By Ken Ritter, AP About one in three Nevada motorists, or as many as 600,000 people, could face a 9 percent jump in auto insurance rates this summer when the state raises the basic required minimum levels of bodily injury and property damage coverage, officials said. The increase, effective July 1, could amount to about […]
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El Dorado County has long been in need of additional office space in South Lake Tahoe. If supervisors on Tuesday say yes, a 6,435-square-foot building on Sandy Way will be theirs. Owners of Tahoe Beach Retreat have title to the building. Prior to their ownership it was a post office. The U.S. Postal Service closed […]
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Tahoe Keys Property Owners Association is planning to stabilize the south side of the homeowners’ pier with a combination of sheet pile wall, boulders and clean sand. “The revetment will prevent further erosion of the shoreline from lake waves when the lake level is high,” Doug Smith with the Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control […]
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Friends of the South Lake Tahoe Library have scheduled two diverse events. Both are free and open to everyone. The library is on Rufus Allen Boulevard. The first is March 27 at 6pm with the Sugar Pine Foundation showing “The Seedling,” a short film that explains the challenges white pines face and how this local […]
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Tootsie is one of nine cats at the shelter right now. She is a beautiful 1-year-old brown tiger medium hair who has lived with other cats. Tootsie is spayed, micro chippeded for FIV, and vaccinated. She is at the El Dorado County Animal Services shelter in Meyers, along with other dogs and cats who are […]
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By Lake Tahoe News Lake Tahoe Community College has set up a pantry of nonperishable foods and hygiene products for students in need. “It’s meant to address the very real problem of community college students struggling with learning due to hunger. There’s all kinds of evidence that shows that when college students don’t have their […]
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By Joseph W. Mead, The Conversation Thousands of U.S. cities restrict panhandling in some way. These ordinances limit face-to-face soliciting, including interactions that occur on sidewalks and alongside roads, whether they are verbal or involve holding a sign. According to a growing string of court decisions, however, laws that outlaw panhandling are themselves illegal. In […]
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By Brianna Calix, Fresno Bee Heat waves, droughts and floods are climate trends that will force California farmers to change some practices — including what they grow — to continue producing yields that historically have fed people nationwide, a new study by the University of California says. Researchers reviewed 89 studies on California climate trends […]
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By Ryan Sabalow and Phillip Reese, Sacramento Bee Several local school districts and the University of California system received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the National Rifle Association between 2010 and 2016. The money, in the form of grants from the NRA Foundation, thrusts what were once largely non-controversial gun- and hunting-safety programs and […]
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By Becky Bohrer, AP Taking a cue from the fight over immigration, some states that have legalized marijuana are considering providing so-called sanctuary status for licensed pot businesses, hoping to protect the fledgling industry from a shift in federal enforcement policy. Just hours after U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced on Jan. 4 that federal […]
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