By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe Fire Department is on its way to returning to its primary focus — dealing with all things related to fire. The City Council on Tuesday voted unanimously to make this happen. Lake Valley Fire is poised to be the provider of all ambulance services in El Dorado County on […]
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By Joe Mathews Let’s stipulate that U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia was wrong to dissent in last month’s ruling legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide. But Scalia was right when, in the same dissent, he suggested that California is a different place than the American West. And in so doing, he unwittingly raised an important question […]
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By Joe Garofoli, San Francisco Chronicle In the days before medical cannabis dispensaries offered dozens of strains, marijuana smokers blindly scored their weed on the street. Or, more likely, “from a guy I know.” Some still do. But in this era of heirloom tomatoes and shade-grown coffee, a more discerning generation wants to meet the […]
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By Ula Ilnytzky, AP NEW YORK — The 1984 Summer Olympic Torch that Bruce Jenner carried through Lake Tahoe is going on the auction block where it could fetch $20,000 or more. It’s the first major piece of Jenner memorabilia to go to auction since the winner of the 1976 Olympic Decathlon Gold Medal became […]
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Reservations are being taken for the Placer County Sheriff Office’s Community Awareness Academy. This year participants will tour the new South Placer Jail in addition to several other field trips. There are eight classes, each of which covers a different topic. Classes are Tuesday and Thursday evenings, from Sept. 1-24. Participants will hear from members of the department’s special units […]
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By Peter Dockrill, Science Alert Getting away from it all in the great outdoors has been a proven panacea for generations of city-dwellers, but a new study has quantified how access to nature could be a vital component in our overall mental health. With more and more of us living in urban areas, researchers from […]
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· Lake Tahoe made this list for best places to swim before you die. · Check out this photo essay to see where USA Today thinks people should be dining in the Tahoe-Reno area. · Here is the El Dorado-Tahoe roadwork schedule from Caltrans for this week. · Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Granite Bay, will host a […]
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By Los Angeles Times Gasoline sold in California costs more than in the rest of the U.S. — sometimes dramatically so. That’s because the Golden State’s market is isolated from outside fuel suppliers that might moderate prices. The fuel market here is an economic island, and occasionally circumstances combine to make California’s gasoline even pricier […]
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Four people were caught for allegedly driving drunk on July 4 in the DUI checkpoint on Spooner Summit. The event had 2,021 vehicles pass through the checkpoint from approximately 2:30-8:15pm. There were 22 drivers that went to a secondary screening which found four people under the influence of alcohol and or drugs. Three were arrested on […]
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A 21-year-old South Lake Tahoe woman has died from injuries sustained in a motorcycle collision Sunday night. The woman was a passenger on the motorcycle. Names of the three people involved in the accident are not being released pending notification of family. The woman died at Renown Medical Center in Reno. The man driving a […]
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