By Neela Banerjee, Los Angeles Times Fewer than half of American states are working to protect themselves from climate change, despite more detailed warnings from scientists that communities are already being damaged, according to a new online clearinghouse of states’ efforts compiled by the Georgetown Climate Center. Fourteen states have plans to prepare for the […]
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By KXTV A person was killed in a head-on crash in Pollock Pines Saturday afternoon. The two vehicles crashed just after noon on Mormon Emigrant Trail, south of Sly Park Road, the California Highway Patrol said. Read the whole story
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By Amber Phillips, Las Vegas Sun Congress can be a lot like high school. There are the popular kids (often the lawmakers in front of TV cameras), the hanger-oners (often the lobbyists trying to befriend said lawmakers) the nerds (often the policy-wonk staffers) and the misfits (often the journalists trying to keep up with it […]
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By Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times Americans are living longer than ever before, government data show. A typical toddler born in 2012 can expect to live 78.8 years — a new record, according to a report published Wednesday by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s 36.5 days longer than in 2011. Adults who […]
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By Kathryn Reed Paying for the more than 6,000 feet of lineal water line Lukins Brothers Water Company put in doesn’t stop with the contractor’s last bill. The South Lake Tahoe company’s liability insurance went up 60 percent because of those lines. In the last two years Lukins has put in 6,000 lineal feet of […]
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By Kathryn Reed Most of the water Lukins Brothers Water Company customers are using is coming from South Tahoe Public Utility District. This is because two of the three active wells the South Lake Tahoe private water company operates are contaminated with Tetrachloroethylene, also known as PCE. The wells show 16 parts per billion and […]
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By J.D. Morris, Las Vegas Sun The company that operates Las Vegas’ Hard Rock Hotel & Casino this week earned initial approval from state gaming regulators to reopen a shuttered Lake Tahoe casino under the same brand. Warner Gaming is transforming the former Horizon casino, which closed earlier this year, into a new Hard Rock […]
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By Conor Shine, Las Vegas Sun Same-sex marriage is on its way to Nevada and with it could come millions of dollars in new spending for the state’s economy. Weddings are already a $2.3 billion industry in Las Vegas, according to the Wedding Report. That number stands to grow even larger with thousands of in-state […]
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By Kathryn Reed MEYERS – Lake Valley Fire Protection District does not have enough money to do all of the things it wants to do. That is why a parcel tax is on the Nov. 4 ballot. Members of the district, which for the most part includes the incorporated area of El Dorado County in […]
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Updated Oct. 10 11:145am: Douglas County sheriff’s deputies have found a Gardnerville teen who went missing Oct. 3. Mia Swenson, 16, is safe and has been reunited with her family. — Lake Tahoe News staff report
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