By Olivia Allen-Price, KQED-TV For the first time in the 15-year history of the National Weather Service Drought Monitor, 100 percent of California is judged to be in moderate to exceptional drought. It’s a dramatic-sounding milestone, although the state has been lingering at the 99.8 percent mark since March 18. Though it’s a first for […]
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By Kathryn Reed “When you pick up the phone and hear screaming, you know it’s not going to be a good call.” Those are the words of a South Lake Tahoe dispatcher. It’s something they deal with around the clock, seven days a week. But then there are the calls from people wanting to know […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe voters are open to spending money on infrastructure, but they don’t want to foot the entire bill. The city submitted a few questions for a recent survey that Lake Tahoe Community College contracted for in regards to its proposed general obligation bond. The city paid for 25 percent of […]
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Upgrading the trails around Fallen Leaf Lake and creating new ones could take five years, with the first phase beginning next week. This summer a new bike path from Fallen Leaf Campground to the Pope Baldwin Bike Path will be built. (The latter trail is better known as the Camp Rich paved path.) Several trails […]
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By Kathryn Reed Changing the world one bar of soap at a time. That is the goal of four Chapman University students, including 2013 South Tahoe High School graduate John Cefalu. The four (Max Wysong, Ajay Dhameja and Daniel Cruz) have formed the nonprofit Health 2 Humanity to help orphans in Africa. They have created […]
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By John Brennan, New Jersey Record On any given Sunday, Mike Azzaro — or mikeycasino, as he’s known online — will travel from his home in Yonkers, N.Y., to a Ramsey hotel room for the night. The reason is not glamorous, but it is profitable: Azzaro, 27, is a professional poker player. Of the online […]
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By Edward Ortiz, Sacramento Bee California’s drought is imperiling tricolored blackbirds, large trees and native fish, with some of the affected species already on the state’s endangered list and others likely headed there because of rapidly declining numbers, scientists say. “The problems created by the drought are just a harbinger of things to come,” said […]
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By Kathryn Reed Cal-OSHA officials were at Tahoe Keys Marina earlier this month looking to see if the South Lake Tahoe facility is in compliance. It’s not. “We are working on getting all of our forklifts and equipment up to standard,” a marina employee who didn’t want to be named told Lake Tahoe News. “We […]
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By David Leonhardt and Kevin Quealy, New York Times The American middle class, long the most affluent in the world, has lost that distinction. While the wealthiest Americans are outpacing many of their global peers, a New York Times analysis shows that across the lower- and middle-income tiers, citizens of other advanced countries have received […]
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By Sam Stanton, Sacramento Bee The California Supreme Court has left intact a lower-court ruling that invalidates local ordinances aimed at restricting the movements of registered sex offenders in dozens of cities statewide. The court’s decision Wednesday not to hear a case involving a Southern California sex offender means city and county ordinances banning such […]
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