Truckee police officers are looking for a man they believe stole more than $100,000 worth of property from local business owners. Richard Anthony Lenning, 37, is suspected of stealing numerous vehicles and then using them to ram the front door for the purpose of committing commercial burglary. A felony no-bail warrant has been issued. Lenning […]
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· The Truckee Marathon (and half marathon) are Sept. 24. For more info, go online. · More than a dozen pets found homes last month when designer Scott Corridan stepped up to sponsor the adoption fees at the Humane Society of Truckee-Tahoe. · There will be a workshop in Truckee about transit on Sept. 11 […]
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By CBS/AP Global SuperTanker Service’s Boeing 747-400 marked its first use in the United States after it was activated to fight a California wildfire. The company says CalFire exercised a call-when-needed contract Wednesday to fight a fire in Butte County about 10 miles east of Lake Oroville. At the time, the SuperTanker was at McClellan […]
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By Dale Kasler and Ryan Sabalow Wildfires from the Oregon border to Los Angeles. Temperatures hitting 100 degrees in San Francisco, and higher in Sacramento, capping off the hottest summer in California history. Not to mention two of the most ferocious hurricanes ever recorded. It has to be climate change, right? The answer is a […]
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By Ann Nichols Come to the events center Sept. 7 at 5:30pm to express your concern to the NTPUD board. The 70-year proposed lease (30 years plus two 20-year options) of the North Tahoe Event Center in Kings Beach to Laulima LLC or any of their many affiliates creates huge district liabilities for North Tahoe […]
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By Larry Weitzman Mazda has almost always designed brilliant cars. Perhaps the new Mazda 6 is their best yet and one of the best-looking cars ever put in mass production. Stand back and look at the lines. An aggressive front end, sharp character lines shape the vehicle which terminates in a softer, smooth rounded rear. […]
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Construction has started on repair work for a section of Highway 89 in the Emerald Bay area. The work involves replacing a retaining wall and the extension of an existing barrier slab and rail. The staging area will be at the Eagle Falls parking area alongside southbound Highway 89. Most, if not all, of the […]
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Barton Foundation’s 8th annual Cocktails for a Cause will feature South Lake Tahoe’s best bartenders in a friendly competition to create Tahoe’s best mixed drink. Guests will be able to sample the cocktails throughout the competition, listen to live music and munch on heavy appetizers. The event is Oct. 4 from 5:30-8pm at the Riva […]
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By Kathryn Reed Those who run the South Shore bus system and those who use it know it’s a bumpy ride, at least figuratively. No longer using the never understood BlueGo name, the Tahoe Transportation District is just calling the system by the government body’s name. New buses have the TTD logo and color scheme. […]
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By Joe Mathews No one can know for sure whether any of California’s four National Football League teams—the 49ers, Raiders, Rams, and Chargers—will emerge as big winners in the new season. But we already know who the losers will be: California cities foolish enough to host NFL teams. In the rest of America, major cities […]
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