A house in Kirkwood was totally destroyed today because of a gas line. This was the second house to catch fire in seven days because of a gas line. The March 31 incident leveled the house. It was on Dangberg Street, about a half mile from the March 25 explosion. In the first incident the […]
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A 30-year-old South Lake Tahoe man has been arrested in the beating that left another local man fighting for his life. Alberto Ochoa was arrested March 30 in Rancho Cucamonga on charges of robbery, kidnapping and assault with a deadly weapon. He was reportedly driving the Subaru that had been stolen in South Lake Tahoe. […]
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The portion of Highway 50 from Mount Ralston Road to Echo Summit will now be known as the Firefighter Michael “Mikey” Hallenbeck Memorial Highway. The 21-year-old Hallenbeck died in August 2015 fighting the Sierra Fire near Sierra-at-Tahoe. He was a wildland firefighter with the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit. He also worked at the ski […]
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Books from Douglas County’s library might have wheels one day. The goal is to have a mobile library in 2018. It could deliver books and other library materials – even programs – to people who have a hard time reaching the physical library. To date, the Library Foundation has raised $125,000. Another $15,000 is needed […]
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By Krista Langlois, High Country News In the late 1980s, a Japanese scientist named Koji Minoura stumbled on a medieval poem that described a tsunami so large it had swept away a castle and killed a thousand people. Intrigued, Minoura and his team began looking for paleontological evidence of the tsunami beneath rice paddies, and […]
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The Nevada and Placer Counties Resource Advisory Committee is requesting proposals for natural resource improvement projects in the two counties that benefit National Forest System lands. With the two-year reauthorization of the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act, approximately $240,000 is expected to be available this year for RAC-recommended projects. Project proposals may be […]
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By Sean Whaley, Las Vegas Review-Journal CARSON CITY — Opponents of the use of dogs and GPS technology to hunt black bears testified for a bill Thursday to ban the practice in Nevada. The Assembly Natural Resources, Agriculture and Mining Committee heard Assembly Bill 443, which would follow the lead of other Western states, including […]
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Madonna Dunbar, executive director of the Tahoe Water Suppliers Association, an organization of municipal water suppliers in the Lake Tahoe Basin, will give a talk in South Lake Tahoe on April 12. Dunbar will explain which suppliers pump from the lake and how to protect the lake’s water quality for continued future use as a […]
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By Melissa Siig, Moonshine Ink Look around your mudroom or closet or living room. How many hats do you have? If you are like most people, you have a lot. Trucker hats, baseball hats, flat billed hats, you name it — you most likely have one or two or three. And you probably have room […]
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By Jerry Nickelsburg This time of year, the swallows return to Capistrano, and I return to my birthplace, San Francisco, for the city’s annual pre-budget finance conference. For the last few years I have kicked things off with an economic outlook for the coming year, replete with a discussion of risks. This being San Francisco, […]
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