By Mike Luery, KCRA-TV A cellphone video that has been seen more than 5 million times after KCRA 3 shared it on Facebook Tuesday. It shows a mother bear and her two cubs swimming at Pope Beach in Lake Tahoe, near Camp Richardson. It’s not every day you see a family of bears playing in […]
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By Kathryn Reed City of South Lake Tahoe retirees have been denied monetary compensation from a lawsuit they filed last year over health benefits. A group calling themselves the South Lake Tahoe Retirees Association filed the suit in December in U.S. District Court in Sacramento. Who is in this group has not been revealed. However, […]
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By Alison Noon, AP SACRAMENTO — Campaigns supporting and opposing California’s 17 ballot initiatives have reported raising at least $65 million from April through June, according to paperwork filed this week with the secretary of state. The total does not include money spent by people not coordinated with official ballot campaigns. The vast majority of […]
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By Melody Gutierrez, San Francisco Chronicle SACRAMENTO — A poll found that California voters strongly support the landmark state law adopted a decade ago to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, and that voters favor expanding efforts to fight climate change. The Public Policy Institute of California survey released last week shows 62 percent of likely voters favor […]
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By Associated Press Californians conserved less water in June, the first month after statewide mandates were eased and control over drought restrictions returned to local water agencies, officials said Tuesday. The State Water Resources Control Board reported that Californians used 21.5 percent less water in June than they did in 2013, a drop of 6 […]
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By Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazette-Journal Forecasters expect worsening fire conditions across Nevada and California for at least several more weeks. That’s according to the latest National Wildland Fire Potential Outlook released on Monday. The forecast, from the National Interagency Fire Center, attempts to gauge the potential for wildland fires based on temperature, moisture and fuel availability […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe City Councilwoman JoAnn Conner has agreed to drop her lawsuit against the city. In December, Conner filed the lawsuit seeking to have the censure imposed on her in October by her four council colleagues be overturned. The censure came about because the council believed Conner’s behavior toward staff was […]
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By Susan Wood STATELINE – Louise Feller is all too familiar with overcoming adversity. That’s why when she decided to attend her sixth Olympic Games as a volunteer, the notion of particular challenges associated with Rio in 2016 left her unfazed. After all, she worked the Games in Athens with a broken leg – the […]
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By Steve Scauzillo, San Gabriel Valley Tribune Each year, Americans throw out 66 billion pounds of food — organic material wasting away at the bottom of a landfill. While successful programs recycle tons of aluminum cans, glass, plastic, cardboard, and newspaper and help account for 63 percent of waste diverted from landfills in California, you […]
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By Tim Johnson, McClatchy News Service Who made the United States into a refuge for secretive shell companies? Look toward Congress to find politicians who helped turn Nevada into a major home for shell companies, which can be used to evade taxes and hide illegal assets from around the world. Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., now […]
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