By Kevin Yamamura, Sacramento Bee Gov. Jerry Brown’s administration for two years has devoted a share of new fire fees to a special unit that chases fire starters, a funding arrangement the Legislature’s attorney considers illegal. State leaders indicated in 2011 that they would use annual fire fees for preventive measures such as inspecting forest […]
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Kiss the blue skies goodbye because winter is returning. Wind, snow and cold are in the forecast beginning Thursday and continuing through Friday. The cold front will bring winds gusts of 40 mph in the Lake Tahoe Basin and 75 mph on the ridges. “Temperatures will plummet Friday into the weekend with highs around 10-15 […]
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The 60-day comment period for the Upper Truckee Marsh project opens Feb. 7. The California Tahoe Conservancy is putting forward four alternatives for the South Shore property, with a fifth being sticking with the status quo. No preferred alternative has been designated. (More about the project may be found in this Oct. 26, 2012, Lake […]
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By Annie Murphy Paul, Time The sophomore sat paralyzed as the minutes ticked by. One hour later, time was up for the exam in a statistics class at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and he turned in his work: it was completely blank, save for his name. As any parent or teacher knows, tests […]
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The Tahoe Douglas Fire Protection District Board of Trustees voted unanimously to accept a $2.7 million grant to restaff Engine 24 in Zephyr Cove by hiring 12 firefighters. Engine 24 has not been staffed because of reduced funding and the loss of personnel due to attrition. The engine is expected to be back in service […]
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By CBS-DC WASHINGTON — The U.S. Postal Service is discontinuing delivery of first class mail on Saturdays by Aug. 1. Priority mail and packages will still be delivered six days a week. The move is expected to save the financially struggling agency roughly $2 billion annually. While delivery of traditional mail has declined steadily, the […]
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Expect mostly sunny skies today, though the temperature is dropping. Here is the Feb. 6 ski report. — Curtis Fong
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By Kathryn Reed A July 1981 agreement to keep a South Lake Tahoe parcel designated open space may go by the wayside to get the city out of a lawsuit that resulted from a former employee wrongly granting a building permit for the site. While Deputy City Attorney Nira Feeley pleaded her opinion to the […]
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