By Carlos Alcalá, Sacramento Bee An El Dorado County jury on Thursday found embattled restaurateur Kevin Cairns not guilty of any of the three felonies with which he had been charged, but did convict him on five misdemeanor counts, The mixed verdict was the conclusion of a weeklong trial in which Cairns, who ran a […]
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By Alex Tavlian, Fresno Bee A 30-year-old man died at China Peak Ski Resort after falling head-first into deep snow on the slopes, resort officials said Sunday. The man was snowboarding alone on one of the slopes when he fell head-first into deep snow and suffocated, China Peak owner and general manager Tim Cohee said. […]
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By CBS13 CBS13 has learned that Garden Valley Fire Chief Bill Dekker is under investigation by the El Dorado County District Attorney’s Office. In an interview with CBS13, District Attorney Vern Pierson told On The Money he has opened a criminal investigation focusing on the fire chief’s purchases on the fire department’s credit card. CBS13 […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe residents may no longer have a fire department to call their own. That is because talks are under way for the city department to be run by Lake Valley Fire Protection District. Lake Valley, which is overseen by a five-member board, voted this month to proceed with a consolidation […]
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By Jean Merl, Los Angeles Times Filing has closed, the candidate lists are final and the curtain has risen on California’s reconstructed political stage, where the contests for 153 congressional and legislative seats will play out for the first time under new rules and in altered districts. Look for intraparty fights that will last into […]
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Updated: 9:45pm March 18, 2012 By Kathryn Reed One person died and another was seriously injured at two Lake Tahoe area ski resorts March 18. Yiwei Hu, 54, of Gold River died at Sierra-at-Tahoe, according to El Dorado County sheriff’s deputies, after he fell into a deep hole created by an underflow of water in […]
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By Sean Whaley, Nevada News Bureau CARSON CITY – A regulation requiring thousands of home-based businesses to pay a $200 annual fee won approval from a legislative panel. Secretary of State Ross Miller has been trying to get the regulation approved for several months, but has seen the regulation stymied by strong opposition from some […]
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By Denny Walsh, Sacramento Bee Once again, human error has cost Pacific Gas and Electric Co. millions of dollars. It was announced Thursday that the utility giant and two companies working for it paid $29.5 million to the federal government to settle lawsuits over two forest fires in 2004. The old bugaboo of carelessness combined […]
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On a 4-1 vote, the South Tahoe Public Utility District board decided not to release ratepayer information to the Citizens Alliance for Responsible Government. John Runnels, one of the most vocal members of the group, in January first approached the board about wanting addresses for water and sewer customers. The voted was pushed out to […]
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By Anne Knowles The more things change, the more Genoa wants to stay the same. That’s the idea, so to speak, behind Destination Genoa, the project to update Nevada’s first town while maintaining its historic integrity and appeal. The project is a key piece of Douglas County’s economic vitality plan, the county’s nearly 2-year-old, 12-pronged […]
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