By Kathryn Reed Lake Tahoe Community College’s soccer teams won’t play their first games until next fall, but already enrollment is up because of the program. Many of the players who have played for Ben Wade at Lassen Community College in Susanville are transferring to the South Lake Tahoe school. They want to be with […]
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By Tracy Seipel, San Jose Mercury News If you’re a Medicare-age Democrat lucky enough to live near the coast, life in the Golden State looks pretty good. But if you’re younger, among California’s dwindling number of registered Republicans or hail from an inland county, not so much. Those are the results of a Field Poll […]
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By Katarina Gustafsson and Matthew Boyle, Bloomberg It’s snowing. The children laugh and prance through the woods. Dad fells the perfect fir and carries it home over his shoulder. The family sings carols and drinks cocoa as they happily decorate the tree. That yuletide dream, peddled by Hallmark cards and Lifetime movies, is as believable […]
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By Kathryn Reed Increasing the allowable coverage by 33 percent for parking at Tahoe Keys Marina will require shifting the entrance of Cove East about 20 feet closer to the Upper Truckee River. The California Tahoe Conservancy board on Dec. 12 agreed to allow the marina to cover up to 60,000-square-feet of the nearly 1.5-acre […]
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By Karen Weise, Bloomberg A century after William Mulholland’s Los Angeles aqueduct first began watering the Southland, the water wars in California show no sign of abating. The state reached a milestone on Monday in its effort to balance equal-but-conflicting goals: channeling more water to dry farmland and cities while restoring the natural habitat already […]
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By David Siders, Sacramento Bee Officials in Siskiyou and Modoc counties may want to secede from California, but the rest of the state has no desire to see them go. Just one-quarter of California voters support allowing the state’s northernmost counties to break away from California, according to a new Field Poll. Fifty-nine percent of […]
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By Kathryn Reed Build the bike path that would link Meyers to Stateline. That was the idea that received the largest number of votes from the more than 50 people who attended a recreation meeting Dec. 11 at South Tahoe High School. Consultants putting together the South Lake Tahoe-El Dorado County Recreation Master Plan wanted […]
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By Maanvi Singh, NPR Avery Stackhouse, age 7, of Lafayette, says he wishes he had more time for phys ed. “We just have it one day a week — on Monday.” There’s always lunch and recess, he says. “We play a couple of games, like football and soccer,” he tells Shots. But at Happy Valley […]
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By Rob Lovitt, NBC News Skiers and snowboarders searching for “the steep and deep” this winter may find that the concept has taken on a much less appealing connotation: The price of the sport is getting so steep that some believe it may be becoming the exclusive domain of those whose pockets are exceedingly deep. […]
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By Kathryn Reed With Lakeview Commons still in its infancy, South Lake Tahoe officials are struggling to figure just what it should be. While the agenda topic Tuesday at the council meeting was to recap the summer concert series run by Rob and CarolAnne Giustina of OnCourse Events, much of the talk was about what […]
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