A South Lake Tahoe woman continues to fight for her life after her vehicle was struck by a driver going the wrong direction on Interstate 80. The collision occurred Oct. 12 about 11:54pm on westbound I-80 near Verdi. According to the Nevada Highway Patrol, James Liston, 39, of Reno entered the freeway in the wrong […]
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South Lake Tahoe Public Utility District customers were without water this morning when a water line was severed. A contractor early Oct. 16 struck a 14-inch line at Cedar Avenue and La Salle Street near the state line. It is not known how many customers were without water. Some just experience low pressure. Service was […]
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By Alexandra Spychalsky, Moonshine Ink When General Manager Jeff Hill walked into Jake’s on the Lake on the morning of Jan. 8, the sound of falling raindrops echoed through the restaurant. But it wasn’t pitter-patter from a storm outside. It was the sound of rushing water coming from inside the restaurant, a literal indoor torrential […]
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By San Francisco Chronicle Latest developments in the North Bay fires: 8am: Firefighter killed in tanker crash: A water tanker crashed on a winding Napa County road near where firefighters are battling the northern edge of the Nuns Fire, and the driver was killed, officials said. 7:15am: Firefighters making progress: The Atlas Fire is now […]
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By Sean Whaley, Las Vegas Review-Journal CARSON CITY — A lawsuit has been filed against Gov. Brian Sandoval over the state’s failure to implement a private gun sale background check approved by voters in November 2016. The lawsuit on behalf of Nevada residents Dale Zusi, Vicki Delatorre and Sydney Gordon was filed Thursday in […]
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China and Sunflower are 3-year-old bonded brothers who need a home together. They were loved in their previous home, but their owner cannot keep them. Their adoption fee has been partially paid. China and Sunflower are neutered, microchipped, tested for FIV, and vaccinated. They are at the El Dorado County Animal Services shelter in Meyers, […]
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By Susan Wood When you’re a county dealing with record voter turnout as El Dorado did last year, you turn to a career record-keeping shoe-in to maintain order in this unpredictable world of government and politics. That is, until you can’t anymore. El Dorado County Registrar of Voters Bill Schultz, 84, has become a guru […]
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By Marc Peruzzi, Outside This is not the beginning of a partisan smear campaign like the seminal “CHENEY SKIS IN JEANS” bumper stickers popular in Jackson Hole in the early aughts. Once upon a time, years before President Trump subscribed to the human-body-as-depletable-battery school of exercise avoidance, he was a skier. His children fondly remember racing […]
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By Marjie Lundstrom, Darrell Smith and Phillip Reese, Sacramento Bee The wildfires ripping through California have at least 20 different names, in 10 different counties. The Tubbs Fire in Sonoma County. The monster Atlas Fire in nearby Napa County. The Cascade Fire in rural Yuba County. And because this is California, with its diverse populations […]
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The Tahoe-Truckee area will be well represented at the state championships in tennis. The NIAA 3A regional championships for the girls and boys high school teams was played in Tahoe Donner in Truckee on Oct. 13-14. The top three singles players and doubles teams go to state in Las Vegas next weekend. Viki Valente of […]
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