By Tony Bizjak, Sacramento Bee State highway officials are laying the groundwork for a $50 million safety upgrade of Highway 50 east of Placerville, a continuation of decadeslong efforts to modernize one of the oldest mountain highways in the state. The key element will be installation of two miles of concrete median divider to separate […]
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A 23-year-old Markleeville sustained moderate injuries after being ejected from the vehicle she was driving. Kaitlin Shanahan was driving north on Highway 89 north Markleeville at an unknown rate of speed on Dec. 11 at 2:10pm when she drifted off the road onto the dirt, rock embankment. The GMC Sierra struck a tree, overturned and […]
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By Glen Meek, Las Vegas Sun There are no official numbers, but anecdotal reports suggest a new law could have serious consequences for some commuters on Nevada roads. The law requires all mopeds (often called scooters) to be registered. While it won’t take effect until Jan. 1, the Department of Motor Vehicles began the inspection […]
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By Kathryn Reed A one-sided presentation was delivered to the South Lake Tahoe City Council on Tuesday about how bad marijuana is, with most speakers advocating for the city to have as little to do with recreational aspects of the drug as possible. What they said: · Police Chief Brian Uhler: It will hurt the […]
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By Jerry Nickelsburg The Trump victory may well spell the end of America’s previous Pacific Rim aspirations. We will quite possibly see a significant shift of innovation and entrepreneurship westward in the Pacific Rim—indeed, so far West that the center of economic gravity ends up firmly in the Far East. There are two big reasons […]
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By Elin McCoy, Bloomberg The Kingston, Ontario, town crier, in fur-trimmed tricorn hat and bright red coat, rang a brass bell and shouted “Hear ye, hear ye” as the lead-in to my most surprising tasting this year: “The Judgement of Kingston.” The blind competition last month pitted such top California Chardonnays as Chateau Montelena against […]
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By Ryan Collingwood, Hagadone News Network Robert Parks toed the California-Mexico border in May, the beginning of his 2,600-mile hiking excursion on the Pacific Crest Trail. The 32-year-old Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, man trained for weeks in north Idaho forests for the beautiful and equally arduous journey set to conclude in Canada. When Parks reached Lake Tahoe, […]
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By Kathryn Reed “I’m not going to shut down. I will fight to the Supreme Court.” That is what Cody Bass, founder and executive director of Tahoe Wellness Cooperative, told Lake Tahoe News after the South Lake Tahoe City Council today unanimously denied his appeal. Bass was appealing City Manager Nancy Kerry’s ruling that he […]
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The leadership of the South Lake Tahoe City Council is essentially remaining the same for the next year. Austin Sass and Wendy David swapped chairs on Dec. 13; so now Sass is mayor and David is mayor pro tem. The five electeds have the responsibility to decide among themselves who the mayor and mayor pro […]
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The skier who died last weekend in an avalanche at Mt. Rose has been identified as Thomas Barker of Aptos. The 64-year-old had hiked up to the chutes are of the Reno area resort on Dec. 10. As he skied into the area, going under the ropes in the closed area, he triggered the avalanche. […]
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