Publisher’s note: This is the second of three stories looking at the past, present and future of Lake Tahoe Airport. By Joann Eisenbrandt In the mid-1800s, white trappers and settlers spilled over from the gold mining encampments of the California Mother Lode and changed Lake Tahoe forever. Attempts to designate the lake as a national […]
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By Anne Knowles El Dorado County is considering a cloud-based reverse 911 system to replace its seriously flawed existing system. Brian Uhler, South Lake Tahoe Police-Fire Chief, told the South Lake Tahoe City Council on Tuesday that the new system would be paid for with federal Homeland Security monies and will soon be presented to […]
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Several people were arrested or cited after the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office and the South Lake Tahoe Police Department responded to a crowd control incident on the Stateline Avenue sidewalk between Harrah’s Casino and Embassy Suites Hotel after the Fourth of July fireworks display. DCSO took the original call and said they were assisting a […]
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By Leticia Ordaz, KCRA-TV SACRAMENTO – Effective Sunday, California has more than a dozen new laws, including an anti-bullying law and a new law requiring insurance companies to cover maternity care. Individual health insurance plans are now required to provide coverage to women who are pregnant. Currently, in California more than 200,000 women of child-bearing […]
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Beaches and boats were packed for South Lake Tahoe’s “Lights on the Lake” Fourth of July firework display last evening. Starting just before 10pm, the 24-minute display was set to digitized streamed music by KRLT 93.9 and KOWL1490. The annual fireworks display received a lot of national attention this year, being recommended by several travel […]
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Publisher’s note: This is the first of three stories looking at the past, present and future of Lake Tahoe Airport. By Joann Eisenbrandt South Lake Tahoe wants commercial airline service to return to Lake Tahoe Airport. This isn’t news, but it’s moved to the forefront with the expiration this October of the 1992 Lake Tahoe […]
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By Edward Ortiz, Sacramento Bee It isn’t every day you get to fight the nation’s largest fire and meet the president. That’s what happened to Placerville resident and firefighter Matt McKurtis and other members of the Eldorado National Forest and Lake Tahoe Basin firefighting units of the U.S. Forest Service, who are working the fire […]
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By Anne Knowles If you arrived for the start of the holiday parade at Stateline past 10:15am, you were in for a letdown. South Lake Tahoe’s inaugural Fourth of July parade started on time and ended quickly. The parade began promptly at 10am and the 30 or so participating vehicles traveled a two-mile stretch of […]
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By Nina Chestney, Reuters Rising sea levels cannot be stopped over the next several hundred years, even if deep emissions cuts lower global average temperatures, but they can be slowed down, climate scientists said in a study on Sunday. A lot of climate research shows that rising greenhouse gas emissions are responsible for increasing global […]
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By Edward Ortiz, Sacramento Bee Intense and deeply destructive “super fires,” like Colorado’s current Waldo Canyon fire, which has claimed two lives and burned 350 homes, are almost assured in Northern California’s future, according to a U.S. Forest Service scientist. “Typically we’re seeing an earlier fire season and that fire season is lasting longer,” said […]
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