By Kathryn Reed Owning a vacation rental may be a luxury, but it is also a business. And for most people, they would prefer a middleman handle the business end. That’s why property management firms became so popular. The industry for a time had become static, but now it is growing and changing. With about […]
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By Associated Press A Lake Tahoe animal shelter has provided a new lease on life to another litter of puppies left for dead in a trash bin. Volunteers at the Pet Network Humane Society in Incline Village have nursed back to health seven pups abandoned in Susanville, California, only a couple days after they were […]
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By Melissa Santos, News Tribune A team at Washington State University is working to develop a breath test that could quickly determine whether a driver is under the influence of marijuana. Law enforcement officers already use preliminary breath tests in the field to estimate drivers’ blood alcohol content. But no similar portable tool exists to […]
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By Hiroko Tabuchinov, New York Times Have Americans finally had enough of Black Friday madness? Sales, both in stores and online, from Thanksgiving through the weekend were estimated to have dropped 11 percent, to $50.9 billion, from $57.4 billion last year, according to preliminary survey results released Sunday by the National Retail Federation. Sales fell […]
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By Irin Carmon, MSNBC What does Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts think about Gamergate? How seriously does Justice Clarence Thomas take Facebook rants? And will Justice Anthony Kennedy’s First Amendment enthusiasms extend to rap lyrics? All of these intriguing questions are on the table at the nation’s highest court Monday morning with oral argument […]
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By Carl Zimmer, New York Times The future of bees may depend on understanding their past. Bees are in trouble, any entomologist will tell you. Honeybee colonies in the United States have suffered devastating losses in recent years. But colony collapse disorder, as it’s called, affects only the species kept in beehives — the European […]
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By Scott Sonner, AP RENO — Uber Technologies’ legal battle with Nevada’s highly regulated taxi industry over Internet ride-sharing may be headed back to the political arena now that a judge has at least temporarily banned Uber’s unlicensed operations statewide. Whether his restraining order put the brakes on an unregulated transportation service, or pulled the […]
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Lake Tahoe News asked South Lake Tahoe Fire Chief Jeff Meston about staffing issues at station two. Here is his response: “Fire station two has two personnel assigned to it; a shift commander whose role is to provide 24-hour dedicated supervision to the on-duty resources, provide for consistency, safety and accountability for daily crew assignments […]
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By Peter Hecht, Sacramento Bee El Dorado County voters just rejected three growth-control initiatives amid a $1 million dollar opposition campaign funded by developer and real estate interests. Yet a ballot sequel already looms for 2016 as voters, once again, will consider measures restricting development in the Sierra foothills county. Two other citizen-backed measures, which […]
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By Michael Melia, AP HARTFORD, Conn. — Foxwoods, the largest casino resort in North America, is reducing its number of slot machines and table games to free up space for nightclubs and other new attractions as it adapts to fierce competition, the new CEO said in an interview with The Associated Press. It’s a transition […]
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