By Kathryn Reed After two years of silence, El Dorado County has released the final draft of the Meyers Area Plan. This is the fourth version. It was almost like all sides needed a cooling off period. Years of raucous meetings did more to divide than to unite the community. What most could agree on […]
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By Dan Elliott, AP Acrid yellow smoke clogs the skies of major Western U.S. cities, a human-caused fire in the Columbia River Gorge rains ash on Portland, Oregon, and a century-old backcountry chalet burns to the ground in Montana’s Glacier National Park. Wildfires are chewing across dried-out Western forests and grassland, putting 2017 on track […]
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By Michelle Robertson, San Francisco Chronicle At 24 years old, Ben Hunter is a homeowner, but a sizable portion of his paycheck goes to rent for a room in an 11-person house in San Francisco. That’s because the home he owns is located about 3,000 miles east, in Atlantic City, N.J. About 35 percent of […]
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By Kathryn Reed Zephyr Cove Tennis Club will be hosting its first national tournament next week – the USTA National Husband Wife Hard Court Championships. Each year there are four main husband-wife events played on a different surface: hardcourt, grass, clay and indoors. And like the pros, if a couple were to win them all, […]
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By Associated Press Vast stands of dead timber in the Western U.S. have forced firefighters to shift tactics, trying to stay out of the shadow of lifeless, unstable trees that could come crashing down with deadly force. About 6.3 billion dead trees are still standing in 11 Western states, up from 5.8 billion five years […]
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By Dale Kasler and Ryan Sabalow Wildfires from the Oregon border to Los Angeles. Temperatures hitting 100 degrees in San Francisco, and higher in Sacramento, capping off the hottest summer in California history. Not to mention two of the most ferocious hurricanes ever recorded. It has to be climate change, right? The answer is a […]
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By Kathryn Reed Those who run the South Shore bus system and those who use it know it’s a bumpy ride, at least figuratively. No longer using the never understood BlueGo name, the Tahoe Transportation District is just calling the system by the government body’s name. New buses have the TTD logo and color scheme. […]
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By Tanya Mohn, Forbes High-tech, health and engineering are among the fields people typically think about when it comes to robust workforce opportunities, but travel is one of the most potent job creators of any American industry. In this country, workers who began their careers in travel and tourism achieved higher peak salary than most […]
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By Alexei Koseff, Sacramento Bee When State University of New York and City University of New York students return to campus this fall, tens of thousands of low-income undergraduates will pay no tuition under a new scholarship program. Rhode Island will also begin to cover tuition for nearly all recent high school graduates entering the […]
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By Jeff DeFranco Lake Tahoe Community College joins the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office and Chancellor Eloy Ortiz Oakley in denouncing the White House’s action on Tuesday to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The program protects 800,000 immigrant youth who were brought to the United States by their parents from deportation, […]
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