By Stephen Baxter, Santa Cruz Sentinel SANTA CRUZ – After three weeks of searches on the sides of Highway 101 and surrounding roads in five counties, Taylor Flynn has not given up hope of finding his mother. Flynn, the 49-year-old publisher of the Tahoe Mountain News in South Lake Tahoe, was one of the last […]
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By Karoun Demirjian, Las Vegas Sun WASHINGTON — Ever since online poker legislation faltered and failed in late 2010, the prevailing wisdom has been that the road to successful passage leads though the Senate, via the collective efforts of Majority Leader Harry Reid and Republican Sens. Dean Heller and Jon Kyl. But on Monday evening, […]
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By Cynthia H. Craft, Sacramento Bee Placer County has seen its first human fatality from West Nile virus this season, a reminder, officials said, of the very real danger posed by the mosquito-borne disease. Howard Stolz, a prominent community volunteer, died Saturday after being hospitalized for 10 days with encephalitis, a severe neuroinvasive condition brought […]
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By Torey Van Oot, Sacramento Bee The race is officially on in the 6th Assembly District. Republican Assembly candidate Andrew Pugno announced Monday that he plans to move forward with his bid to unseat Assemblywoman Beth Gaines, R-Rocklin, on the Nov. 6 ballot, despite an earlier pledge to stop campaigning if another Republican came in […]
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By Kathryn Reed Deficit spending is continuing in South Lake Tahoe for another year and may be what happens in 2013-14, too. The budget the City Council is expected to approve Sept. 18 includes $700,000 from unassigned excess reserves. And while the budget, which goes into effect Oct. 1, is balanced per state law, the […]
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By Kathryn Reed Gino DiMatteo on Sept. 12 was released from El Dorado County jail in Placerville on bail. Ted Long is DiMatteo’s attorney of record. He is working with the Woelfel Law Firm in South Lake Tahoe. Rob Woelfel represented DiMatteo in court Wednesday because Long was out of town, however he was not […]
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By Brooks Barnes, New York Times LOS ANGELES — First came a competing save-our-schools ballot initiative, backed by a wealthy lawyer who proved more persistent than Gov. Jerry Brown had hoped. Then came a summer of minor financial embarrassments that handed Brown’s opponents a narrative to use against him. Now comes a nagging question: Against […]
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Four El Dorado County sheriff’ vehicles were spray painted with graffiti while parked at the South Lake Tahoe substation Tuesday night. “Some of the moniker names appear to be gang related. We assume it’s local kids,” Lt. Pete Van Arnum told Lake Tahoe News. Although this occurred on Sept. 11 – a day most Americans […]
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By Padmananda Rama, NPR If you grew up in a bilingual Hispanic household, listening to the Democratic and Republican conventions may have sounded a lot like home. It’s no coincidence that both parties highlighted politicians like Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro. Rubio, whose parents are from Cuba, introduced Mitt Romney […]
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By Kathryn Reed While the goals are the same – to restore the river channel to what it was before man first messed with it, improve habitat and enhance the entire ecosystem – the approach the U.S. Forest Service is taking on two projects in the Lake Tahoe Basin is drastically different. Cold Creek runs […]
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