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Cory Escobar, owner and coach at Escobar Training Grounds, is confident that fighters Ryan Nicholas McCarthy and Corey Jack Carlson will be successful in their upcoming fights."Ryan and Corey ha...

PHOENIX (AP) - Bob Melvin spent most of his Sunday morning introducing himself to all the new faces gathering in the Oakland Athletics' spring training facility. Next up, he'll be reading throug...

SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) - Buster Posey squatted into a catcher's crouch for his first spring training bullpen session and began receiving pitches from ace Tim Lincecum, then Matt Cain.He practice...

Gov. Brian Sandoval said this week that he plans to repeal 654 unnecessary regulations that will assist in the state’s efforts at economic diversification and job creation by making Nevada more business friendly.
In addition to the repeal of more than 600 rules, another 1,100 will be updated as a result of an executive order he issued in January 2011 imposing a one-year freeze and calling for his cabinet to thoroughly review the entire regulatory framework of the state. The review was finalized last week.

COLEVILLE, Calif. (AP) - Most families returned to a military housing complex outside a remote U.S. Marine training base in Northern California on Sunday, two days after a propane gas explosion tha...

Project WET (Water Education for Teachers) is entering a new chapter in water resources education! This training event is taking place on North Shore and South Shore and registration closes February 3.
Includes a FREE Project WET Guide 2.0 for California Educators funded by USGS California Water Science Center. Cost is $25 for participants that do not offer programs in California. Optional Lunch $6 - 10, please bring cash.

To the citizens of El Dorado County,
The year 2011 is wrapped up, and so is my first year as your Sheriff. This year end report is to provide you, the community we serve, with information outlining some of the achievements by the men and women that make up your Sheriff’s Office. I believe it is my obligation to keep you, as the taxpayers of El Dorado County, informed as to the direction and accomplishments of this office.

Personnel from the Tahoe Douglas Fire Protection District conduct training Friday, Jan. 20, 2012, on the new Hilltrac Skier Express at the Ridge Tahoe. The new self-operated, gondola-type car, which will begin operating next week, will transport skiers from the Ridge Tahoe to the Stagecoach Chairlift. The 8-passenger gondola-type transport sits on a track and with the swipe of a room key, will take passengers down the slope side right to the Stagecoach Chairlift at Heavenly Mountain Resort within minutes.

Three bear cubs, nursed back to health by Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care, Inc., were released into the wild this week.
The bears, each close to a year old, were brought to the South Lake Tahoe facility last summer where they were found malnourished and without mothers.
The California Department of Fish and Game released one of the cubs, a female, north of Truckee on Tuesday and two were taken to Alpine County on Wednesday. The cubs were put into winter dens made by Fish and Game biologists.

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - Canadian freestyle skier Sarah Burke died Thursday, nine days after crashing at the bottom of the superpipe during a training run in Utah.Burke, who lived near Whistler in ...

(Editor's note: The Lake Tahoe-based Zawadisha Fund was founded by Jennifer Gurecki and Julie Lowe of South Lake Tahoe. Here is their report.)
Barey's eyes widened with wonder as she held the piece of paper in her hand. She struggled to decipher the words on the document but understood its significance — the number, 5,000 Kenyan shillings, would be paid to her to start her own small business baking and selling chapati to support her family.

The South Lake Tahoe Branch library is hosting free individual training sessions for many popular digital devices including laptops, tablets, iPads, Kindles and ...www.laketahoenews.net/.../s-tahoe-li...

From Harvard Professor B.F. Skinner's accidental pigeon experiment grew a still-evolving training method that has proven effective for multiple species, as well as human athletes, students and disa...

Those of us who have spent most of our adult life on ski and snowboard slopes know how important it is to follow the rules on the slopes. From our earliest snow days we have followed the Skiers Responsibility Code, simple rules that make fun on the trail safer. If you don't know the Code, check it out next time you're at a mountain resort.

Ski and snowboard volunteers are sought by the U.S. Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management to lead guided interpretive tours at Heavenly Mountain Resort one day a week from January through April 2012.
The interpretive tours are intended to educate resort visitors about the natural and cultural history of the Lake Tahoe Basin, highlighting topics such as water quality, watershed restoration, habitat improvement, fire and fuels management and responsible recreation.

Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows are announcing a new pilot study to determine the possibility of creating backcountry access gates permitting on-snow travel between Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows.

By Sean Whaley / Nevada News Bureau
CARSON CITY – Nevada has made significant progress in the collection of the data needed to measure and help improve student achievement, but still has work to do in putting the information to work for parents, educators and policy makers, a national report released today says.

The National Weather Service is hosting a Weather Spotter training course at the North Lake Tahoe Fire Protection District on Nov. 30 from 6-7:30pm. ...www.laketahoenews.net/2011/11/train-to-be-a-weat...

The California Fair Employment and Housing Act requires all employers with 50 or more employees to provide training for supervisors and managers on ...www.laketahoenews.net/.../sexual-harassment-train...

By Heather Gould
As of October 1, nine new inmates have been incarcerated in the El Dorado County jail who would have previously gone to state prison. With the state short of funds and under a court mandate to relieve overcrowding in its state prisons, those committing non-violent, non-serious and non-sex offenses will be housed in county jails rather than state prisons under a program dubbed "realignment."

I have to comment regarding the accidental shooting of the bear by the Douglas County Sheriff's deputy.First, I am certain the deputy feels terrible of the mistake he made and most likely has playe...

By TahoeChamber.org
TahoeChamber.org would like to thank all those who took the time to nominate a business or individual for the 4th Annual Blue Ribbon Awards. Over the four years that the awards program has been in existence, community participation and support has increased annually by leaps and bounds. This year brought in a record amount of nominations, which resulted in over 100 businesses and individuals being nominated for the eight different award catagories.