By Kathryn Reed Tahoe’s isn’t likely to be barren anytime soon, but the type of moisture it receives in the future will be in the form of rain instead of snow, according to scientists. That’s one outcome of climate change. This in turn has consequences such as storage issues, flooding, more dry days than wet, […]
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To the community, My name is Morgan and I’ve been in search of my grandfather for the past 10 years. I was hoping if I provided some information maybe someone would remember him. The story takes place in Zephyer Cove between 1961-1963 at what was once The Shoals restaurant owned by Jean and Herman Strucker. […]
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By USSA Lindsey Jacobellis (Stratton Mountain, Vt.) added a fourth World Championship title to her long list of snowboarding accolades and Nick Baumgartner (Iron River, Mich) collected his second World Championships bronze medal in Kreischberg on Friday. Experience was the key to success for Jacobellis and Baumgartner, who both fought hard battles to land on […]
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By Bill Lindelof, Sacramento Bee Placer County Sheriff’s detectives have made an arrest in a 24-year-old cold case involving the execution-style killings of a Placer County couple. Joseph Victor Foster, 54, was arrested at Correctional Training Facility on Wednesday where he was serving a 50-years-to-life sentence for the 2006 kidnapping and raping of a family […]
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Washoe County Sheriff’s Office Citizen Corps is offering a free emergency preparedness and response training academy beginning Jan. 22. The Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Academy provides residents with the information to help save lives and reduce trauma in the event of an emergency. CERT Academy training includes disaster preparedness, emergency medical techniques, fire safety, […]
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By Ed Joyce, Capital Public Radio The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said the drought that started in 2011 in California will linger into summer. NOAA reports that after nearly four years of drought, the California water deficit can only be made up by “epic amounts of rain and snow” and that isn’t likely to […]
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One of South Lake Tahoe’s first directors of Parks and Recreation, Victor Keith Gottschalk, has died. He was 79. Mr. Gottschalk died at his home in Reno on Dec. 2. He was born Jan. 12, 1935. His career spanned more than three decades as director of parks and recreation in Merced and South Lake Tahoe. […]
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Longtime Meyers resident Albert Morch died in his sleep Christmas morning. After retiring from a career in the newspaper business in San Francisco, he moved to Meyers where he lived for the past 28 years. Morch joined the San Francisco Examiner, then a Hearst publication, in 1976 as a society writer. He wrote his influential […]
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By Will Evans, Center for Investigative Reporting Not many workers can rack up almost two years of paid vacation time. Yet two California state officials have done just that and stand to cash out their vacation for hundreds of thousands of dollars when they quit or retire. They are the top vacation hoarders in a […]
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By Evan Halper, Los Angeles Times As the majority of California voters grow comfortable with the idea of pot legalization, their senior senator in Washington is making it clear that she most certainly is not. Dianne Feinstein is emerging as one of Washington’s toughest critics of the Obama administration’s tolerance for marijuana use. Long a […]
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