Updated 4:15pm El Dorado County sheriff’s Deputy Tony Broadfoot has been arrested on charges of driving under the influence twice in nine days. As of Saturday afternoon he was still in jail in Placerville on $250,000 bail. These two arrests come after his initial DUI arrest on Dec. 8. That incident occurred in South Lake […]
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By Michael Doyle, McClatchy Washington Bureau California gets its share, and then some, from the Obama administration’s $4 trillion budget proposal delivered Monday to a skeptical, Republican-controlled Congress. There’s money for restoring the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, likely to survive congressional winnowing. Proposed upgrades at places like Yosemite National Park will probably find Capitol Hill favor, […]
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As part of North Lake Tahoe’s SnowFest 2016, the 12th annual I-Did-A-Run returns to Tahoe Donner on March 13 at the Tahoe Donner Downhill Ski Area. Dogs of all shapes and sizes will compete in this timed dog pull race. The event pits dog against dog in a race against the clock, pulling sleds over […]
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· Lake Valley Fire Protection District received the Automotive Service Excellence Blue Seal of Excellence Certification for its maintenance shop. · How Supplements Can Complement Traditional Medicine is the topic of an April 6 lecture that will be presented by Amy Smith of Barton Family Practice. The free lecture is from 6-7pm in the Aspen […]
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By USSA VAIL, CO – The American slopestyle snowboarders reigned supreme at the 35th edition of the Burton U.S. Open on Friday. Kyle Mack (West Bloomfield, Mich.) scored his first major slopestyle win and fellow Michigander Eric Beauchemin (Grand Blanc, Mich) finished right behind him in second. On the women’s side Jamie Anderson (Meyers) took […]
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By Kathryn Reed Starting this fall students at Whittell High School should be able to take individual classes at South Tahoe High School. The school boards of the respective districts are slated to vote on the agreement at their March 8 meetings. While inter-district transfers between the Nevada and California districts have been available for […]
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By Patricia A. Turner We tend to recognize heroes like Arthur Ashe in a kind of short-hand—first African-American to win a singles tennis titles at Wimbledon, the U.S. Open, and the Australian Open; first African-American to be selected to represent the U.S. at the Davis Cup; and, at the university where I teach—UCLA—one of the […]
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By Karin Brulliard, Washington Post Two men in Maryland recently achieved Internet infamy when they were temporarily banned from hunting after they’d used crossbows to shoot a deer on state land. Or so they thought. The men had actually fallen prey to the ruse of a state-owned robotic deer, one of a growing number of remote-controlled decoys being used by […]
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By Geoffrey Mohan, Los Angeles Times Federal regulators said Tuesday they will ban a pesticide widely used on California crops such as almonds and alfalfa, saying it imperils aquatic insects that are the food source of fish. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday filed an intent to cancel registration of all products containing flubendiamide, […]
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By J.D. Morris, Las Vegas Sun Caesars Entertainment Corp. CEO Mark Frissora received initial approval for a gaming license from state regulators this week after he sought to put to rest any concerns about his contentious exit from his last job. The Gaming Control Board unanimously recommended a license for Frissora, who was named the […]
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