Expect delays throughout the Lake Tahoe Basin this weekend as competitors in the Lake Tahoe Triathlon take to the road. There are four events scheduled – a sprint course Aug. 23; and Olympic, half and duathlon courses Aug. 24. All events start from Sugar Pine Point State Park and all will use Highway 89 for […]
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El Dorado and Nevada counties this week were allocated millions of dollars from the California Transportation Commission for road projects. In total, 148 projects in the state will receive more than $430 million. Last year, Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation creating the Active Transportation Program. The new program replaced a patchwork of small grant programs […]
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By Cy Ryan, Las Vegas Sun CARSON CITY — A total of 174 applications were submitted by Monday’s deadline to operate 76 medical marijuana dispensaries in Nevada, the state Division of Public and Behavioral Health reported. Of those, 140 came from Clark County, where the law allows 40 dispensaries. Those submitting applications for licenses had […]
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By Karen Robinson-Jacobs, Dallas Morning News Steps from the lobby of the Dr Pepper Snapple Group headquarters, a row of inauspicious Rubbermaid bins holds the crystallized future of the nation’s third largest soft drink player. The tubs contain sugar, the artificial sweetener aspartame and similar snowflake-like substances. Like its competitors Coke and Pepsi, Plano-based Dr […]
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Rayona Sharpnack will be the keynote speaker at the inaugural Women as Change Makers: Leading and Thriving in the 21st Century conference in October. Zawadisha, a Tahoe-based global women’s empowerment organization, is putting on the Oct. 3 event. Sharpnack is the CEO of the Institute for Women’s Leadership. She has facilitated women’s leadership trainings for […]
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AAA Travel projects 34.7 million Americans will journey 50 miles or more from home during the Labor Day holiday weekend, the highest volume for the holiday since 2008 and a 1.3 percent increase from 2013. Nearly 86 percent of travelers (29.7 million) will celebrate the holiday with a final road trip before summer comes to […]
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By Kathryn Reed The Angora Fire of 2007 taught South Lake Tahoe officials a lot of things. But much of what needed to be improved was not implemented until this year. And those changes are about to be tested. On Monday, a C130 airplane from the National Guard will be on the tarmac as though […]
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Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the Aug. 20, 2014, Sacramento Bee. After decades of neglect, the bill is coming due – in the neighborhood of $70 billion in water system fixes needed statewide, according to one estimate. The $7.5 billion water bond on the November ballot would provide some help. The bond includes four […]
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By Amanda MacMillan, Outside Hal Koerner, one of ultrarunning’s best, once shared with us what University of Oregon track coach Bob Bowerman told athletes after a big win: “The next day, you just start again. Nobody cares what you did the day before.” Certainly motivational stuff, but don’t take it too literally. Definitely take some […]
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Gateway signs along three Nevada highways leading into the Lake Tahoe Basin have been installed to bring awareness to the watershed. “The signs are meant to help remind the millions of people who visit Lake Tahoe each year that they are entering a special place and have a duty to help protect its famously clear […]
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