By Danielle Priem For years, the nation’s pediatric experts have advised parents to ban screens before age 2 and limit older kids to two hours daily. These rules from the American Academy of Pediatrics, however, date to 2011—just after the release of the first iPad. Now, 30 percent of kids touch their first screen while […]
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Cali is a 10-year-old calico girl who came to the shelter when her owner went into a nursing home. She is beautiful, soft and sweet, with pretty long hair. She qualifies for our seniors for seniors discount. Cali has been at the shelter for almost two months and would love to go to her new […]
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By Paul Szydelko, Las Vegas Sun Those who are adept at avoiding zombies improve their chances to win in one of the skill-based games expected to be introduced on Las Vegas casino floors early next year. Games of chance continue to dominate casino action, but games in which skill plays a factor, an effort to […]
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“Elements of spirit” is what artist Gareth Curtiss calls the figures leaping from the flames toward the ring of glory. He has been commissioned to create the art piece that will be the focal point of South Lake Tahoe’s Champions Plaza near El Dorado Beach. While the sculptures he presented at the City Council […]
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By Linda Fine Conaboy RENO – As Gloria Steinem, a diminutive figure clad in black and surprisingly glamorous for a woman of 82, glided onstage at UNR’S Nightingale Hall, the packed house erupted with noise, clapping loudly as they all rose as one body and awarded her a Nevada-style welcome fit for a queen. To […]
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By Kathryn Reed If only it were as easy to concoct a cure for cancer, as it is to mix a cocktail to raise funds for the expansion of Barton Health’s cancer wellness program. The cancer program is free for people living in the South Shore area; funding comes from donations. The goal is to […]
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Publisher’s note: Lake Tahoe News asked candidates for South Lake Tahoe City Council, Lake Tahoe Community College, Lake Tahoe Unified School District, Douglas County School District, South Tahoe Public Utility District and Lake Valley Fire Protection District a series of questions. We are running the responses in the order received. All profiles may be found […]
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By Elizabeth Zach, High Country News As a young infectious diseases physician in San Francisco in the 1990s, Javeed Siddiqui could easily treat local patients suffering from HIV. As drugs became more effective, he would often simply need to check in with his patients, ask how they were doing both physically and emotionally, and refill […]
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By Jenny Kane, Reno Gazette-Journal Whether it comes to sports or outdoors or style, there always seems to be a line drawn in the sand between Nevada’s North and South. When it comes to art, however, that line is beginning to fade. The Reno-based Nevada Museum of Art in the past year has made it clear that it is […]
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By John M. Glionna, Las Vegas Review-Journal BAKER — In 1977, when Highway 50 was still the road less traveled, just another anonymous stretch of asphalt traversing the American West, Denys Koyle’s life took an unpredictable turn. At age 28, she moved her young family from Huntington Beach, California, to this windblown frontier town on […]
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