By Sabrina Tavernise, New York Times Federal researchers reported on Tuesday that the number of Americans without health insurance had declined substantially in the first quarter of this year, the first federal measure of the number of uninsured Americans since the Affordable Care Act extended coverage to millions of people in January. The number of […]
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Publisher’s note: Lake Tahoe News asked the seven South Lake Tahoe City Council candidates a series of questions. All are the same except for one that is specific to each candidate. This is the final one. Name: Brooke Laine Profession/work experience: Bank manager, US Bank — January 2014 to current Assistant sales and service manager, […]
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Updated Sept. 15 11:55pm: The King Fire near Pollock Pines grew to 8,600 acres on Monday night, with 5 percent containment. Highway 50 is reduced to one lane through the fire area. The California Air Resources Board will be installing a temporary PM2.5 monitor at South Tahoe High School to monitor smoke from the King Fire […]
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By Thom Jensen, KXTV-TV JMA Ventures owns some of the priciest resorts and restaurants from San Francisco to Seattle. It also operates Homewood Mountain Resort. But one of JMA’s lesser known properties is not living up to the same reputation among travelers. Inside room 224 at the Tahoe Inn in Kings Beach cameras captured ants […]
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CalFire and Truckee firefighters on Sunday night extinguished a small vegetation fire in Olympic Heights. Officials believe the Sept. 14 9:20pm fire may have started from a discarded cigarette. A plot about 20 feet by 30 feet burned. Officials said it was luck there was no wind that neighbors jumped on the fire before firefighters […]
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Lake Tahoe Community College is one of eight colleges selected to be part of a pilot program involving online education. California Community Colleges’ Online Education Initiative (OEI) begins this fall and goes through spring 2016. The goal is to increase student access to online courses throughout California and define the future of online education in […]
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A fire on Tramway Drive in Stateline on Saturday did not reach the interior of the structure. The two-alarm fire Sept. 13 at 6:42pm burned the deck of the residence and the siding. “(The cause) is under investigation related to construction activity,” Tahoe Douglas Fire Marshal Eric Guevin told Lake Tahoe News. — Lake Tahoe News […]
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Updated 5:15pm: Smoke drifting into Truckee and that is streaming over the ridge on the South Shore is from the King Fire burning out of control near Pollock Pines. “Heavy fuels are burning and timber,” Terri Mizuhara, spokeswoman for CalFire, told Lake Tahoe News. “It’s traveling east, northeast with a rapid rate of spread.” It is […]
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By Matthew L. Wald, New York Times When Nevada lured Tesla Motors to the Reno area to build a giant battery factory, a triumphant governor, Brian Sandoval, proclaimed that every dollar his state was spending in tax incentives and other subsidies would yield $80 in economic activity. But experts in industrial development say that his […]
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By Josh Richman, San Jose Mercury News Silicon Valley venture capitalist Tim Draper has missed a key step in his audacious plan to break up California into six states: He failed to gather enough signatures to qualify his initiative for the November 2016 ballot, the Secretary of State’s Office reported Friday. The slipup seemed like […]
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