Every year as soon as the calendar flips to show Dec. 1, the twinkling lights and plastic snowmen start to appear on lawns across towns. Some might put them up sooner than others, some might not put any...

“Yay! The power’s out!” is not something many people say when the lights go out unexpectedly. Power outages may be inconvenient for many in this digital age, but they provide us with an important...

It’s no secret that college applications put an immense amount of pressure on high school seniors. From the pressure to attend a prestigious university to the pressure to definitively pick a career at...

Driving does not need to be problematic. There are 11 total roundabouts in Truckee. Yield means slowing way down and giving the right of way to traffic already in the roundabout. You go counter-clockwise...

Fake Christmas trees have taken the world by storm. The plastic foliage enters homes every holiday season, never dropping dry needles and always staying perfectly symmetrical. As they have continued to...

Ants are undoubtedly the best animal alive. There is at least 20 quadrillion on Earth. That is 20,000,000,000,000,000 ants on our planet. That’s about 2.5 million ants for every human being. What always...

Why do teens drink so much caffeine? Parents may say no when we teenagers ask to buy a Monster or a Redbull. The truth though… they don’t understand it is the only thing keeping us here long enough...

Dance Monkey by Tones and I is the worst piece of music ever to grace our ears.  Dance Monkey is clearly part of the new generation of music, strictly made for TikTok. The song's chorus is enough...

The two cheddar snack favorites. The iconic square and the smiley fish have filled stomachs for decades but which is truly better? Goldfish or Cheez-Itz? According to Wikipedia, the Goldfish was first...