By Anne Knowles Cynthea Preston, long-time Lake Tahoe Community College faculty member and administrator, is retiring. Preston, who has been with LTCC for 20 years, first as a professor of English then as dean of instruction for the last dozen years, is taking an early retirement package offered by the school and leaving LTCC Sept. […]
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By Karoun Demirijan, Las Vegas Sun Nevada Rep. Shelley Berkley was always going to have to face some tough music on the Senate campaign trail over allegations she used her seat in Congress to push for policies and programs that benefited her family’s bottom line. But the inquiry that stood at least a chance of […]
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The Grace Foundation, an El Dorado Hills animal rescue organization, said it has filed a lawsuit against Wells Fargo Bank and Bank of America for $20 million over the group’s foreclosure. The group says it is near bankruptcy as the costs of caring for 48 abused horses it received has reached $800,000 and continues to […]
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By Sean Whaley, Nevada News Bureau CARSON CITY – The deadline for a free, federal independent foreclosure review for Nevadans whose homes were in foreclosure in 2009 or 2010 has been extended to Sept. 30, 2012, Attorney General Catherine Cortez Masto said today. The previous deadline was July 31. Ordered by the Office of the […]
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By Susan Wood GLENBROOK – When a suspicious package turns up, the Tahoe Douglas fire agency brings out the big guns in its arsenal of tools. In the Glenbrook station stands a robot weighing 500 pounds, spanning 3 feet, standing 4-feet-high, with a reach twice that length and gun barrels pointed – ready for action. […]
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The multi-million dollar yacht known as Sierra Rose is two-thirds submerged in water at its dock in Tahoe Keys Marina. The South Lake Tahoe Police Department received a call at 4:01am Monday that the 85-foot luxury boat was sinking, according to an officer with the SLTPD’s two-person unit marine unit who was at the marina […]
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A “Do Not Drink” order remains in effect in the Topaz Ranch Estates General Improvement District after a water line break and a well pump failure on July 8. Currently the TRE GID is making repairs to one well and discontinued use of another well, which may have been a possible contamination source into the […]
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Six citations were issued for workers’ comp violations against firms doing construction in South Lake Tahoe as part of a statewide sweep of illegal construction sites in June. The California Contractors State License Board, which conducted the operation in conjunction with the state Department of Insurance, Employment Development Department and county district attorneys’ offices, is […]
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By Michelle Ponto, News 10 A Shingle Springs man is found alive after being missing for more than 24 hours near Wrights Lake. El Dorado County Search and Rescue teams searched for 65-year old Chris Chaloupka, the missing U.S. Forest Service volunteer Saturday and Sunday before locating him shortly before 9pm Sunday. El Dorado County […]
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By Kathryn Reed North Tahoe Public Utility District may have to pay a penalty in excess of $200,000 for allowing approximately 129,500 gallons of raw sewage to reach Lake Tahoe. The sewage spill occurred Dec. 19, 2010, during a heavy snowstorm. The power went out on the main line and then the generator ran out […]
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