Publisher’s note: Lake Tahoe News asked both candidates for El Dorado County Superior Court judge to write a guest column. To date the incumbent is the only one to do so. The election is June 7. By Nelson Brooks I am honored and proud to be one of your judges here in El Dorado County. […]
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By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Money Starting later this year, millions more workers will become eligible for overtime pay. Under a new rule announced by the White House Tuesday, anybody making a salary of less than $47,476 ($913 a week) will automatically qualify for overtime pay when they work more than 40 hours a week. That’s […]
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Don’t believe everything you think: How our thoughts affect mood and behavior is the subject of a June 9 talk at Sierra Nevada College. Karin Sable is a licensed marriage and family therapist providing mental health and counseling services in the Truckee-Tahoe area. She will talk about how negative thoughts are a normal part of […]
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By Paul Rogers, Mercury News The natural landscape of the American West is gradually disappearing under a relentless march of new subdivisions, roads, oil and gas production, agricultural operations and other human development, according to a detailed mapping study released Tuesday. From 2001 to 2011, an area totaling 4,321 square miles — or 15 times […]
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A building at the end of Kahle Drive burned for the better part of this week before firefighters fully extinguished it. This was because Tahoe Douglas firefighters were training. They had access to the Kingsbury Grade Improvement District building that is no longer in use near the old trailer park in Stateline. “We have […]
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· Truckee Police Department has added an electric motorcycle to the fleet. It is part of an effort to use alternative-powered vehicles, reduce emissions and noise pollution. Grants paid for it. · Longtime Placer County elections employee Ryan Ronco was appointed to the top elections job by the Board of Supervisors May 17. · The […]
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Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest is expecting a busy Memorial Day weekend. With its 6.3 million acres, the Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest is the largest national forest in the lower 48 states. Most forest recreation sites have opened for the season, with the remainder expected to open later in the summer as the snow in higher elevations melt. […]
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By Kelley McMillan, National Geographic On a sunny morning in late February, Tom Slocum, a 57-year-old ski bum in Telluride, Colo., walked up Tomboy Road, a popular hiking route that winds above the north side of town. An avid athlete and skier, Slocum moved to Telluride in 1984, a couple of years after graduating college. Like […]
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A South Lake Tahoe man is going to spend the next 14 years in prison for sexually abusing disabled children. Allan Delisle, 69, was sentenced May 19 by El Dorado County Superior Court Judge Suzanne Kingsbury. Delisle was arrested arrested Aug. 19 on charges of lewd and lascivious acts with a child, oral copulation of a […]
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A lake wind advisory didn’t deter people from kayaking at Lake Tahoe on Thursday, but it did mean they needed rescuing. North Lake Tahoe Fire and Washoe County Sheriff’s teams pulled a woman from the water near Sand Harbor on May 19 about 10:30am after her kayak overturned. Her name and hometown have not been […]
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