By Melissa Siig, Moonshine Ink At 5:45 one morning in early June, Tahoe Vista resident Brent Thrams parked his truck in front of the grove of cottonwood trees near the entrance to Christy Hill restaurant in Tahoe City. Thrams, who was accompanied by two others, was not there to watch the sun rise over Lake […]
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By KCRA-TV Two South Lake Tahoe sisters who were reported missing Wednesday after their parents had not heard from the girls for several days have been found safe, according to the girls’ father. Melissa Lea, 18, and Kalila Lea, 7, were found when people at a grocery store in Prineville, Oregon recognized the sisters, the […]
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By Cynthia Hubert, Sacramento Bee Volunteers counted 146 more people living homeless in Placer County this year compared to a similar census in 2015. That translates to a 28 percent increase in the county’s homeless population during the past two years. But officials said the numbers may be misleading. The number of homeless people documented […]
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· Hot Spring Spa has reopened its Zephyr Cove store, so that means there are hot tubs models to check out as well as all the supplies to keep it running. · Bradley Hurley has been hired to be Douglas County’s assistant county manager; annual salary will be $105,000. · Rep. Mark Amodei, R-Nev., is […]
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By Tracy Protell As children get ready to go back to school, I understand bullying is one of the last things parents want to worry about. However, bullying is a salient and, unfortunately, common occurrence. It can take place on school grounds, after school, and through electronics (cyberbullying). Bullying is defined as a repetitive and […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE — It was a lively conversation about a deadly situation at Wednesday’s Tahoe Region Planning Agency Governing Board meeting. Trees took up the morning session; specifically dead trees and what is being done about them. One good winter didn’t cure what ails Lake Tahoe’s forests – or those throughout the Sierra. […]
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By Jennifer McGraw, CBS13 An Austrian hiker was struck by lightning Tuesday near Donner Summit and survived. He is now recovering at UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento. Paramedic Matt Calcutt with CHP said he has never seen anything like it, the boulder looked like it had exploded into small desks across the ridge. Calcutt […]
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To the community, One, do we really need another gas station in Meyers? Meyers has about 10 percent of the population of South Lake Tahoe, but 15 percent of the gas stations. The market isn’t expanding, so why dilute the existing market? Two, by diluting said market, the existing businesses in Meyers will see a […]
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By Christopher Solomon, Outside More than 99.2 percent of the people who commented on President Donald Trump’s national-monuments review were in complete agreement: Leave the monuments alone. That’s the stunning result of a detailed new survey on the comments that the federal government solicited after Trump issued an executive order earlier this year to revisit the status of 27 national […]
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By KCRA-TV Two South Lake Tahoe sisters were reported missing Wednesday after their parents had not heard from the girls for several days. Melissa, 18, and 7-year-old Kalila Lea were known to be at the Symbiosis Event in Big Summit Prairie, Ore., for the eclipse, the Crook County Sheriff’s Office said. Their parents last heard […]
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