By Michael Birnbaum, Washington Post ROTTERDAM — In this traffic-packed Dutch city, electric cars jostle for space at charging stations. The oldest exhaust-spewing vehicles will soon be banned from the city center. Thanks to generous tax incentives, the share of electric vehicles has grown faster in the Netherlands than in nearly any other country in […]
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By Mae Anderson, AP If the beginning of the holiday season is any indication, it could be a merry mobile Christmas for shoppers. For the first time, there’s expected to be more people visiting retailers’ websites through their smartphones than on desktop computers or tablets during the first weekend of the holiday shopping season that […]
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Douglas County students at the lake will be picked up at the main bus stops today. Lake Tahoe Community College is open as normal. Lake Tahoe Unified and Tahoe Truckee Unified school districts, and Incline Village schools were already closed Wednesday for the Thanksgiving break. A winter weather advisory remains in effect for the Lake […]
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By Carina Storrs, CNN Throughout the ages, coffee has been called a virtue and a vice for our health. The latest study comes down in favor of virtue: It says that drinking coffee, whether regular or decaf, could reduce the risk of death. Researchers started with data from surveys of adults in the United States […]
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By Guy Kovner, Santa Rosa Press Democrat As California prepares to bring in the $1 billion medical marijuana industry from the legal shadows, growers and marketers on the pot-rich North Coast are waiting to see how much the massive regulatory structure will cost them and whether to stick instead with the prosperous but risky outlaw status […]
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By Kathryn Reed Jeremy Meyers, the disgraced former superintendent of El Dorado County Office of Education, is receiving more than seven months worth of severance – aka taxpayer money. The attorney for the district, David Girard, did not return multiple calls or an email asking how this is not a gift of public funds. Lake […]
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Meyers resident Mikey Sheehan died Nov. 21 from injuries he sustained in a vehicle accident the week before. Sheehan was driving by himself Nov. 14 in Truckee on Highway 89 south of Sagehen when his vehicle drifted off the side of the road for unknown reasons. The vehicle rolled and he was ejected, according to the […]
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By Brian K. Sullivan, BloombergBusiness The drought relief for California widely expected from El Nino in early 2016 will be far more effective if a chill descends soon — ideally with a bit of snow. “If we can get some snow on the ground and some cold nights, it will set up the snowpack and […]
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Two men accused of staging an armed home invasion on the West Slope have been arrested. Sacramento County sheriff’s deputies arrested Deshawn Stone and Jeremy Ross, both 21, on Nov. 20 at about 6:30pm. Deputies said the men were armed with loaded firearms. They were booked on weapons and drug charges. Some of the property from the Nov. […]
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By Kathryn Reed CARSON CITY – The pile of dirt at the end of Spooner Summit in Carson City never seems to change. Grown men in what look like life-size Tonka trucks move it around, and yet, it still seems to stay the same. For 16 hours a day, six days a week, dirt moves […]
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