By Paul Rogers, San Jose Mercury News Time is running out on a deal to secure the largest expansion of Yosemite National Park since 1939, and one man appears to be standing in the way: local congressman Tom McClintock. Declaring his distrust in the National Park Service, the tea party Republican from Granite Bay is […]
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By Kathryn Reed INCLINE VILLAGE – “Climate change is going to affect the whole world in a variety of fashions and most are negative.” That was the message Charles Goldman delivered to nearly 100 people on Tuesday night at the Tahoe Environmental Research Center. Goldman is a renowned limnologist who has been studying Lake Tahoe […]
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By Kyle Kim, Los Angeles Times Americans aren’t dying the way they used to. The data come from an article published by the New England Journal of Medicine, which combed through 200 years worth of its back issues to look into how Americans die. The article was originally published in 2012, but became a top […]
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By Matt Weiser, Sacramento Bee As if the drought isn’t enough to worry about, weather officials say California is likely to experience a hotter-than-normal summer this year, a phenomenon certain to add anxiety for water agencies and fire departments. Summer doesn’t officially begin until Saturday. But the heat already is scorching the record books, as […]
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By Kathryn Reed While South Lake Tahoe’s financial viability is precarious, the City Council on Tuesday agreed that investing in recreation must happen if the city is going to be on stable footing. City Manager Nancy Kerry started a 3½ -hour workshop on June 17 by outlining where the city is today in regards to […]
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By Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times MARKLEEVILLE — Tess Castle, drinking a mid-afternoon pint at the Wolf Creek Restaurant & Bar on a recent afternoon, admitted something she had never told anyone before: She doesn’t vote. “Shame on you. I didn’t know that,” said bartender Danea McAvoy, 51, after selling lottery tickets to tourists passing […]
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By CBS News The number of whooping cough cases throughout California has reached epidemic proportions, state health officials said Friday. The California Department of Public Health said in a statement released Friday that more than 800 cases of whooping cough, also known as pertussis, have been reported over the past two weeks. As of June […]
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Publisher’s note: This is the second of two stories about El Dorado County’s pioneer cemeteries. “As you walk through these burial grounds, walk softly, quietly, and with deep respect. The Pioneer Spirit is sleeping here. The spirit which founded a nation of freedom, and tamed the west.” — “Burial Grounds of El Dorado County, 1849-“, […]
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By Mike Stobbe, Washington Post NEW YORK — American teens are smoking less, drinking less and fighting less. But they’re texting behind the wheel and spending a lot of time on video games and computers, according to the government’s latest study of worrisome behavior. Generally speaking, the news is good. Most forms of drug use, […]
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By David Siders and Jeremy B. White, Sacramento Bee California lawmakers approved a $156.4 billion state budget Sunday, rushing to pass legislation less than six hours before the constitutional deadline. The spending plan, a compromise between Gov. Jerry Brown and the Legislature’s Democratic majority, includes more money for high-speed rail, Medi-Cal and welfare-to-work, and an […]
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