By Ryan Jaslow, CBS Nutrition fact labels are finally undergoing a makeover. The Food and Drug Administration has proposed new changes to labels on food packaging that are aimed at making them easier to understand — the first major update since about 1994. Under the changes, serving sizes will be made easier to understand, calories […]
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By Bethany Clough, Fresno Bee The California Restaurant Association urged restaurants Wednesday to conserve water as the state deals with a historic drought, including only serving water to customers upon their request. Local association representatives say there’s even more that restaurants can do, despite an existing emphasis on water conservation learned in past droughts. Many […]
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By Kathryn Reed A greenbelt going behind McDonald’s and CVS at the Y in South Lake Tahoe. Another on the other side of Highway 50. Both being multidimensional by being stormwater basins, greenways and recreation conduits. Those are ideas being floated in the Tahoe Valley Area Plan. More than 60 people interested in what South […]
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By Kathryn Reed Maybe the Department of Water Resources ought to schedule snow surveys more often because snow fell each of the last two times. While every drop of moisture helps, California is not likely to get out of its drought this season. Still, things are slightly improved, but still worrisome. Statewide, the water content […]
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By Kathryn Reed A million dollar truck is rolling around South Lake Tahoe. It’s the fire department’s ladder truck. The old ladder truck was so decrepit it was taken out of service in 2012. The city has possession of the new one, but a few things still need to be done before it hits the […]
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By Kathryn Reed MEYERS – “The catalyst project is dead. You have my word on it. If you want, I’ll put it in writing.” That’s how El Dorado County Supervisor Norma Santiago started Wednesday night’s meeting about the Meyers Area Plan. It ended with local resident Steve Bannar pointing out the good aspects of Meyers, […]
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By Ruben Vives, Los Angeles Times A cache of 19th century gold coins uncovered by a California couple on their daily walk could end up selling for more than $10 million, making it the greatest buried treasure ever unearthed in the United States, experts said. Donald Kagin, president of Kagin’s Inc., a numismatic firm that […]
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By Laila Kearney, Reuters NASA scientists plan to use images shot from space and within the Earth’s atmosphere to help California monitor one of the worst droughts in its recorded history, officials said on Tuesday. Scientists said they would deploy imaging tools to measure snowpack and groundwater levels and use a host of other technologies […]
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By Kathryn Reed No was not a word people who wanted a community college in South Lake Tahoe were willing to embrace. Their tenacity paid off and this year Lake Tahoe Community College District is celebrating its 40th year. As Los Rios Community College District was forming in the 1950s there was a push to […]
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By Steve Tetreault and Howard Stutz, Las Vegas Review Journal WILMINGTON, Del. – The governors of Nevada and Delaware signed an agreement Tuesday morning that join their states in a partnership for online poker. Documents signed by Gov. Brian Sandoval of Nevada and Gov. Jack Markell of Delaware established a legal framework for the first […]
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