By Dan Balz, Washington Post SAN DIEGO — Rick Snyder, the former Gateway executive who was just elected governor of Michigan, calls it the next big national issue, on a scale with health care in its importance to the economic vitality of the country. But unlike health care, this battle will be fought in the […]
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By Jessie Marchesseau It’s a snow day in South Lake Tahoe, and children busily put on jackets and hats as instructors at Under the Magic Pine Tree wrestle to pull snowpants onto the less cooperative little ones. Eight-year-old Corey Johnson sits on the floor cramming the bottoms of his gray snowpants into his boots. He […]
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In keeping with its mission of saving lives, the California Highway Patrol is reminding motorists the Thanksgiving holiday is also a Maximum Enforcement Period (MEP). The CHP’s holiday enforcement effort begins Nov. 24 at 6pm and continues through 11:59pm Nov. 28. Throughout the MEP all available officers will be looking for motorists who are a […]
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By Nick Anderson, Washington Post The nation’s high school seniors are performing slightly better in math and reading than they did in the middle of the last decade, new test results show, but a large majority continue to fall short of the federal standard for proficiency. Results from the 2009 National Assessment of Educational Progress, […]
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By Kathryn Reed Squaw Valley ski resort and the village have been bought by KSL Capital Partners LLC. This is the second Colorado company to buy a Lake Tahoe area ski resort in less than a month. Vail Resorts purchased Northstar-at-Tahoe from Booth Creek in October. Details of the sale of Squaw have not been […]
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Schools in Lake Tahoe Unified and Douglas County schools at the lake are closed today for a snow day. Morning classes at Lake Tahoe Community College are canceled. Check with the college at 11am to know if afternoon classes will be held. Tahoe Truckee Unified is open. LTUSD is out for the remainder of the […]
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By Kathryn Reed Normally before construction projects that impact pedestrians begin the first thing to be built is walkways for them. That didn’t happen in 2007 when ground was broken at the would-be convention center in South Lake Tahoe. Instead, walkers and cyclists are next to traffic without any barrier. City Manager Tony O’Rourke is […]
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Truckee Police Chief Nicholas Sensley led an international team to Juba, Sudan, earlier this month to initiate a national anti-corruption development program. At relative peace since 2005, Southern Sudan had been at civil war with Northern Sudan for 39 of the 54 years of the nation’s independence from England. PLI Global is a nonprofit leadership […]
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By Eric Ramsey, Poker News Lake Tahoe is in the midst of it’s heartiest November storm in nearly a decade, but that hasn’t kept the players away from the poker room this weekend. A very respectable 246 runners plodded through blizzard conditions (or walked downstairs from their suites) to get themselves registered for Day 1 […]
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By KDVR MINERAL COUNTY, Colo. — A ski patrol supervisor was killed in an avalanche at Wolf Creek Ski Area Monday morning, authorities said. The avalanche happened inside the boundaries of the ski area, which is located near Pagosa Springs in southern Colorado, at about 10:30 a.m. The area had received more than a foot […]
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