By Kathryn Reed Most fatalities involving a vehicle in South Lake Tahoe are the result of a bicyclist or pedestrian being hit, not cars crashing into each other. The police department is in the preliminary stages of building a campaign to make people more aware of others who are on the road. The Lake Tahoe […]
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By Bettina Boxall, Los Angeles Times The lawsuits hit the courts within days of the state mailing notices to some Central Valley irrigation districts: They were to stop diverting from rivers and streams because there wasn’t enough water to go around. Unsurprising as the move may be in this fourth year of drought, to the […]
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By Kathryn Reed Before summer is over, a preferred alternative for the Lake Tahoe Airport Master Plan should be selected. The South Lake Tahoe City Council is expected to discuss the matter July 21 or Aug. 4. It was in 1992 that a settlement agreement regarding the master plan was reached. This involved the city, […]
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By Kathryn Reed Three barges loaded with an array of canisters will make their way this morning from Tahoe Keys Marina to a secure holding area near Stateline. Then a small vessel will deliver a slew of pyrotechnics to the barges in anticipation of Saturday’s fireworks display on the South Shore. An 18-wheeler carrying empty […]
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By J.D. Morris, Las Vegas Sun Nevada’s effort to make casino floors feel more like arcades advanced last week as gaming regulators started crafting the rules that will govern the introduction of skill into the state’s slot machines. The Gaming Control Board had its first workshop to receive input on regulations that will implement Senate Bill […]
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By Sammy Caiola, Sacramento Bee A longtime asthma sufferer, Shirley Bittante tries to stay inside when the air district rates conditions outside her Fair Oaks house as “unhealthy.” She may have to spend more time indoors this summer as heat and drought degrade air quality across the state. Bittante, 60, said she’s noticed more […]
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Publisher’s note: This is one in a series of stories Lake Tahoe News will be running leading up to the 50th anniversary of South Lake Tahoe on Nov. 30. They buried Norma Thayer on a Saturday afternoon in May. She died in November 2014. She was interred with 17 friends and relatives remembering her and […]
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By Kathryn Reed A segment of South Lake Tahoe’s past is about to visually disappear from the landscape. A hearings officer with the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency today approved the demolition of all of the buildings at the old Barton Ranch at the Y. Slated for the wrecking ball are the barn, ranch house, guesthouses, cabin, […]
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By Tony Dokoupil, MSNBC MOUNT SHASTA — Throughout parched California, a punishing drought has forced communities to cut back on their water use. Just outside the town of Mount Shasta, however, a private bottling company is about to do the opposite, opening a tap on millions of gallons of the state’s dwindling public resource. The […]
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Publisher’s note: This is one in a random series of stories about what it’s like to go through the South Tahoe Public Utility District turf buyback program. By Kathryn Reed Brittle. That’s my front yard. It’s a yard, but definitely not grass. Friends have come by to offer advice about how to transform it, others have emailed, […]
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