By Cathy Locke, Sacramento Bee A Placer County sheriff’s off-highway vehicle enforcement operation turned into a rescue effort Saturday when deputies encountered an ill U.S. Forest Service employee. Sheriff’s deputies were on off-highway vehicle patrol in the backcountry near Foresthill when they stopped at the Duncan Peak fire lookout, where they discovered a Forest Service […]
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By Kathryn Reed Even though there is less actual beach in the basin, those using it keep leaving the same amount of trash. For the past three years volunteers have picked up about 1,600 pounds of trash on July 5 – the day after the busiest day of the year for Tahoe beaches. This doesn’t […]
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Nine days after a man was found lying in a South Lake Tahoe street unresponsive with a significant head injury he remains hospitalized and his assailant on the loose. Police on July 5 finally are asking for the public’s help in regards to the June 26 incident. Adam Albaugh, 23, of Pennsylvania was found on […]
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The South Lake Tahoe Police Department was kept busy during this year’s 4th of July celebration, although officers said it was a relatively well behaved crowd. During the 24-hour period starting at 6am July 4 officers responded to 70 calls for police service. They included: 18-Disturbance 5-Homeless/transient 1-Traffic collision 6-Battery on person 2-Public intoxication 2- […]
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Employees of South Tahoe Public Utility District are expected to receive a 2½ percent raise for each of the next four years. The board of directors at the July 6 meeting is set to vote on the contracts for employees. “A survey of total compensation of industry comparable agencies will be conducted in the second […]
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By Amelia Pak-Harvey, Las Vegas Review-Journal Worst in the nation. Or, at least, among the worst. That’s the reputation of Nevada’s K-12 public education system. The label hangs over teachers who come to work here, over every test score — even over some students, who are keenly aware of the status of their public […]
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A 61-year-old man died in a single-vehicle rollover accident in Markleeville on July 3. The Moundhouse resident was driving a Ford pickup east on Airport Road when he drifted off the pavement at about 3:30pm. The vehicle went down a steep dirt embankment and then flipped onto the roof. The driver died at the scene. […]
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People will have the opportunity to walk or ride their bikes on the newest section of Interstate 580 in Carson City before it opens to vehicular traffic. The new section of freeway is scheduled to open in August. On July 22 between 9am and noon anyone on two feet or two wheels can go on […]
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By Associated Press CARSON CITY — Frustrated with a lack of input from insurance companies on how to keep thousands of Nevadans from being kicked off the health exchange, Gov. Brian Sandoval wrote to four industry executives on last week, calling them to his office and insisting they work with state officials to find a […]
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By Susan Wood Just look around. After winter’s peaks and valleys, visitors from the San Francisco Bay Area to the far reaches of the planet appear on track to bask on Lake Tahoe’s shores and mountains. South Lake Tahoe transient occupancy tax collections shot up as early as April this year to $744,565, amounting to […]
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