Smoke that is visible in parts of South Lake Tahoe is from a grass fire near West Way and Highway 89. About a quarter acre burned. It is under control. The U.S. Forest Service is the lead agency. Cheva Heck with the USFS said the cause at this time is unknown. The fire was first […]
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By Kathryn Reed Five people from Fresno who were in South Lake Tahoe for a birthday celebration died Saturday when their plane sputtered and then nosedived into a field just after taking off at 9:45pm. Francisco de la Mora, who owned the Piper Cherokee, was piloting the single-engine fixed wing craft. Shannon D. Fleck is […]
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With the completion of $130,311 in energy improvements, South Lake Tahoe expects to see an annual savings of $19,623 by reducing kilowatt hours by 186,889. The improvements were paid for by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Energy Efficiency Conservation Block Program under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Approximately 150 lights at the Motor Pool […]
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Updated Aug. 26 3:17pm: Javier de la Mora has told KOLO-TV in Reno that his brother Francisco de la Mora was piloting the plane that crashed in South Lake Tahoe on Saturday night. The pilot is one of the registered owners of the plane. The four others on board are believed to be de la […]
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By Ed Fletcher, Sacramento Bee As county officials work to implement state legislation requiring tattoo and piercing shops to register and pass a battery of tests, some area practitioners question the need for the new regulations and ask whether the government will crack down on underground artists. AB300 created California inspection and registration protocols for […]
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By Martin Griffith, AP A mountain lion that was caught after trying to enter a Reno casino is back in the wild. The 2-year-old male cougar was released into the Carson Range above Lake Tahoe’s East Shore on Saturday morning, said Chris Healy, spokesman for the Nevada Department of Wildlife. “He was fully ready to […]
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By Torey Van Oot, Sacramento Bee California’s top Republican operatives are busy raising millions of dollars to pump into the state’s most competitive races. But this election, many of the checks aren’t being made out to the California Republican Party. A new crop of independent committees and fundraising efforts created to support Republican candidates are […]
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Anchor stores in the Bijou Center in South Lake Tahoe have changed through the years. TRPA was not around in 1965 to regulate the color scheme. Why the yellow painted ovals on the roadway in 1965? — Bill Kingman
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By Dan Walters, Sacramento Bee When Gov. Jerry Brown labeled the state budget a “pretzel palace of incredible complexity,” he almost certainly had in mind the budget’s largest, most complicated piece – financing schools. Proposition 98, a measure that barely won voter approval in 1988, supposedly dictates what schools and their 6 million students are […]
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By Cy Ryan, Las Vegas Sun CARSON CITY — A Las Vegas assemblyman says the policy of some casinos to force table games dealers to share tips with others isn’t fair, and he wants the 2013 Legislature to examine the issue. Assemblyman Joseph Hogan, D-Las Vegas, calls tip-sharing an “inappropriate intrusion” on what dealers earn […]
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