To the community, The Tahoe Heritage Foundation and all of us at the Tallac Historic Site would like to thank these generous donors for their contributions to the Great Gatsby Festival’s silent auction. Money received from the auction goes directly back to the restoration and preservation of the estates on the Tallac Historic Site. Businesses: […]
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Barton Health puts on a Type I Diabetes Support Group the first Tuesday of each month at 5:30pm. Led by medical professionals, the support group provides a place for those affected by Type 1 Diabetes to share ideas, experiences, and resources. All ages welcome. The guest speaker on Sept. 2 is CalSTAR nurse Beth Frisby […]
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By Martin Griffith, AP The Burning Man counterculture festival drew a peak crowd of nearly 66,000 celebrants as it neared an end Monday on the Northern Nevada desert. Friday’s official peak attendance of 65,922 was within the population cap of 68,000 the federal Bureau of Land Management imposed on the quirky art and music festival, […]
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Author and Sierra Nevada native Gary D. Noy will be talking about his new book “Sierra Stories: Tales of Dreamers, Schemers, Bigots, and Rogues” on Sept. 23. This collection highlights unusual or lesser-known stories of the Sierra Nevada experience. The focus of this presentation will be the Yosemite Valley Grant Act of 1864, which brought […]
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By Doresa Banning, Nevada Business Demand for land in Nevada has resembled a roller coaster pattern this decade. During the real estate boom in the first half of the 2000s, both residential and commercial developers hungrily purchased land, driving up prices. With the recession, the opposite happened; development nearly ceased, land demand decreased and so […]
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By Stephen Baxter, Santa Cruz Sentinel WATSONVILLE — A 24-year-old Watsonville man is suing Santa Cruz County law enforcement agencies after he was pulled over on his motorcycle and later lost his job because a deputy called his employer. Kristopher Klay was riding his motorcycle on Highway 1 near Watsonville in May 2013 when he […]
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Updated Sept. 5 4:50pm: A pickup driver kept driving after hitting two cyclists on Highway 28 on Aug. 30, according to the Nevada Highway Patrol The cyclists were treated and released from the hospital after sustaining non-life threatening injuries. Jerry Hitchcock, 59, of Santa Clara was CareFlighted to Renown Medical Center in Reno and Robert […]
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By John Heilprin, AP GENEVA — About 3,000 species of wildlife around the world have seen their numbers plummet far worse than previously thought, according to a study by one of the world’s biggest environmental groups. The study Tuesday from the Swiss-based WWF largely blamed human threats to nature for a 52 percent decline in […]
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By Steven Greenhouse, New York Times MIRA LOMA — Week after week, Guadalupe Rangel worked seven days straight, sometimes 11 hours a day, unloading dining room sets, trampolines, television stands and other imports from Asia that would soon be shipped to Walmart stores. Even though he often clocked 70 hours a week at the Schneider […]
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Fire Fest is Sept. 27 from 10am-3pm at Lake Tahoe Airport. Fire Fest is a free annual event that highlights fire and life safety for children and families. Helicopters will star at Fire Fest as they land at the South Lake Tahoe airport. People can get inside a fire truck, escape from the smoke house, […]
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