one side of the stage to the other, without notes, he continues talking to an audience of nearly 1,000 who have […]
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By Ellen Knickmeyer, AP California water agencies that spent more than $350 million in the last two years of drought to pay property owners to rip out water-slurping lawns are now trying to answer whether the nation’s biggest lawn removal experiment was all worth the cost. Around the state, water experts and water-district employees are […]
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By Caroline Benner, High Country News At exactly 583.28 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border, along the Pacific Crest Trail, you will come upon Golden Oak Spring. Just shy of a mile later, the trail crosses a power line near a wind farm. A half-mile farther, a man named Lon Cooper, a retired information-technology professional […]
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By Kathryn Reed Signs don’t do much good if no one can read them, and recreation amenities don’t do much good without staff to manage and maintain them. Those were two of the overriding messages delivered this month by the South Lake Tahoe Parks and Recreation Commission to the City Council. Commissioner Scott Valentine, who […]
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By Nicole Raz, Las Vegas Review-Journal Amid Nevada’s economic slowdown between 2008 and 2013, the call center industry settled in the state. What it found was a gold mine of talented, unemployed labor. Most industry settlers came in the form of high-end call centers that require specialized training, boosting today’s average call center hourly wage […]
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