By Riley Snyder, AP Nevada school districts are opposing a bill that would push back school start times and require an ethnic studies course in order to graduate from high school. Democratic state Sen. Tick Segerblom is the primary sponsor of SB211 and testified on the bill Thursday in the Senate Education Committee. Segerblom said […]
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By Kate Schimel, High Country News In the midst of fighting a wildfire, predicting the future is a matter of tracking invisible forces: gust fronts, storms, air columns. While firefighters battle the flames on the ground, fire experts look for signs that the weather or the wildfire might shift. They follow storm tracks, watch weather […]
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By Greg Keller, AP “Selfie sticks” have now been banned at a French palace and a British museum, joining a growing list of global tourist attractions to take such measures. The devices are used to improve snapshots, but critics say they are obnoxious and potentially dangerous. Officials at Palace of Versailles outside Paris, and Britain’s […]
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By Tom Knudson, Reveal By now, the impacts of California’s unchecked groundwater pumping are well-known: the dropping water levels, dried-up wells and slowly sinking farmland in parts of the Central Valley. But another consequence gets less attention, one measured not by acre-feet or gallons-per-minute but the long march of time. As California farms and cities […]
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A South Lake Tahoe man accused of violating his parole is still on the loose. El Dorado County sheriff’s deputies and South Lake Tahoe police officers spent several hours Thursday night trying to track down the man who is in his early 30s. Deputies are not releasing his name for fear the publicity might chase […]
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By Associated Press Placer County has banned the use of electronic cigarettes within public buildings and inside county-owned vehicles. Supervisors voted unanimously for the restrictions during a meeting Tuesday where nobody spoke about the issue during public comment. The ordinance will take effect in late April. The use of electronic cigarettes, also known as “vaping,” […]
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By Kathryn Reed Abrasives put on roadways in the Lake Tahoe Basin are a huge contributor to the loss of lake clarity. That was one of the messages delivered to the Lahontan board on Thursday when staff gave an update about the total maximum daily load program. The TMDL is designed to keep fine sediment […]
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By Edna Curran, BloombergBusiness Book your holiday now, before a wave of 174 million Chinese tourists snap up the best bargains. Already the most prolific spenders globally, the number of Chinese outbound tourists is tipped to soar further as the millennial generation spreads its wings. Here are the numbers: 174 million Chinese tourists are tipped […]
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By Mark Anderson, Sacramento Business Journal A SpringHill Suites hotel project in Placerville that had a site plan approved years ago but went dormant after the economic downturn is again moving forward. The 124-room hotel proposal won approval in January 2010, but at the time the country was in the midst of the financial crisis. The […]
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South Lake Tahoe police officers and El Dorado County sheriff’s deputies have been looking for an at-large parolee since early Thursday evening. Reports are that the fugitive fled out a window at the Beverly Lodge in South Lake Tahoe on March 12 shortly after 5pm and then went to the parking lot as Lakeland Village. Officers have […]
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