By Mark Glover, Sacramento Bee High heat and gas prices apparently will not deter Californians from enjoying the first summer holiday of the year. AAA projects that more than 4.6 million Californians plan to travel at least 50 miles or more during the three-day Independence Day weekend. That represents a 1.5 percent increase over 2013. […]
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By Steven Overly, Washington Post It’s all pomp and patriotism until someone burns a limb. The number of fireworks-related injuries soared to their highest level in more than a decade last year, according to a U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission report released last week. An estimated 11,400 injuries were reported during 2013, a staggering 31 […]
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By Dale Kasler, Sacramento Bee SAN FRANCISCO — The former chief executive of CalPERS is about to plead guilty to a conspiracy charge in connection with the bribery scandal that erupted at the nation’s largest public pension fund five years ago. Fred Buenrostro, who ran CalPERS from 2002 to 2008, will enter a guilty plea […]
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By Michelle Andrews, NPR People are worried about being able to pay for health insurance. So the insurance industry and a group of Democratic senators have proposed offering cheaper, skimpier “copper plans” on the health law’s marketplaces that could draw in people who were unhappy with the cost of available plans. But consumer advocates and […]
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By Jason Song, Los Angeles Times About half the students enrolled in California’s community colleges take more than four years to graduate, double the traditional two-year commitment, a study released Tuesday found. Of the nearly 64,000 who received a single associate degree in the 2012-13 academic year, the median student took 4.1 years, the nonprofit […]
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By Kathryn Reed Mixed messages are being sent to Barton Health regarding its care for hospital patients. “The Joint Commission is the major governing body for hospitals across the nation. They have invited us to share best practices on one of our safety measures because of our good work here,” Monica Sciuto, spokeswoman for Barton, […]
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By Russell Contreras, AP ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — A Nevada-based startup that plans on selling medical and recreational marijuana products named former New Mexico governor and U.S. Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson as its CEO and president, the company announced Tuesday. The announcement came as Cannabis Sativa Inc. said it had acquired marijuana research business Kush […]
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Two black bears were captured Tuesday morning by the Nevada Department of Wildlife in separate traps in Incline Village. They will be released in the mountains above Lake Tahoe on Wednesday morning. A third bear was hit and killed by a car near Spooner Summit early Tuesday morning. Since 1997, 170 black bears have been […]
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Two days after someone broke into the Lake Tahoe Boys & Girls Club the suspect remains at large. A window was smashed at the South Lake Tahoe facility on June 29. “A computer game station was stolen among other miscellaneous items,” police Lt. Brian Williams told Lake Tahoe News. The investigation is ongoing. — Lake […]
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Tom Watson, South Lake Tahoe’s city attorney, received a glowing review July 1. Watson, who has been with the city for one year, did not receive a raise. He has received an automatic step increase that brought him to the top step. It is possible in the near future that his contract will be extended […]
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