By Lake Tahoe News staff Mental health, substance abuse and access to healthcare services are the main concerns of people on the South Shore, according to Barton Health’s 2015 Community Health Needs Assessment. Other issues to be addressed include: Alzheimer’s disease, cancer, heart disease and stroke, infant health, injury and violence, nutrition and weight, oral health, and tobacco […]
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By Gary Richards, San Jose Mercury News Gas prices may soon begin falling to levels not seen since the Great Recession in 2008 to under $2.50 a gallon in California and — gasp! — to below two bucks nationwide. That would be a pleasant shock on the West Coast, coming just two weeks after rising […]
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By J.D. Morris, Las Vegas Sun More than six months after a major division of Caesars Entertainment Corp. filed for bankruptcy, it’s still unclear exactly how the company will emerge on the other side. Caesars wants a Chicago bankruptcy court to approve a restructuring plan that could shed around $10 billion in debt from the […]
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By Kathryn Reed EMERALD BAY STATE PARK – An iconic gem of Lake Tahoe describes Vikingsholm as well as Helen Smith. Smith spent her first 14 summers staying at what is now a castle within the California State Parks system. At the time, it was the private summer residence of Lora Knight. Smith’s mother was […]
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By Daniel Rothberg, Las Vegas Sun NASA could soon be testing drones in Nevada airspace. As one of six designated drone test sites, the State of Nevada is in the process of securing a contract to host the agency while it researches unmanned aerial vehicles. Tom Wilczek, who works with the aerospace and defense industries […]
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By Avaneesh Pandey, International Business Times California — currently facing one of the worst droughts on record — has accumulated a rainfall “deficit” of about 20 inches since 2012, according to a new NASA study. In other words, the difference between actual rainfall in the state and the rainfall expected on average is now equivalent to […]
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By Kathryn Reed KIRKWOOD – Sitting at Emigrant Lake looking up at the granite cliffs that form part of the Kirkwood Mountain Resort boundary it’s easy to understand why the words steep and rugged are synonymous with this ski area. And this isn’t the super gnarly area of the Wood. Fortunately, hiking to Emigrant Lake […]
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By Teri Sforza, Orange County Register Within the span of only 11 years, the hole at the bottom of California’s state and local pension funds increased a staggering 3,046 percent. The monstrous growth of the gap between what public agencies have promised workers upon retirement and what they actually have – from $6.3 billion in […]
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By Gloria Dickie, High Country News USA Today earlier this week reported that U.S. wildfires were approaching “record levels.” The article pointed at the more than 5.5 million acres burned so far this season — second only to the summer in 2011, when just more than 6 million acres had burned by the end of July. […]
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Publisher’s note: This is one in a random series of stories about what it’s like to go through the South Tahoe Public Utility District turf buyback program. By Kathryn Reed House projects are never as simple as one would like them to be. They often mushroom into something larger than originally anticipated. Even removing sod has […]
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