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Scientists at the University of California, Davis, have, for the first time, developed a system that can determine which types of air particles that pollute the atmosphere are the most prevalent and most toxic.

Previous research has shown that air pollution containing fine and ultrafine particles is associated with asthma, heart disease and premature death. This new study, released today by the California Air Resources Board and the Electric Power Research Institute, marks the first time that researchers have conducted source-oriented sampling of these particles in the atmosphere.

7/7/53 - 1/21/2013Gene was preceded in death by his Mother Flora, his Father Wilbur, and brothers Ronald, Kenneth and Richard. He passed at home on the 21st after a brave battle with brain cance...

El Dorado County Sheriff's deputies arrested the wife of former Lake Tahoe Forest Supervisor Bob Harris on suspicion of murder over the weekend after finding Harris' body in a home near Placerville.
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El Dorado County Sheriff's deputies arrested the wife of former Lake Tahoe Forest Supervisor Bob Harris on suspicion of murder over the weekend after finding Harris' body in a home near Placervi...

BROOMFIELD, Colorado - Vail Resorts claims a teenager's own negligence caused his avalanche death on the front of Vail Mountain.Taft Conlin was 13 when an avalanche on Prima Cornice killed him last...

BEIRUT - The United Nations gave a grim new count Wednesday of the human cost of Syria's civil war, saying the death toll has exceeded 60,000 in 21 months - far higher than recent estimates by anti...

Lake Tahoe Community College TRiO Specialist Anna Lee was on maternity leave when she heard about the alleged murder of Lyra Fisher. The news of her former student's death hit her hard, and she cou...

California voters had rejected every statewide tax measure since 2004 until they approved two of them last week. They also said yes to 70 percent of the local tax and bond measures on last week’s ballot. But this may not be the start of a new trend.
The passage of Propositions 30 and 39 snapped a seven-measure winning streak for the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association. But President Jon Coupal says that doesn't mean the attitudes of California voters are changing when it comes to taxes.

LOS ANGELES - California voters were closely divided Tuesday on Gov. Jerry Brown's proposed $6 billion-a-year tax increase while they weighed whether to end the state's death penalty and impose a f...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - Support is growing to end California's death penalty, but backers of an initiative on Tuesday's ballot still lack the majority needed to pass it, according to a Field Poll...

A 14-year-old Angels Camp boy found dead in a remote mountain area last week apparently succumbed to exposure, the Calaveras County Coroner said Monday.
Taylor Dustin froze to death after he and his uncle, Devin Smith of Douglas Flat, got lost during a hunting trip in Alpine County, officials said.
Smith, 40, survived, but suffered from hypothermia.
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NEW YORK (AP) - Millions of people from Maine to the Carolinas awoke Tuesday without electricity, and an eerily quiet New York City was all but closed off by car, train and air as superstorm San...

On Wednesday the South Lake Tahoe Police Department received word from the Contra Costa Sheriff’s Department that Derek Penaranda, 30, from Ripon, Calif., passed away while in a long term care facility in their jurisdiction.

Progressive or provincial? That is the crux of the issue facing our south shore community during this election and well into the next decade. Do we want a viable, prosperous community that our children and grandchildren are proud to call home? Or do we want the Tahoe of yesterday—only older and shabbier, with fewer families and more boarded up businesses?

As Natalie Mar staggered up the steep switchbacks last weekend near Lake Tahoe, she wasn't certain she'd make it.
She had just scaled a 12-foot wall, dived into a bath of icy water and slithered through mud while ducking barbed wires that dangled 8 inches overhead. And now she was running an 11-mile trail with a 1,500-foot elevation change.
"I'm going to die," Mar, 24, thought.
But she didn't, and she cleared the switchbacks. Her reward: to belly-crawl under live wires.

The American Century Championship will distribute $65,000 to Lake Tahoe South area charities, officials announced Monday.
The Lance Armstrong Foundation, the celebrity golf tournament’s nationally designated charity, in partnership with the Lake Tahoe Visitors Authority, NBC Sports and American Century Investments, will provide funds to area non-profit organizations for specific needs to help make a difference in the community.

Celebrate the annual fall migration of the Kokanee salmon of Lake Tahoe at the Taylor Creek Visitor Center. The Visitor Center is located three miles north of South Lake Tahoe on Highway 89. Join the fun and participate in this free family event which has become one of the most fascinating educational and wildlife viewing events in Northern California.
The festival encourages participation by children and their parents in a wide variety of educational and entertaining activities including:

1947-2012 Blackie passed away peacefully, surrounded by loving family and friends, on Friday August 24, 2012, at the VA Hospital in Palo Alto. He was preceded in death by his parents Henry Franc...

California-based Tanimura & Antle Inc. is voluntarily recalling a single lot of romaine lettuce because it may be contaminated with E. coli. The affected product is limited to Tanimura & Antle Field Fresh Wrapped Single Head Romaine. This product is packed in a plastic bag with the UPC number 0-27918-20314-9 and may have a Best Buy date of “08 19 12.” The product was available at retail locations Aug. 2 – Aug. 19.