Nearly one year after Derek “Zippy” Penaranda was beaten at Mo’s Place, three people have been accused of killing him. Penaranda, who was from Ripon, was on the South Shore in May 2012 to celebrate his 30th birthday. He got in a fight at the South Lake Tahoe bar. He never recovered from the injuries […]
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By Marc Lifsher, Los Angeles Times SACRAMENTO — A drive to ban most stores from handing out single-use plastic bags got an important boost Monday when the California Grocers Association announced its support for a bill. The measure by state Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Pacoima, would prohibit the bags in grocery stores and pharmacies beginning on […]
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By Kathryn Reed Instead of El Dorado County taking over office space, they repurposed the South Lake Tahoe Senior Center building to the point where the original occupants no longer feel welcome. Tuesday’s South Lake Tahoe City Council meeting was full of people in support of returning the building in the middle of town to […]
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By Kathryn Reed Three businesses that are delivering medicinal marijuana in South Lake Tahoe may be violating the city’s laws. City Manager Nancy Kerry told Lake Tahoe News she found out about the illegal operations on Monday. “If it turns out they are operating a dispensary, they will be shut down,” Kerry said. A man […]
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By Ted Parkhill The Tahoe Grizzlies Bantam hockey team won the state championship on Sunday. The 13- to 15-year-olds entered the April 14 event as the underdogs. But that didn’t slow them down. The boys, who are part of the South Tahoe Amateur Hockey Association, win the California State title at Sharks Ice in San […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – After less than two years on the job, Kathy Hardy is about to retire as forest supervisor of the Eldorado National Forest. While the 605,000-acre forest does not include parts of the Lake Tahoe Basin, it once did. When the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit was created, the Eldorado lost […]
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Four South Lake Tahoe residents who were in Boston for the country’s oldest marathon escaped the bombings unharmed. Two bombs were heard going off near the finish line of the April 15 event just before noon Pacific time. Three people are confirmed dead and 144 injured. “We were between both bombs which were 100 yards […]
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That was no ordinary bald eagle soaring near the Carson Pass on Sunday. Four months ago he couldn’t do that. But thanks to the volunteers and experts at Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care the animal was nursed back to health and on Sunday released back into the wild. The bird came to the South Shore animal […]
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Publisher’s note: This is one of a few stories about construction planned for the Lake Tahoe Basin this summer. On April 16, the South Lake Tahoe City Council will be discussing this summer’s construction plans. The meeting at Lake Tahoe Airport starts at 9am. By Kathryn Reed Bike trails in Tahoe are so bad that […]
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Warning that “winter is in trouble,” 75 Olympic medalists and other winter sports athletes – including White House “Champion of Change” awardee and pro snowboarder Jeremy Jones of Truckee – sent a letter to President Obama urging him to take action on climate and clean energy. Jones was in Washington on April 11 with other […]
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