By Kathryn Reed Shots have been fired at Tahoe Valley Elementary School. A guy has been seen with a gun. Sirens wail in the distance. Officers in helmets, some carrying AR-15 semi-automatic rifles make their way to the front of the building before entering. A shot goes off as they enter, but they proceed. This […]
Read more
By Laura Myers, Las Vegas Review-Journal Gov. Brian Sandoval on Tuesday accused the Bureau of Land Management of violating Nevadans’ constitutional rights to protest a BLM roundup of cattle on federal land and slammed the agency for creating an “atmosphere of intimidation.” Sandoval called on the BLM to dismantle a so-called “First Amendment Area” the […]
Read more
By Linda Fine Conaboy Sometime soon, if family members have their way, the iconic cluster of buildings at the South Lake Tahoe Y known as the Barton Ranch will become nothing more than a heap of historic rubble. Slated for demolition are the barn, ranch house, guesthouses, cabin, cottage and shed. Even though the property […]
Read more
By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – Despite the show of support from staff and board members, the news out of Whittell High School is not good. Student test scores are going down. Principal Crespin Esquivel delivered the numbers April 8 at the school board meeting. Math and reading scores have been tumbling at all grade levels […]
Read more
By Martin Griffith, AP RENO -— Wild-horse fertility control and sage-grouse habitat conservation are among top priorities in the proposed $1.1 billion budget for the federal Bureau of Land Management. President Obama’s request for the 2015 fiscal year calls for an increase of $2.8 million in funding for the agency’s wild horse and burro program, […]
Read more
Publisher’s note: Lake Tahoe News asked the six El Dorado County supervisor candidates a series of questions. All are the same except for one that is specific to each candidate. The responses are being run in the order they were received by LTN. One candidate chose not to answer the questions. Name: Kevin Brown Age: […]
Read more
By Kathryn Reed A judge on Monday sided with the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency in a lawsuit that would have unraveled the bi-state regulatory agency’s Regional Plan that was adopted in December 2012. In February 2013, the Sierra Club and Friends of the West Shore filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Sacramento to […]
Read more
By Tom Knudson, Sacramento Bee LOS BANOS — Flat as a tabletop, the furrowed, brown farm fields east of this San Joaquin Valley town are some of the most productive on Earth. Every spring, they are planted with a smorgasbord of crops that in one form or another are trucked to grocery stores across America, […]
Read more
By Kathryn Reed Avoiding Tahoe Keys Boulevard this summer might make for a better driving experience. Gerhardt & Berry Construction out of Sparks will begin a water line replacement project the first week of May that could take all summer. The South Tahoe Public Utility District board last week awarded the $3,346,572.70 bid. Nine bids […]
Read more
By Melissa Mylchreest, High Country News Each year, wildfires claim hundreds of homes throughout the West in what’s known as the wildland-urban interface. This issue roars into the national spotlight every summer as footage of engulfed subdivisions flickers on TVs across the country. National fire suppression budgets reach into the billions of dollars every year, […]
Read more