By Toogee Sielsch DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK – “It’s your call Ian. Do you want to spend the night around here and check out Scotty’s Castle in the morning, or should we drive the 27 more miles on dirt roads, in the dark, and check out that Racetrack thing in the morning?” “Racetrack!(?)” Ian replies. […]
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By J.D. Morris, Las Vegas Sun Next year, the number of people employed in Nevada’s leisure and hospitality sector could return to the highest level it had reached before the recession hit. Since falling to a low point of slightly fewer than 304,000 employees in November 2009, the state’s leisure and hospitality labor force has […]
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Publisher’s note: Lake Tahoe News asked the seven South Lake Tahoe City Council candidates a series of questions. All are the same except for one that is specific to each candidate. The responses are being run in the order LTN received them. Name: Tom Davis Profession/work experience: Director of General Services for Heavenly Ski Resort; […]
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By Rebecca Klein, Huffington Post Closing the achievement gap between low-income and affluent students could be as simple as do-re-mi. In a study out Tuesday from Northwestern University, researchers looked at the impact of music education on at-risk children’s nervous systems and found that music lessons could help them develop language and reading skills. The […]
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By Brigid Schulte, Washinton Post The iconic 1950s family of the breadwinner father going off to work and caregiving mother taking care of the homefront, has been described by economists as the most efficient family structure. Everyone has a distinct job to do in their “separate spheres” of public and private life. And in the […]
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By Kathryn Reed A diploma doesn’t mean much if you don’t have any skills that translate to the working world. That is why Mount Tallac High School is changing its emphasis. All the basics are still being taught at South Lake Tahoe’s continuation school. But now there is a focus on making the instruction more […]
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By Sharon Bernstein, Reuters SACRAMENTO — The Pacific Ocean phenomenon called El Nino, which can lead to storms in the U.S. Southwest and other places, will likely start soon, but may not bring hoped-for relief to drought-parched California, U.S. government meteorologists said on Thursday. Scientists with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said in a […]
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By Paloma Esquivel and Sandra Poindexter, Los Angeles Times California parents are deciding against vaccinating their kindergarten-age children at twice the rate they did seven years ago, a fact public health experts said is contributing to the reemergence of measles across the state and may lead to outbreaks of other serious diseases. The percentage of […]
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By Kathryn Reed Part of the U.S. Forest Service’s nearly $5 million restoration of its section of the Upper Truckee River includes relocating 12,000 Western pearlshell mussels. This summer 10 percent of the mollusks are being plucked from the river’s bottom, weighed, measured and tagged, then put in coolers before being relocated to other sections […]
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By Kathryn Reed On a 3-2 vote Thursday afternoon, the South Tahoe Public Utility District board approved a three-year contract for employees that calls for raises of at least 6 percent and up to 9 percent in that time period. Voting no were Chris Cefalu and Randy Vogelgesang. “I can do the 2 percent cost […]
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