By Kathryn Reed Illegal fireworks are being blamed for the heavy police presence along Pioneer Trail for several hours on Sunday, which included a California Highway Patrol helicopter looking for what initially was thought to be people firing multiple gunshots South Lake Tahoe police officers on March 18 at 11:09am were sent to Elva Court […]
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By Bart Schaneman, Marijuana Business Daily Nevada’s recreational marijuana supplies are plentiful but not overly abundant, keeping wholesale cannabis prices on the high side compared to other adult-use markets. Business owners in Nevada don’t expect wholesale prices to remain steep for much longer, however. Growers are continuing to build out their cultivation facilities and improve […]
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By Brad Branan, Sacramento Bee The Wo/Men’s Alliance for Medical Marijuana survived a raid by federal agents and other existential threats while providing free and low-cost cannabis to seriously ill patients. In operation for the past three decades, the Santa Cruz-based collective is the oldest example of a compassionate care” program in the nation. Now, […]
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· Tahoe Regional Planning Agency is making a planner available one day a week in Incline Village to accept and review permit applications to ensure projects in the Washoe County portion of the Lake Tahoe Basin comply with TRPA regulations. Bridget Cornell will work out of the Incline Village Community Center at 855 Alder Ave. […]
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The California Tahoe Conservancy board approved a $3.182 million grant to El Dorado County to build the next phase of the South Tahoe Greenway Shared Use Trail. The first phase was completed in0 October 2015, providing a .42-mile neighborhood connection between Glenwood Way and Herbert Avenue. Together with the first phase, this phase will provide […]
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By Larry Weitzman After setting records like driving across the United States in a Kia Niro Hybrid averaging 78 mpg, it apparently wasn’t good enough for the folks at Kia as for 2018 Kia has introduced a new Niro plug-in hybrid version with a claimed all electric range of 26 miles. In reality, that range […]
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By Jane Braxton Little, Sacramento Bee A Placer County Superior Court judge has at least temporarily stopped a controversial development north of Lake Tahoe that would have allowed 760 new homes in a high-severity fire area. Judge Michael W. Jones ruled that Placer County failed to adequately address emergency evacuations in the area, especially in […]
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By Ana Bourne Like so many, I was saddened after seeing and reading about the latest incident of gun violence in America, which took place in Parkland, Fla., at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. The unforgettable images of children fleeing from the school, ambulance after ambulance arriving at the scene and frantic students and parents […]
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To the community, The inaccuracies and subjective opinion of the story posted on Lake Tahoe News compelled us to respond with the facts and true information about the volunteer food and beverage tents at American Century Championship. Edgewood Tahoe’s executive team requested a meeting with Soroptimist International of South Lake Tahoe in early February for […]
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By Josh Dean, Bloomberg Lyle Craker is an unlikely advocate for any political cause, let alone one as touchy as marijuana law, and that’s precisely why Rick Doblin sought him out almost two decades ago. Craker, Doblin likes to say, is the perfect flag bearer for the cause of medical marijuana production—not remotely controversial and […]
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