Publisher’s note: This is one in a random series of stories about what it’s like to go through the South Tahoe Public Utility District turf buyback program. By Kathryn Reed A spiral herb garden, raised mounds with endless plants and a dry riverbed. Those were not part of my plans when I decided to remove my […]
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Landscaper Brian Hirdman talks about how he took sod out of a yard in South Lake Tahoe and transformed it to be a parcel that needs very little water.
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By C. Robert Gibson, Aljazeera America The grass-roots push to equip police officers with body cameras has been effective: One-third of all police departments now have them, a significant increase since 2013, when the US Justice Department found that 75 percent of surveyed police departments didn’t use the technology. Recent incidents in Cincinnati and rural […]
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By Samantha Ehlinger, Tribune News Service WASHINGTON — A century and a half after the war ended, Americans still fundamentally disagree about slavery’s role in the Civil War and what to teach schoolchildren about it, according to a new McClatchy-Marist Poll. Fifty-four percent of respondents think slavery was the main reason for the Civil War. […]
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Sierra-at-Tahoe will be the site of a candlelight vigil for Michael Hallenbeck on Aug. 12 at 7pm. The 21-year-old U.S. Forest Service firefighter died Aug. 8 while fighting a lighting-caused fire south of Echo Summit. Hallenbeck was a Sierra-at-Tahoe employee for the past two seasons and a firefighter for the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit. During the 2015-16 […]
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By Jeff DeLong, Reno Gazette-Journal There’s El Nino, and then there’s “the blob.” Both are phenomena associated with warm water in the Pacific. Both could have some impact on the weather, including building hopes for a big winter that might help pull the West out of protracted drought. No one really knows. “This is a […]
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By Sarah Heise, KCRA-TV A solo vehicle crash in Georgetown killed a mother of two and resulted in her husband being arrested on DUI charges, according to the California Highway Patrol. The family of four from the Georgetown area was driving about 10:30 p.m. Sunday on Wentworth Springs Road, east of Quintette Court, officers said. […]
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By Kathryn Reed Four people from the Bay Area were injured in a personal watercraft accident in Zephyr Cove, with one man lucky to be alive. Antonio Villobos, 26, of San Francisco and Scott Alexander, 26, of Campbell were driving and the women – Marisa Borelli, 22, of San Francisco and Erica Sempolski, 26, of […]
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By Conor Shine, Las Vegas Sun Alcohol wholesalers play a crucial role in providing the Nevada economy with an important lubricant — and they have the political clout to match. Now, many of those same companies are angling for a piece of what could be Nevada’s next big vice — recreational marijuana. The 2016 ballot will […]
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By Javier Panzar, Los Angeles Times The Lakeview Motel’s name is false advertising these dry days. The same thing is true for the Paradise Cove Lodge down California 178. That’s because the water level in man-made Lake Isabella has dropped about 59 feet since the last big wet year in 2011. There are 32,632 acre-feet […]
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