By Denise Grady, New York Times However bad you thought smoking was, it’s even worse. A new study adds at least five diseases and 60,000 deaths a year to the toll taken by tobacco in the United States. Before the study, smoking was already blamed for nearly half a million deaths a year in this […]
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Updated Feb. 15 11:45am: Sierra was able to operate on generators when the power failure occurred and never had to stop operations. Power was back on by 5am Sunday. —- An underground failure has knocked out power to residents and businesses in the Echo Summit area, including the upper lifts of Sierra-at-Tahoe. The outage started […]
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By John Schwartz, New York Times Nearly 8 million metric tons of plastic waste makes its way into the world’s oceans each year, and the amount of the debris is likely to increase greatly over the next decade unless nations take strong measures to dispose of their trash responsibly, research suggests. The report, which appeared in […]
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By Bill Theobald, Reno Gazette-Journal WASHINGTON – Six Reno-area hospitals are among 20 Nevada hospitals that will lose some federal funding this year because too many of their elderly Medicare patients were readmitted within 30 days of being discharged. This is the third year for the penalty program, which was created as part of the […]
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A man attempting to cross Ski Run Boulevard in South Lake Tahoe was killed Friday night. The name of the 44-year-old victim is not being released pending notification of family. A South Lake Tahoe police officer told Lake Tahoe News the Stateline resident was walking from between two parked cars near Larch Avenue into the traffic […]
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Most businesses in Truckee passed the test when it came to whether they would sell alcohol to a minor. Truckee police officers on Feb. 12 conducted a minor decoy program with 17-year-olds. “Our goal is to stop the accessibility of alcohol to minors and hopefully to greatly reduce underage drinking. It is not to trick […]
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Former South Lake Tahoe fire Capt. Mark WyGant pleaded not guilty Friday afternoon in U.S. District Court to charges related to child pornography. The 44-year-old Chico resident faces six charges involving sexual exploitation and attempted sexual exploitation of minors. Days after his Jan. 29 arrest he resigned from the department. A thumb drive with thousands of […]
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By Darryl Fears, Washington Post The long and severe drought in the U.S. Southwest pales in comparison with what’s coming: a “megadrought” that will grip that region and the central plains later this century and probably stay there for decades, a new study says. Thirty-five years from now, if the current pace of climate change […]
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By Eric Tucker, AP WASHINGTON — The United States is at a crossroads on matters of race relations and law enforcement, presenting “hard truths” that its citizens and police must confront, FBI Director James Comey said Thursday. Comey used a speech at Georgetown University to offer his most expansive take on a debate that has […]
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A federal grand jury on Feb. 12 indicted former South Lake Tahoe fire Capt. Mark WyGant on six counts regarding child pornography. The 44-year-old faces charges of sexual exploitation and attempted sexual exploitation of minors. WyGant remains in custody in Sacramento where he has been since being arrested Jan. 29. According to court documents, WyGant […]
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