By Phillip Reese, Sacramento Bee More California kindergartners are getting their vaccinations before starting school, curbing a decadelong trend of falling immunization rates, new state figures show. The shift comes as California experiences one of its worst whooping-cough outbreaks in generations. Health experts said several prior years of lax immunization primed the state for such […]
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By Ana Ley and Amber Phillips, Las Vegas Sun When President Obama gave Astrid Silva a shout-out last month, he did more than put a face on his new immigration plan. He helped thrust Silva, and her home state of Nevada, into the national spotlight on immigration reform. She has since used her political fame to […]
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Fire investigators are still trying to figure out how a tree falling onto a Tahoe City house started a fire Thursday morning. “A tree fell through the house, hit the bed where someone was sleeping in the bed, moved the bed a few feet, and miraculously did not hurt anybody,” Dave Zaski with North Tahoe […]
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By Ted Lipien, Eco Truckee The proposal to build 112 multimillion-dollar luxury homes in a likely gated community at the top of the ridgeline of Lake Tahoe was clearly horrifying to dozens of residents who came to a meeting in Truckee on Dec. 9 to discuss strategies for opposing the proposed development by East West Partners. Participants […]
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Updated 9:50am Lake Tahoe Unified School District is closed today even though there is only a dusting of snow on the South Shore. This decision was made Thursday during the chaos of the power outage. Some people were left wondering how organized the district is in the event of an emergency. Zephyr Cove Elementary school […]
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By Kathryn Reed Young, active, outdoorsy and practically a native. Those are some of the attributes of the next lieutenant to run the Lake Tahoe office of the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office. “I don’t really foresee changes,” Lt. Matt Underhill told Lake Tahoe News. “I want to continue the legacy of Les (Lovell) and […]
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Uodated 8:25pm: There are 3,500 customers in the Sierra Tract area without power. Liberty Utilities has no idea when power will be restored. Updated 7:15pm: The lines are in the air and power to the South Lake Tahoe-Meyers area should be restored any minute, according to LIberty Utilities. By Kathryn Reed A tree more than 200-feet […]
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By Jonnelle Marte, Washington Post Americans are feeling more grim about their debt. Nearly one in five consumers with loans said they think they will never be able to finish paying off their debt, according to survey released Wednesday by CreditCards.com. That is double the nine percent who said they felt that way last year. […]
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By Trevon Milliard, Las Vegas Review-Journal Nevada is one of 18 states splitting $226 million in federal grants to develop public preschool programs in 2014, according to an announcement by the U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in a press call Tuesday. Half of the 36 states […]
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Smoke that is visible on Spooner Summit and the Twin Peaks area near Sawmill Pond is from controlled burns operated by the U.S. Forest Service. “Please be assured that Forest Service crews are monitoring these and other areas and all of our prescribed fires are under control,” Lisa Herron with the USFS said in a […]
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