By Kathryn Reed Placer County sheriff’s deputies are trying to get to the bottom of an incident involving a 12-year-old who nearly died after ingesting water that reportedly had the drug molly in it. Signs were placed along bike trails in Tahoe City asking people for information and to call A.W.A.R.E. No one from A.W.A.R.E. […]
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· Washoe County Sheriff’s Office is having an open house on Sept. 29 from 10am-3pm in Reno. · High Fives Foundation’s 8th annual Bocce Tournament at Truckee River Winery in Truckee is Sept. 18 beginning at 10am. The cost is $125 per two-person team. Space is limited to the first 40 teams to register. Go online to sign up. […]
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A South Shore man is an induced coma after being run over by his wife in their driveway. Teresa Anderson, 58, told El Dorado County sheriff’s deputies that it was an accident. Investigators are still trying to determine if it was intentional or an accident. Anderson was arrested that night, Aug. 26, on assault with […]
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By Daniel Rothberg, Las Vegas Sun Beneath a purple glow, in a warehouse sharing the street with two indistinguishable strip malls, Kevin Biernacki is growing around 100 pounds of medical marijuana. The purpose of this facility, owned by The Grove, is no different than other cultivation sites in Nevada. Yet, the roughly 480 industrial lamps […]
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By Kathryn Reed President Obama will be using Marine One to fly into Lake Tahoe Airport on Wednesday for the 20th annual Lake Tahoe Environmental Summit. He is the keynote speaker at the confab at Harveys in Stateline that starts at 1:30pm Aug. 31. The summits started in 1997 with then President Bill Clinton and […]
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To the community, We welcome President Obama to Lake Tahoe, which is admired for its great depth and clarity and beautiful alpine surroundings. As Tahoe’s public water agencies, we are hard at work on a water infrastructure initiative to enhance critical preparedness needs and hazard mitigation in the wildland urban interface against the threat of […]
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By Kathryn Reed INCLINE VILLAGE – Economically, wine is huge for California – it’s a $58 billion industry, attracts 24 million tourists a year and employees 30,000 people. But it’s not the most environmentally friendly crop. UC Davis wants to change that reality. Jill Brigham, executive director of the Sustainable Wine and Food Processing Center […]
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By Rosalyn Eves For the first few years of her life, Sarah Winnemucca, who was born around 1844, did not know that she was American. Born Thocmetony (Shell Flower) among the Numa (known among whites as the Northern Paiute or “digger” Indians), she roamed with her people over western Nevada and eastern Oregon, gathering plants […]
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By Ellen Kincimeyer, AP Two types of yellow-legged frogs, and a kind of toad found in Yosemite National Park, won extra protection Thursday when federal authorities declared nearly 3,000 square miles in California’s Sierra Nevada mountains as critical habitat for the endangered animals. The designation by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service means closer controls […]
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A 39-year-old El Dorado County man died in his cell at the El Dorado County Jail in Placerville. Dennis Renk was found unresponsive on Aug. 27 at 12:24am. He had been in custody for nearly 10 months on a murder charge. Renk was accused of killing 56-year-old Langley Pratt of Camino. The two had been […]
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