By Associated Press CVS Health is making prescription deliveries nationwide to accommodate the heightened expectations of convenience from consumers. Comment on this story The nation’s second-largest drugstore chain says it also will make home deliveries of other items, like allergy medicines, vitamins or household products. The service will cost $4.99 for deliveries made in one […]
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By Melissa Matheney, KRNV-TV Inspectors say 20 to 30 dams in the Truckee Meadows are categorized as “high hazard.” The “high hazard” rating means if they were to breach, there would be catastrophic damage that could result in severe flooding. The Bureau of Reclamation maintains dams at Tahoe, Prosser, Boca, Stampede and Lahontan reservoirs. A […]
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By Susan Wood South Shore resident Jerry Goodman couldn’t have said it better when it comes to opening up or closing the door to vacation home rentals. It feels “like Groundhog Day” in respect to a November ballot initiative that could change the face of the lake’s only incorporated city. No other issue can bring […]
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By Richard N. Velotta, Las Vegas Review-Journal Continuity will be the key to the Nevada Commission on Tourism’s new marketing strategy for rural Nevada. Three companies, two from out of state, will collaborate to market the state’s rural destinations under new four-year contracts finalized Wednesday by the commission. Columbus, Ohio-based Fahlgren Martine will head media […]
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Truckee is having an open house June 27 to gather input on the future use of the McIver Dairy site. The town obtained landscape architecture consultant Callander Associates to develop alternative conceptual drawings which include various public uses on this site. These will be presented at the workshop. The McIver Dairy site, located at 10755 […]
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By Seth Borenstein and Nicky Forster, AP We were warned. On June 23, 1988, a sultry day in Washington, James Hansen told Congress and the world that global warming wasn’t approaching — it had already arrived. The testimony of the top NASA scientist, said Rice University historian Douglas Brinkley, was “the opening salvo of the […]
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A South Lake Tahoe child care operator has been arrested on charges of sexually assaulting a child. David Rodriguez-Flores, a licensee of Pequenos Rascals Learning Center, was taken into custody on June 20. Bail was set at $500,000. South Lake Tahoe police officers on June 15 received information about a possible on-going child sexual assault […]
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By Art Marroquin, Las Vegas Review-Journal Nevada drivers might want to double-check their insurance, because changes are coming in about two weeks. The threshold for minimum liability coverage goes up July 1 under a law approved during last year’s legislative session. New minimums require motorists to carry $25,000 per person for bodily injury, $50,000 per […]
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By Susan Wood Is South Lake Tahoe providing a green light to the potential of dangerous road incidents or an innovative transportation alternative by allowing electric scooters in town? This was the question on June 19 related to the green bikes and scooters dotting the city landscape, prompting the City Council to hear the pros […]
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By Sage Sauerbrey, Moonshine Ink “Forest fires happen because of decades of decisions that are made beforehand,” says forest ecologist Malcom North of a long line of mistakes in forest management stretching more than 100 years into the past. These unintentional blunders have compounded with climate change and natural forest processes throughout the years to […]
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