By Jessica Kutz, High Country News Congress accomplished something unprecedented last week: They passed a bipartisan solution to a knotty budget issue that has hobbled the U.S. Forest Service’s ability to do restoration and fire-prevention work in Western forests. The $1.3 trillion federal spending package, signed into law by President Trump, included a long-sought funding […]
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A Truckee man could be sent to prison for six years after pleading no contest to charges of drugging and raping a woman. James Russell Ferrigno, 32, entered the plea earlier this month. He was arrested in October. 2017. Investigators said the victim was renting a room from Ferrigno. She told police she suspected Ferrigno […]
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The Future of the Stewart Indian School will be the topic of a talk on April 10. Lake Tahoe Historical Society is bring Sherry Rupert, executive director of the Nevada Indian Commission, for a narration of the past and future of the Stewart Indian School that was established in 1890. The talk begins at 7pm […]
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South Tahoe High School graduate Jim Greenwood died March 13, 2018. He was 63. Born James Gregory Greenwood on May 22, 1954, in Inglewood to James R. and Betty Jean Greenwood, he had one brother, Robert Vincent, who predeceased him. Jim’s family moved to South Lake Tahoe in 1969. He forged many lifelong friendships during […]
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By Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle “Stay out and stay alive.” That’s the message a state ranger has for anyone planning a little fun in the sun at Northern California rivers this weekend. Warming temperatures in the 70s together with a late-season snow can make for a deadly mix in the upper reaches of the […]
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Law enforcement agencies throughout Nevada will be focusing on distracted drivers from April 1-15. The Nevada Highway Patrol will be working to urge motorists to keep their eyes on the road and put away cell phones or other items that cause distractions. On average, texting takes your eyes off the road for 4.6 seconds. When […]
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· Based on recent precipitation, the annual closure of dirt roads in Eldorado National Forest has been extended to April 15. · To help celebrate National Library Week, Amelia Bedelia will be at the Douglas County Public Library in Minden on April 14 at 11am. Bedelia is a very literal literary character, and she is […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe’s finances are stable today. Look again in November and it may be a completely different story. That will be one of the messages delivered Tuesday by Debbie McIntyre, the city’s finance director, when she goes over the midyear budget with the City Council. What could change in seven months […]
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By Brian Hines, Sacramento Bee When I was 10, I taught myself how to fish in California’s redwood-lined Russian River, once a world-renowned wild steelhead rainbow trout sport fishery. Today, as a veteran trout and salmon sport angler I see how climate change threatens our wild trout and salmon populations and our outdoor traditions. […]
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By Somini Sengupta, New York Times UNITED NATIONS — Nuclear weapons? Famine? Civil war? Nope. The United Nations secretary general, António Guterres, on Thursday called climate change “the most systemic threat to humankind” and urged world leaders to curb their countries’ greenhouse gas emissions. He didn’t say much, though, about the one world leader who […]
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