One round is left in the annual American Century Celebrity golf tournament at Edgewood Tahoe. After two days, Stephen Curry, guard with the Golden State Warriors, has the lead. He is one point ahead of Chris Chandler and Jeremy Roenick. This tournament uses the Stableford scoring system. The person with the highest score wins. Here […]
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A 28-year-old South Lake Tahoe man was stabbed to death early Saturday morning and the suspect is at-large. The name of the deceased is being withheld pending notification of family. The confrontation occurred about 3:30am July 20 near the Americana Village on Pioneer Trail. By the time officers arrived, the victim had been transported to […]
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Thieves and vandals have been targeting Liberty Utilities. “We recently had a situation where the thief attempted to steal copper wiring and in the process, cut into some live lines,” Sam Rohn with Liberty Utilities said in a statement. “At the very least, the vandal received a significant electrical shock, but could have been hurt […]
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By Andrew Doughman, Las Vegas Sun In an unprecedented move, two state agencies are arguing that NV Energy should refund its customers a total of about $14.6 million. The state’s Bureau of Consumer Protection and staff at the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada say the utility basically earned too much money last year, so it […]
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Placer County Board of Supervisors will have one of its thrice annual meetings in the Lake Tahoe area July 22. The meeting will begin at 4pm at the Tahoe City Public Utility District offices, 221 Fairway Drive, in Tahoe City. The board will receive a report from the North Lake Tahoe Resort Association on the […]
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Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care vet Kevin Willitts performed surgery on a bear cub Friday. The 6-month-old cub was rescued by BEAR League volunteers, Truckee police and animal control officers near Truckee after it climbed a tree after having been hit by a car about a week earlier. The cub had two broken legs. He is […]
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By Sandra Postel, National Geographic When we flip on a light, we rarely think about water. But electricity generation is the biggest user of water in the United States. Thermoelectric power plants alone use more than 200 billion gallons of water a day – about 49 percent of the nation’s total water withdrawals. Large quantities […]
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By New York Times Kidney disease doesn’t get the attention, funding or concern associated with cancers of the breast or prostate. But it actually kills more Americans – 90,000 a year – than both malignancies combined. Even when it is not fatal, the cost of treating end-stage kidney disease through dialysis or a kidney transplant […]
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By Karen Cheney, CNN Money As they regularly remind us, teens know everything. Money is no exception. In a recent Capital One 360 poll, 87 percent of 12- to 17-year-olds reported knowing at least an average amount about managing finances. Or not. That study also found that 24 percent of them think a debit card […]
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By KCRA-TV A California state agency conducted a sting operation in Sacramento, South Lake Tahoe and in other parts of the state and arrested 79 people on suspicion of contracting home improvement projects without licenses or violating other standards. In Sacramento, 11 people were arrested on suspicion that they were contracting without a license. Two […]
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