By Kathryn Reed Officials with the American Century Championship golf tournament are saying it’s too soon to know if Livestrong will remain the official charity. The annual celebrity golf tournament at Edgewood Tahoe in Stateline has been affiliated with Livestrong the last seven years. While Lance Armstrong has been accused of wrongdoing, the foundation he […]
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Publisher’s note: “I found a total of three patients in 2012 who had diagnoses containing the words ‘energy drink’ or ‘red bull’ or ‘caffeine’ – the last one was thought to be due to the effects of ‘5 hour energy’. So not unheard of, but certainly no epidemic here,” Warren Withers, medical director for Barton […]
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Two former councilmembers who left on their own accord, a planning commissioner who has twice run for the council unsuccessfully, and a political newbie/college instructor are vying to be the fifth member of the South Lake Tahoe City Council. The four are — Kathay Lovell, Bill Crawford, Austin Sass and Scott Valentine. A fifth candidate […]
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By Neela Banerjee, Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON — The impacts of climate change driven by human activity are spreading through the United States faster than had been predicted, increasingly threatening infrastructure, water supplies, crops and shorelines, according to a federal advisory committee. The draft Third National Climate Assessment, issued every four years, delivers a bracing […]
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By Kathryn Reed Bears are smart animals. They learn where easy food is, but they can also learn they aren’t wanted in houses, dumpsters or vehicles. “The alternative is a lead bullet,” Mario Klip, bear biologist with the California Department of Fish and Game, said if bears don’t learn their lesson. Klip is working with […]
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By Mark Harden, Denver Business Journal Vail Resorts Inc. said Tuesday it saw a 4.3 percent rise in lift ticket revenue and a 2 percent gain in total skier visits for the 2012-13 ski season through Sunday from the same period of last year’s winter season. But the ski resort operator also pulled back on […]
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By David Siders, Sacramento Bee Gov. Jerry Brown, who paid relatively little attention to the University of California for the first two years of his term, started showing up for board meetings late last year, urging spending reductions as part of a “new paradigm” in higher education. “We are going to have to restrain this […]
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By Anne Knowles, Northern Nevada Business Weekly In three weeks the 77th Regular Session of the Nevada Legislature begins and the state capital will once again host a swarm of lawmakers, citizens, reporters and, maybe most of all, lobbyists. About 250 lobbyists have already registered for the session, and about half of them were in […]
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By Los Angeles Times A Northern California man is facing charges for allegedly shooting a mother bear whose cubs he later tried to sell at a gas station last summer, authorities say. Chris Puett said he shot the mother of the two bears, a brother and sister, who are now sleeping through their first winter […]
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By Adam Nagourney, New York Times STOCKTON — Matthew R. Davies graduated from college with a master’s degree in business and a taste for enterprise, working in real estate, restaurants and mobile home parks before seizing on what he saw as uncharted territory with a vast potential for profits — medical marijuana. Federal agents raided […]
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