Updated: May 22, 2012, 3:25pm By Kathryn Reed CAMP RICHARDSON — One skydiver is dead and two others survived their jump near Camp Richardson on Tuesday morning. Robert Ranieri, 29, of South Lake Tahoe was found in 12 to 15 feet of water by El Dorado County sheriff’s divers. Lt. Pete Van Arnum said Ranieri […]
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By Tony Bizjak, Sacramento Bee On a wooded and wildlife-rich stretch of Highway 50 in the foothills, Caltrans is about to launch an unusual road safety experiment – for critters and drivers alike. The agency is building the Sacramento region’s first deer and large-animal road crossing, a $1.6 million tunnel and fence project, in hopes […]
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By David Wharton, Los Angeles Times When the 2012 London Olympics begin less than three months from now, it will mark an anniversary that Americans might not want to celebrate. Ten years have passed since the Games last took place on U.S. soil. And with the bidding process extended years in advance, this country’s next […]
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By Ted Burnham, NPR American homes are filled with unused prescription drugs. Each year we squirrel away 200 million pounds of pharmaceuticals we don’t need anymore, according to some estimates. Left in medicine cabinets, those drugs can end up in the hands of children or others who really shouldn’t be taking them. Proper and timely […]
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By Carol Morello and Ted Mellnik, Washington Post For the first time in U.S. history, most of the nation’s babies are members of minority groups, according to new census figures that signal the dawn of an era in which whites no longer will be in the majority. Population estimates show that 50.4 percent of children […]
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By Kathryn Reed On June 5, the South Lake Tahoe City Council is slated to have a workshop on the capital improvement program, or the infrastructure of the city. At the June 19 meeting, the council is expected to approve the certificate of participation that is basically a $5 million loan. That money is slated […]
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Placer County’s Community Development Resource Agency, Environmental Health Services and Executive Office North Lake Tahoe offices will doing business out of a county-owned office building in Tahoe City starting Monday. They moved this weekend. The new offices are located at 775 N. Lake Blvd., Tahoe City, in the building known as the Customs House. Placer […]
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The man accused in the hit and run DUI accident last summer in the Stateline casino corridor pleaded guilty to one count of reckless driving causing death or substantial bodily harm and one count of vehicular manslaughter. David Stephenson, 36, of Discovery Bay has been sentenced to four years in prison. He would be eligible […]
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By Peter Hecht, Sacramento Bee Medical marijuana advocates Saturday opened a three-day event to rally support to regulate a legal dispensary industry in California, spurred on by videotaped messages from two members of Congress who recently pushed an amendment to deny funds for federal raids on cannabis businesses. About 200 people, including dispensary operators and […]
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El Dorado County has scheduled a series of meetings to collect public comment on the Targeted General Plan Amendment and Zoning Ordinance Update. The purpose of scoping meetings is to request public feedback on the range of environmental issues that should be analyzed in the Environmental Impact Report. The public is invited to attend the […]
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