· Sierra State Parks Foundation presents an evening with John Grenbenkemper, Institute for Canine Forensics’s historic human remains detection canine handler, on April 21 at the Donner Memorial State Park Visitor Center located at 12593 Donner Pass Road, Truckee. Doors open at 5pm, with the program beginning at 5:30pm. Cost is $5. Parking is free. […]
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Police are looking for a man who robbed the South Lake Tahoe Wells Fargo Bank on Saturday. The suspect entered the Emerald Bay Road on March 24 just before 1pm, presented a teller a note. He left with an undisclosed amount of cash. No weapon was seen. The suspect is described as a white or […]
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Soroptimist International of Tahoe Sierra’s annual fundraising event, Elegant Evening, is April 21 at Harrah’s Lake Tahoe. Soul Experience featuring Trey Stone will provide the music as guests taste wine, beer and vodka. The $75 tickets include a full dinner. Purchase tickets online or email sitahoesierra@gmail.com. The raffles and auctions help with the fundraising. For those wanting to bid early or who can’t make it, it’s the […]
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Lake Tahoe’s ultimate maître d’ has died. David Alan McClure was special and one of a kind. He died Feb. 24, 2018, of organ failure at Renown Medical Center in Reno. He was 67. In a 2012 story about Mr. McClure in Lake Tahoe News he said, “My job is to change people’s experiences. You […]
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By Kathryn Reed Solutions to South Lake Tahoe’s housing woes were in short supply during a talk about the issue on Wednesday. Mayor Wendy David’s monthly gathering was focused on housing last week, with planning staff (Kevin Fabino and John Hitchcock) there to provide the bulk of the information. “There are a lot of things […]
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By Joe Mathews California education finances are an unholy mess—with incomprehensible budget formulas, equity funding that doesn’t produce equity, and cuts to schools even during the current economic expansion. And our state’s so-called education leaders refuse to fix the system. We should let the kids fix it instead. This isn’t a modest proposal: I’m as […]
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By Joanna Klein, New York Times If you’re lucky, you can spot a gray wolf in Yellowstone National Park. But a century ago, you’d have been hard pressed to find any there. Poisonings and unregulated hunting obliterated nearly all of these majestic canines from Canada to Mexico, their original home range. Then the rewilding began. […]
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By Alexander Cohen, Las Vegas Review-Journal A database of Nevada arrest records that was open to public inspection for decades has been made secret by a new state law. The Nevada Department of Public Safety, which collects the information from law enforcement agencies across the state, won approval of the new law after the Las […]
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By Matt Levin, CalMatters Memes of a mild-mannered California legislator photoshopped as a Star Trek villain. A San Francisco supervisor suggesting the city should sue the state, to “thunderous applause.” Wealthy Marin County homeowners and South Los Angeles tenants’ rights groups working as political bedfellows. All inspired by a wonky state housing bill yet to […]
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· On March 30 at 11am there will be a groundbreaking ceremony for El Dorado County’s state-of-the-art public safety facility. The ceremony will be at 200 Industrial Drive in Placerville, and will last approximately 30 minutes. · Morgan Heritage & Fiji, plus Maoli & Nomad and Ambassador DJs will be at Blu Nightclub at MontBleu in Stateline […]
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