Neva Roberts, who served on the South Lake Tahoe City Council from 1982-90, died Aug. 26. The 79-year-old was most recently living in Reno. She had health issues for several years. Ms. Robert’s two terms on the council were significant because this is when redevelopment was just beginning. Her tenure was during the time the […]
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By Chris Rose The progress made on Lake Tahoe’s restoration over the last 20 years required significant capital investment from the public and private sectors. While the federal Bureau of Land Management does not manage any lands in the Tahoe basin, the agency has played an instrumental role in funding and coordinating the federal share […]
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By Maura Dolan, Los Angeles Times A federal appeals court decided by a 2-1 vote Friday that Jaycee Lee Dugard, who was kidnapped as a child from a bus stop in Meyers and held by a parolee for 18 years, cannot hold federal parole officials liable for failing to supervise her abductor. “Phillip Garrido, a […]
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By Kathryn Reed Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump spent the better part of Friday in Nevada, with Tahoe being part of his itinerary. He landed at Lake Tahoe Airport at 6:50pm after being in Las Vegas. This was nearly an hour after a private fundraiser started in his honor at Harrah’s Lake Tahoe. His trek […]
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By Seth A. Richardson, Reno Gazette-Journal Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump doesn’t have a lot of clout in Nevada’s political circles. He didn’t gain any major endorsements during the caucus and has raised only a paltry sum in the state compared to Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, but he has found a friend: Nevada Republican […]
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By KPIX-TV It’s been a beautiful summer at Lake Tahoe, but the buzz is that vacationers aren’t the only ones enjoying the water. Yellow jackets are all over the place. They’re aggressive, fast and much more active than they were last year. “Really, it’s a bad year, I mean everyone is closing their patio dining,” […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – A healthy forest is the best deterrent to stop the bark beetle infestation. The problem is Tahoe forests aren’t healthy. “We have seen this march of dead trees grow through the summer,” Joanne Marchetta, Tahoe Regional Planning Agency executive director, told her board this week. Orange is becoming a dominant […]
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By Joy Resmovits, Los Angeles Times California’s graduating class of 2016 outperformed peers on the ACT college-entrance test nationally across all four subject areas, according to a report released by the test company Wednesday. Nationwide, students had an average overall score of 20.8 out of 36 on the test of English, math, reading and science. California students, on average, earned […]
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By Trevon Milliard, Reno Gazette-Journal For the first time in Nevada history, all students in this year’s high school graduating class took the ACT so schools could gauge their success in college preparation. And the results aren’t good. Only 11 percent of the 32,261 students scored high enough to be considered ready for college-level courses, […]
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Publisher’s note: This is one in a series of stories about the National Park Service, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2016. All articles may be found via the Home Page, select Special Projects, then National Park Service 100th. By Joann Eisenbrandt I grew up loving Yosemite. I first went there in the 1950s, […]
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