By Jeff Barnard, AP GRANTS PASS, Ore. — Wildlife advocates are preparing to retrace the 1,200-mile path of a wandering wolf whose trek in 2011 across Oregon and California attracted worldwide attention, hoping their upcoming journey will help build greater acceptance of wolves as they reclaim lost territories across the West. The wolf, dubbed OR-7 […]
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By Trevon Milliar, Las Vegas Review-Journal The vast majority of Nevada students struggle to read, conceded several local education officials on Tuesday. They didn’t debate the data. They focused on how to change it. Federal assessments show only 30 percent of Nevada eighth-graders read at the level they should, slightly more than the 27 percent […]
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The South Lake Tahoe DMV office is temporarily closing for renovations starting March 26 at noon. During the long weekend of renovation crews will replace the carpet, upgrade the testing area, and install a window in the control cashier room. Other renovations will be made to bring the office to ADA compliance. The South Lake […]
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Tahoe Arts Project is bringing the Celtic trio Golden Bough to St. Theresa Catholic Church on March 27 at 6:30pm. Golden Bough captures the essence of America’s best-loved folk music, with an array of acoustic instruments and pristine three-part harmony. Sing along, clap along, or just sit back and enjoy, as Golden Bough blends Celtic […]
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Robert Ballard is known for his discoveries of the wrecks of the RMS Titanic, the battleship Bismarck, the aircraft carrier USS Yorktown and President John F. Kennedy’s PT-109. The famous ocean explorer is the final speaker in this year’s Discover Science Lecture Series at UNR on April 3. Ballard is a former Navy officer and […]
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By Kathryn Reed PLACERVILLE – DNA, motive and crime scene tactics will play a prominent role in the prosecution and defense of Andrew Sanford. Nearly two years to the day after being arrested in the 1980 murder of Richard Swanson, Sanford went on trial March 18 in El Dorado County Superior Court before Judge James […]
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By Carolyn E. Wright As an attorney in the Lake Tahoe area who represents photographers and who also is a photographer, I am concerned about the rights of photographers. The Nevada Division of State Parks will have a public hearing at the Richard Bryan Building, 901 S. Stewart St., Carson City, 2nd floor Tahoe hearing […]
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Dennis Franks is making a habit of being a no-show for court appearances. The former owner of Broc’s Puppies in South Lake Tahoe didn’t appear for his March 18 preliminary hearing. In June 2011 he failed to appear for an arraignment. Retired El Dorado County Superior Court Judge Jerry Lasarow, who now acts as a […]
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Authorities are looking for a dog that bit a South Lake Tahoe man. The man, whose name has not been released, saw the Husky-type dog on March 16 about 6pm near Tahoe Keys Boulevard and Washington Avenue. When he went to read the dog’s tag it bit him. El Dorado County Animal Services said the […]
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By Laila Kearney, Reuters SAN FRANCISCO — California is coming off of its warmest winter on record, aggravating an enduring drought in the most populous state, federal weather scientists said Monday. The state had a average temperature of 48 for December, January and February, an increase from 47.2 F in 1980-81, the last hottest winter, […]
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