The North Lake Tahoe Candidates and Issues Forum is Oct. 14 from 6-8:30pm at the Tahoe City Public Utility District board room on Fairway Drive in Tahoe City. Candidates running for positions on the TCPUD board, NTPUD board, Tahoe Forest Hospital District board as well as proponents of the Tahoe Truckee Unified School District’s bond issue […]
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By Jacob Bunge, Wall Street Journal A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging a California law that requires all eggs sold in the Golden State to come from hens housed in roomier cages. The ruling deals a blow to a joint effort by a half-dozen farm states, including Missouri and Iowa, whose attorneys general […]
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• There will be a free Accessing Capital for Your Business Workshop and Lender Expo on Oct. 15 from 3-5:30pm at Lake Tahoe Community College cafeteria. • “The Geology of Tahoe: A Story of Earthquakes, Glaciers and Volcanism” will explore the powerful forces that created Lake Tahoe and its surrounding mountains, and will shed some […]
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By Lance Williams and Katharine Mieszkowski, Center for Investigative Reporting RIVERSIDE, Calif. – Mike Soubirous is a prodigious water user, pumping more than 1 million gallons per year at his lushly landscaped home on a hot, windy Southern California hilltop. Soubirous also is a member of the Riverside City Council, which in July voted unanimously […]
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By Kathryn Reed Each time I picked up “All is Well, Safely Rest and Other Stories” it was a mystery what I would be reading next. This is a collection of nine works of fiction from Wade Morgan, who used to live and work in Lake Tahoe. The biggest problem I had is that none […]
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By Michael Doyle, Bee Washington Bureau Fresno native Brian Turner packed his poetry and went to war. Now, he’s returned with an acclaimed memoir. With “My Life as a Foreign Country,” Turner has earned both accolades and, it seems, a measure of peace. The former infantryman has also fleshed out what he previously hinted at […]
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Publisher’s note: Lake Tahoe News convened an editorial panel of seven community members to come up with this endorsement. For 40 years, Lake Tahoe Community College has served the needs of the community through excellent programs, outstanding educators and what are now adequate or subpar facilities. But we believe the leaders need to go back […]
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Because of the progress in suppressing the King Fire and repair efforts the road and trail closures on the American River Ranger District are no longer in effect. The Tahoe National Forest has also made repairs to the Western States Trail and reconstructed the Swinging Bridge and smaller Pacific Slab Bridge are complete. The trail closure across […]
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Kingsbury Grade is scheduled to reopen Oct. 7 at 6am. Construction will continue for the next weeks. Motorists should expect construction-related traffic delays of up to 30 minutes over the next few weeks. Construction is scheduled to resume in spring 2015. Since the project’s start in May, nearly four miles of roadway have been reconstructed, including excavation […]
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By Bettina Boxall, Los Angeles Times A few years ago a group of researchers used computer modeling to put California through a nightmare scenario: Seven decades of unrelenting mega-drought similar to those that dried out the state in past millennia. “The results were surprising,” said Jay Lund, one of the academics who conducted the study. […]
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