Every metro area in Northern California, including South Lake Tahoe, saw a double-digit drop in the average price of gas over the past month, according to the latest report from AAA Northern California, Nevada and Utah Insurance Exchange. The average price in South Lake Tahoe dropped to $3.85 from $4.20 when the survey was done […]
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The California Community Colleges Board of Governors this week took the first step toward establishing system-wide enrollment priorities and gave final approval to regulations that prevent students from repeating courses that they have already successfully completed. The enrollment priority regulations, which are scheduled for final adoption in September and implementation in the fall of 2014, would reward students who […]
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The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency announced Tim Carlson has joined the the TRPA’s 15-member Governing Board as the new presidential appointee. Carlson, a Nevada resident, has more than 40 years of government and business development experience in commercialization and technology transfer. “The President has appointed someone with the background and experience needed to help TRPA and […]
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By KCRA-TV At least 100 people were evacuated from their homes in a rural area outside of Foresthill as a fire burns in Placer County. A fire that started Wednesday near Colfax continues burning Thursday. Firefighters are working to prevent the blaze from jumping a river. Evacuations are in place near Foresthill because of a […]
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The gaming win at Stateline casinos fell almost 27 percent in May, to $13.3 million from $18.3 million in the same month a year earlier, according to the Nevada Gaming Control Board. The state’s gaming win was $885 million in May, down 10 percent from $984 million in May, 2011. Tax collections in June, based […]
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The Douglas County School District Board of Trustees paved the way for changes to several policies, approved a vendor for a repaving project at schools and agreed to keep the former Kingsbury Middle School on the market after not receiving any bids for the Zephyr Cove property. The school board also received an update from […]
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The Sierra Rose luxury yacht remains submerged in water at its dock in the Tahoe Keys Marina a couple days after it first sank. Local officials who are monitoring the incident said owner Mike Stewart is working with a crane operator to raise the boat out the water within the next few days. “We were […]
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Two motherless bear cubs captured in Nevada City last week are now at the Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care. The California Department of Fish and Game delivered them to LTWC after the agency received a call and found the mother dead from an unknown cause and then trapped the cubs. “I didn’t notice any trauma or […]
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The Placer County Sheriff’s Office has started to phase in a new vehicle, the Chevy Tahoe two-wheel drive SUV. Sheriff’s officials selected the Tahoe when Ford announced it would no longer manufacture the department’s current patrol car, the Crown Victoria. The sheriff’s office evaluated the Chevy Tahoe, as well as available Ford and Chrysler products, and chose the […]
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Placer County is seeking information about a robbery that took place early July 10 at a construction site in the 1400 block of River Road in Tahoe City. The police said unknown suspects broke into a shared construction yard at the location and stole gas lawn mowers, gas-powered earth compactors, power hand tools, a chop saw, […]
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