El Dorado County sheriff’s deputies are taking a proactive approach to stopping what has become a regular crime — stealing packages from porches. Undercover detectives will be delivering bait packages filled with fake electronics and GPS devices to residences across El Dorado County. The county is partnering with the U.S. Postal Service in this operation. […]
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By Kathryn Reed Lake Tahoe Golf Course’s footprint will not be expanding any time soon. This is because Washoe Meadows Community prevailed in court against California State Parks. Nearly six years to the day after the initial lawsuit was filed in Alameda Superior Court, the First District Court of Appeal this month upheld the lower […]
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The winner of the 2017 Tahoe National Forest photo contest is “Celestial Wilderness” by Joseph Dondelinger of Foresthill. Second place is “Dreamy Nights,” also by Dondelinger, and third place is “Mountain Biking Into the Light on the Lavezzola Creek Trail” by Jeff Barker. The winning image was of Castle Peak in the moonlight. According to […]
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By Matt Weiser, Water Deeply Chemical fire retardants are considered a vital wildland firefighting tool, helping to slow the spread of flames while ground crews move into position. But as their use increases, the harmful side effects of these chemicals are coming under increasing scrutiny. The chemicals, usually dropped from low-flying aircraft, largely consist of ammonia […]
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By Chris Kudialis, Las Vegas Sun Legalization of marijuana in eight states — including Nevada — in last year’s election has opened the floodgates for pot businesses to make money. That’s according to more than a dozen business owners whose products are both directly marketed at buyers in the pot sector, and in similar industries […]
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Caltrans is replacing three overhead changeable message signs with new advanced variable message signs. The new signs will be installed in the following locations: Interstate 80 westbound – Truckee – Donner Pass Road/Highway 89 Interstate 80 westbound – Davis – Pole Line Road bridge Highway 50 eastbound – El Dorado Hills – Latrobe Road. Full […]
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By Kathryn Reed OLYMPIC VALLEY – November skiing is always something to be thankful for in the Sierra because Mother Nature seems to be so fickle in the fall. Out of the last five years, this is the most terrain Squaw Valley has had open this time of year. It’s obvious there has been a […]
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For the second time in five years South Tahoe High School math instructor Paul Kushner has been placed on administrative leave. In 2013 it had to do with him looking at inappropriate websites of scantily clad women while he was at work. No one in the district is saying why the tenured teacher is out […]
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By Larry Weitzman Placerville has a major ongoing problem. Illegally issued parking tickets, and it’s not like they didn’t know. Because the 2000-01 El Dorado County Grand Jury considered the legality of how parking tickets were issued, to say the city “fathers” didn’t know, is like saying “I didn’t know it was illegal to steal,” […]
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By Leila Fadel, NPR Marquan Ellis was evicted from his home in Las Vegas when he was 18. His mother battled with a drug and gambling addiction while he stayed at his godmother’s house. But he couldn’t stay there forever. He found his way to the Nevada Partnership for Homeless Youth where he enrolled in […]
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