By Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle The summer horror story is a getaway or camping vacation that is overrun with crowds. The vision is fed by year-round traffic nightmares in the Bay Area, Sacramento and other cities, where people jammed shoulder to shoulder can start to feel like an omnipresent condition you can’t escape. Yet with […]
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Mental health kiosks have been placed in several locations in South Lake Tahoe as an educational resource to help direct people to local services. Each kiosk highlights local mental health services available and educational materials. Brochures are in English and Spanish, and will be updated regularly. NAMI officials designed and implemented the kiosks in six South […]
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Two out of the eight registered sex offenders that Truckee police officers checked on this month were found to be violating the law. The violations were for failure to update their current addresses. Both cases have been referred to the Nevada County District Attorney’s Office. Several times a year detectives conduct sex registrant compliance checks […]
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Fourteen students from Lake Tahoe and Carson Valley received $19,500 in scholarships from Barton Memorial Hospital Auxiliary for their academic achievement and plans to pursue a career in medicine or science. Scholarships were awarded to students from Douglas, Whittell, Mt. Tallac, and South Tahoe high schools, and Lake Tahoe Community College. Three students received $2,000 […]
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By Alexander S. Corey and Ben Botkin, Las Vegas Review-Journal The U.S. Supreme Court’s deadlock in a major immigration case Thursday adds another dimension to an already hot election cycle. The question: Will the court’s nondecision — which continues to prohibit thousands of undocumented Nevadans from receiving work permits — galvanize Latino voters angered by […]
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A Bay Area woman hiking the Pacific Crest Trail alone had to be rescued near Showers Lake on Sunday. Jessica Drizen of Oakland called 911 on June 26 saying she was lost. A California Highway Patrol helicopter found her standing near a reflective blanket. She was not injured – just not sure where she was. […]
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A fire in South Lake Tahoe on Monday morning claimed the life a dog and caused substantial damage to one of two buildings that were ablaze. “We have determined that the fire started in the travel trailer located between the two buildings on the property,” Fire Chief Jeff Meston told Lake Tahoe News. “The exact […]
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By Sandra Chereb, Las Vegas Review-Journal CARSON CITY — Most Nevada motorists will have to get new license plates every eight years under a new law that takes effect July 1. Assembly Bill 484 passed by the 2015 Legislature and signed by Gov. Brian Sandoval was requested by law enforcement agencies because too many plates […]
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By Kathryn Reed Saying you didn’t know the rules isn’t good enough. “They don’t understand if takes time and effort to rehabilitate the damage and it is taxpayer dollars that go toward that,” Frank Machler with the U.S. Forest Service said. He’s talking about damage to forestland by motor vehicles. Machler is a law enforcement […]
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By Philippa Levine Shortly after the result of Britain’s referendum on the European Union was declared last week, an academic colleague remarked to me, “the final curse of the Empire is that the imperial dream is destroying the imperial heartland.” Britain’s long association with imperialism was a major undercurrent in the campaign to leave the […]
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