By Kathryn Reed KINGS BEACH – Construction on a multi-million electrical upgrade of Liberty Utilities lines in the North Shore-Truckee area is expected to start this summer. There was a brief tense moment Thursday morning at the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency Governing Board when it looked like the project was not going to be approved. […]
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The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency on April 23 approved the permit for the new home of the Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care facility. Preliminary work like cleaning up the lot started earlier this month on the new home for Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care. Turner and Associates employees surveyed the property and placed stakes showing the outlines of […]
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By Lee Traupel, Huffington Post Every traveler begins her journey with a complex web of connections, coupled with dreams of blue skies, unlimited horizons, fair weather and unlimited upgrades. But, as in everything in life, risk and reward live together and in this complex fine print driven world we all live and travel in the […]
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By Kathryn Reed Park City is being held up as the latest poster child of tourism for the South Shore to emulate. The theme of the ninth annual South Shore Tourism Forum was economic and community revitalization. Instead of a to-do list for the South Shore it was more of a tutorial on what the […]
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By Kyle Roerink, Las Vegas Sun CARSON CITY — For Democratic Sen. Tick Segerblom, Tuesday yielded a victory five sessions in the making. Senate lawmakers passed into the Assembly a tax measure, SB 252, that’s backed by GOP Gov. Brian Sandoval that would annually raise $430 million to fund education and other programs. The rub […]
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By Kathryn Reed A multi-pronged approach is being taken to speed up the process of laying down the Greenway Bike Trail on the South Shore as well as improve other recreation amenities and the connection between areas. California Tahoe Conservancy, the lead agency in the Meyers to Stateline trail, is working with South Lake Tahoe […]
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By Jeremy B. White, Sacramento Bee Nick Johansen arrived at a Capitol hearing on vaccinations last week carrying a Bible. Johansen, who said he hasn’t yet decided whether to vaccinate his 10-month-old daughter Savannah, argued government shouldn’t impose a reverence for science over his faith in God. Senate Bill 277, a bitterly contested California bill […]
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By Nick Anderson, Washington Post In its first few years, the Obama administration played a major role in higher education as the nation’s economy was foundering. The expansion of Pell grants for students in financial need, the provision of billions of dollars in stimulus funding for university research and other purposes, an overhaul of federal […]
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By Kathryn Reed Walking in they didn’t say much. They were timid, shy and apprehensive. They didn’t want to say the wrong thing. When English isn’t your first language it’s easy to feel intimidated about speaking to others who have spoken it their entire lives. But not communicating can be detrimental in the work environment […]
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By Scott Sonner, AP United in their belief wild horses should remain free to roam public rangeland across the West, groups working to protect the mustangs are increasingly at odds over whether contraception should play a role in the decades-old dispute over efforts to reign in the natural size of the herds. The American Wild […]
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