By Melanie Mason, Los Angeles Times Cities and counties will no longer be able to impose fines on residents for unsightly brown lawns while the state is in a drought, under a bill signed by Gov. Jerry Brown. The measure, by Assemblywoman Cheryl Brown, D-Rialto, prohibits local governments from issuing fines for violations of “lawn […]
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By Kathryn Reed A police officer with 10 years of experience who joined the South Lake Tahoe department in January is responsible for the killing of an unarmed suspect in June. Officer Josh Klinge, 35, remains on paid administrative leave. Officers were called to the Tahoe Hacienda Motel on Lake Tahoe Boulevard at 2:40am June […]
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By Sophie Mattson, San Jose Mercury News Laura Jaramillo woke up one morning in the summer of 2005 and sensed something was horribly wrong. After going to the hospital, she fell into a coma and spent six weeks fighting for her life — waking up to find her right side paralyzed. Doctors were baffled until […]
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By John Wildermuth, San Francisco Chronicle With more and more California voters casting ballots by mail, the neighborhood polling place is becoming one of the loneliest spots in town on election day, forcing local and state officials to puzzle out what to do about it. In the June 2014 statewide primary, 69 percent of the […]
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By Jeff DeLong, Reno Gazette-Journal Authorities are investigating the shooting death of a bear at Lake Tahoe last week and say they already know who did it. The unidentified South Lake Tahoe resident said he shot the black bear Thursday night in self-defense, said Capt. Patrick Foy of the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. […]
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By Mathis Wackernagel, Sacramento Bee The drought in California has made the economic risks of living beyond the means of nature all too clear. Just last month, estimates pegged the state’s economic losses from the drought at $2.7 billion, an enormous number that still fails to capture the toll on individual farmers and farmworkers. Water, […]
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By Lisa Girion, Los Angeles Times Standing in the pulpit above Austin Klimusko’s casket three years ago, his mother used his death to draw the connection between pills from a pharmacy and drugs from the street. “When his prescriptions dried up, he turned to heroin,” Susan Klimusko said in a frank eulogy meant as a […]
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By Terra Breeden STATELINE – It was all fun and fiddles Saturday at the inaugural Bluegrass Festival on the South Shore, part of the Hard Rock’s summer concert series. Thousands of people came to enjoy the all-day event and dance to the twanging tunes of an all-star lineup of bluegrass bands, which included New Monsoon, […]
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By Toogee Sielsch On July 9, a family living on Minniconjou Drive in a neighborhood off Pioneer Trail in South Lake Tahoe had the pleasure of enjoying seeing one of our furry forest denizens cruising through their neighborhood. These are the kind of folks who feel getting a view from a safe distance of one […]
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By J.D. Morris, Las Vegas Sun Although Nevada casinos don’t make nearly as much money from slots as they did before the recession hit, the machines are starting to make a comeback. Slot revenue dropped sharply in 2008 and 2009, much like the rest of the state’s gambling business, and still remains far below its […]
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