An altercation between two brothers on Tuesday night ended with one behind bars and the other in the hospital. Christopher Amato, 24, of South Lake Tahoe was arrested Feb. 2 on assault with a deadly weapon charges. Bail was set at $25,000. His stepbrother, who is in his 30s, was taken to Barton Memorial Hospital […]
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By Joy Resmovits, Los Angeles Times Starting next year, California and seven other states will have more control over how they spend the millions of federal dollars tied to a questionable tutoring program. Under the George W. Bush administration’s No Child Left Behind law, schools that serve high concentrations of poor students and were rated […]
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By Peter Fimrite, San Francisco Chronicle Worsening drought conditions may be doing more damage to forests in California and throughout the West than their ecosystems can handle, causing a spiral of death that could have a devastating impact on land managers, a U.S. Forest Service study concludes. The 300-page report issued Monday — “Effects of […]
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By Ian James, Desert Sun The Obama administration has begun an initiative aimed at making the United States more water-efficient, saying the country has the potential to reduce its total water use by a third. Deputy Interior Secretary Mike Connor said some of the White House’s objectives include encouraging more recycling of wastewater and promoting […]
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· The El Dorado County Senior Nutrition Program in South Lake Tahoe needs volunteer drivers to deliver lunchtime meals to homebound seniors. For information, call 530.621.6160. · Justine Martin and Andrew Horejs are opening MoonHouse Brewhouse at 2040 Dunlap Drive in South Lake Tahoe in the old Grass Roots building · South Lake Tahoe disc […]
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By Lake Tahoe News It doesn’t matter that the water content of the snow near Echo Summit is 130 percent of average; officials aren’t about to say the drought is anywhere near over. “While the recent rains and growing snowpack are wonderful to behold, we won’t know until spring what effect it will have on […]
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BY Olga R. Rodriguez, AP Environmental groups and federal and state agencies have formed a partnership to increase the use of prescribed fires to improve the health of California’s forests and watersheds and minimize the effects of increasingly devastating wildfires. The agreement signed by the CalFire, U.S. Forest Service and other federal and state agencies […]
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By Wesley Juhl, Las Vegas Review-Journal Nearly one in 11 people shopping for guns online in Nevada is prohibited from possessing a firearm, according to a study by Everytown for Gun Safety released Friday. Everytown for Gun Safety, a national gun control advocacy group, researched listings for firearms on four websites: Armslist, Gunlistings, Backpage and Facebook, […]
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By Cy Ryan, Las Vegas Sun CARSON CITY — Attorney General Adam Laxalt says the board of the Incline Village General Improvement District violated the open meeting law and failed to correct it. Laxalt said the move to reorganize the board at North Lake Tahoe in August is void because of the violations. Read the […]
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By Associated Press PUNXSUTAWNEY, Pa. — The handlers of Pennsylvania’s most famous groundhog, Punxsutawney Phil, said the furry rodent failed to see his shadow at dawn Tuesday, meaning he “predicted” an early spring. “Is this current warm weather more than a trend? Per chance this winter has come to an end? There is no shadow […]
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