To the community, The chain saw is coming yet again to my neighborhood. The first time it was cleanup following the Angora Fire. Then it was fuel reduction by the fire department of assorted parcels and residences. Then it was fuel reduction by the USFS of national forest land. Some trees that had survived the […]
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· Sierra-at-Tahoe’s mobile app gauges speed, distance, vertical number of runs and daily calories burned over the course of the season. · The Oct. 19 opening of Sunday River ski resort in Maine makes it the first resort in North America to open for this season. · Washoe County Sheriff’s Office has received a $123,100 […]
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By Joe Drape and Jacqueline Williams, New York Times The FBI has begun an inquiry into the practices of booming daily fantasy sports websites after players of the games and lawmakers made allegations of predatory tactics and questioned the use of inside information, according to fantasy players who said they had been contacted by investigators. […]
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By Ariana Eunjung Cha, Washington Post Throughout the years scientists have documented the benefits of red wine — for heart health, cholesterol control and possibly even cancer prevention — in numerous studies. But what about its cousin, the white kind? The short answer is that the evidence supporting white wine’s health benefits, while still limited, is growing. While previous studies on the […]
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South Lake Tahoe’s ban on plastic single-use carryout bags at retail establishments went into effect today. The ordinance took effect for grocery stores and food vendors on Jan. 15, 2014. For all other retail establishments the rule is effective Oct. 15. The city said it is seeking voluntary compliance and has no intention of immediate enforcement. […]
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By John M. Glionna and Javier Panzar, Los Angeles Times When Lamar Odom was found unconscious Tuesday inside a Nevada brothel, he’d wandered far off the beaten path of adult entertainment culture, back into an analog version of an increasingly high-tech sex-play universe. Like Wayne Newton and mobsters wielding tommy guns, the antics of the […]
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The logger who died Oct. 14 while working in the Eldorado National Forest has been identified as Jeffrey Jones, 55, of Lincoln. Jones was working at a logging operation off Wentworth Springs Road on the West Slope. According to the El Dorado County Sheriff’s office, Jones “sustained fatal injuries from a log that fell from his trailer and […]
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By Daniel Rothberg, Las Vegas Sun Tesla says two Reno journalists trespassed at its battery-manufacturing property late last week before striking two security guards with a Jeep belonging to the Reno Gazette-Journal. The sheriff’s department arrested Gazette-Journal photographer Andy Barron on two counts of felony assault with a deadly weapon. Tesla said Tuesday in a […]
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The two people who died in Saturday night’s plane crash were from the Bay Area. Conrad Yu, 73, of Oakley was the owner and pilot of the Beech 35 Bonanza. His passenger was Mary Choy, 66, of San Francisco. The aircraft was taking off from Lake Tahoe Airport just after 5:30pm Oct. 10 when it […]
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Police are searching for the gunman who shot a 19-year-old South Lake Tahoe man in the leg early this morning. The victim, whose name has not been released, showed up at Barton Memorial Hospital about midnight Oct. 15. Hospital personnel then called police. Officers tracked a vehicle in question to the rear of the TJ […]
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