By BBC An additional 12,000 people who stayed at a remote campsite in California’s Yosemite National Park are at risk from the deadly hantavirus, officials warn. The warning comes as a West Virginian who visited the park in June became the third person to die from the virus. Eight cases have been confirmed so far. […]
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Publisher’s note: Sherwin Manalo and his brother, Ariel, and sister, Noreen, were all raised in South Lake Tahoe and graduated from South Tahoe High School. Sherwin Manalo was valedictorian of the class of 1993. By Bay City News Service A 37-year-old man who was killed in a crash on Highway 92 in Hayward on Monday […]
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South Lake Tahoe police have released the name of the person killed Aug. 14 after he was hit by a vehicle. Paul Plasencia, 49, of South Lake Tahoe died when he walking along Highway 50. — Lake Tahoe News staff report
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By Kathryn Reed El Dorado County voters on Nov. 6 will be asked if they want a countywide assessment that would tax people equally. The library system is divided into five zones, with all but one having passed a tax. That area is in the middle of the county, which includes Placerville, Pollock Pines and […]
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Updated: Sept. 6, 2012, 9:30pm. By Kathryn Reed The Lake Tahoe Educational Foundation appears to be helping South Lake Tahoe City Councilwoman Angela Swanson cover up a donation from Gino DiMatteo. Nancy Rollston, president of the nonprofit foundation, Swanson and DiMatteo met this summer at least once to discuss a donation by DiMatteo to the […]
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By Sean Whaley, Nevada News Bureau CARSON CITY – As Nevada policymakers work to ensure that ineffective teachers are removed from classrooms around the state, a report released this week provides evidence to support the use of test scores to measure how much individual teachers contribute to pupil achievement. Using quantitative measures to evaluate teachers, […]
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By Laura Bly, USA Today U.S. officials have warned travelers from 39 other countries, most in the European Union, that those who stayed in certain Yosemite National Park tent cabins earlier this summer may have been exposed to a rare but deadly mouse-borne hantavirus, a park service epidemiologist told Reuters Tuesday. Of the 10,000 people […]
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By Kathryn Reed TAHOE CITY – If the biomass facility that is proposed to be built between Truckee and Tahoe City comes to fruition, it will mean the U.S. Forest Service would be burning less material that is left over from fuel reduction projects. It also means energy will be created and put into the […]
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By NPR An estimated 14.9 percent of U.S. households — 17.9 million in total — “had difficulty” at some point last year getting food because they just didn’t have enough money or other resources, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported this morning. In 2010, 14.5 percent of households were similarly “food insecure” at some point, […]
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By Sam Stanton, Sacramento Bee Sharron Mankins, McGregor Scott and Bill Babbitt each have watched a man die inside the death chamber at San Quentin State Prison, and each has a strong view on whether voters should end California’s death penalty in November. Even after 20 years, Mankins has no regrets about watching Robert Alton […]
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