By Kathryn Reed Lake Tahoe is often well represented in the Winter Olympics. Expect nothing less in 2014. Today, 25 athletes are vying to be part of the Games that are in Russia Feb. 7-23. Some are household names – especially for those who live in the basin and follow skiing and snowboarding, while other […]
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By Tiffany Hsu, Los Angeles Times Count on coal this Christmas. That’s what researchers at Morgan Stanley are saying in the first major forecast of a decidedly dour holiday season. Retailers hoping for a respite from a year of so-so shopping can instead expect the worst Thanksgiving-to-Christmas sales since 2008, the financial services firm said […]
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By Ralph Maughan After almost every large wildfire or fires that do significant damage to structures, people ask for proactive measures. The desire for this is rational. It needs no explanation. Officeholders usually respond, verbally at least. Politicians’ solutions, however, are often useless. One reason is lack of knowledge, but probably as often they have […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – While it’s mostly tourists whom search and rescue teams help, it isn’t always live bodies that are carried out of the wilderness. Domino is brought in to assist with avalanche and cadaver calls. Through their dog is how Scott and Heather Longoria got involved with the El Dorado County Search […]
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By Adam Nagourney and Rick Lyman, New York Times LOS ANGELES — In the heart of Northern California’s marijuana growing region, the sheriff’s office is inundated each fall with complaints about the stench of marijuana plots or the latest expropriation of public land by growers. Its tranquil communities have been altered by the emergence of […]
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By Katharine Mieszkowski, Center for Investigative Reporting Each month, the U.S. Department of Agriculture publishes a list calling out chicken processing plants across the country that have failed salmonella testing. Notably absent from its October report: the three Foster Farms plants in Central California that have been linked to a virulent outbreak. Those facilities in […]
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By Kathryn Reed Barton Health has been on a bit of a property buying spree as well as deep into plans to be more energy efficient. The South Lake Tahoe health care system just closed escrow on four buildings on Emerald Bay Road, two of which the organization was renting. One is used for Barton […]
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By David Wharton and Sergei L. Loiko, Los Angeles Times MOSCOW — Clouds of dust. Piles of rubble. Muddy roads and construction sites. Oleg Rubezhansky looks around Sochi and says: “We live like in a besieged town during the war.” His Russian city is not under attack, it is scrambling to finish preparations for the […]
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By Jan Hoffman, New York Times Because of heightened awareness about the hazards of sports-related concussions, many states have implemented standards determining when an injured student may resume playing contact sports. But only a few states have begun to address how and when a student should resume classwork. On Sunday the American Academy of Pediatrics […]
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By Jessie Marchesseau I know very little about hockey other than players wear ice skates and try to hit a little black puck into the net with sticks that resemble oversized golf clubs. However, after attending the Lake Tahoe Blue game against the Long Beach Bombers last weekend, I realized something else about hockey: you […]
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