By Cathy Locke, Sacramento Bee A parachutist who took a moonlight leap off the Foresthill Bridge on Wednesday night landed in jail after a Placer County sheriff’s helicopter crew had to pluck him from a pine tree. Scott Liske, supervising ranger for the Auburn State Recreation Area, said Nicholas Frey, 34, of Olympic Valley jumped […]
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ZEPHYR COVE — Enrollment has done something at Douglas County School District’s lake schools that it hasn’t done in years – it’s gone up. The increase from last year is 1.9 percent – which is eight students – but it is a sign things may be starting to level off. Enrollment was on such a […]
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By Kathryn Reed A river runs through it – and that’s one of the problems as well as one of the things that make this area on the outskirts of South Lake Tahoe so beautiful. Washoe Meadows State Park and Lake Valley Recreation Area are places even residents of the South Shore can’t locate on […]
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Caltrans this weekend expects to wrap up year one of its three-year Highway 50 project in South Lake Tahoe. Crews will be paving conforms – or entries to the side streets – on Friday and Saturday. The support work for the operation is part of the stormwater and water quality improvement project. Motorists can expect […]
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By CBS-13 WEST SACRAMENTO — Vodka-soaked gummy bears. That’s the newest way teenagers are getting drunk, and police warn it’s nearly undetectable. It’s dangerous because the booze-soaked candy is pretty much odorless and the person eating them has no idea how much alcohol they’re putting into their system. In less than a month, a “how-to” […]
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By Torey Van Oot, Sacramento Bee The state political watchdog agency is set to consider next month adopting substantial changes to rules governing gifts to public officials and staff, including exemptions from disclosure for presents received from former spouses, dating partners and longtime friends. The proposed regulations drafted by Fair Political Practices Commission staffers affect […]
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By Kathryn Reed Not much separated the six South Tahoe Public Utility District board candidates in terms of their responses to questions posed to them Wednesday night. They politely sparred for 2½ hours before more than 40 people – mostly employees. All will hire qualified disabled employees, all would prefer local contractors be hired if […]
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By Teri Mizuhara Carbon Monoxide, aka CO, is widely known as the “silent killer” because you can not see it, taste it, or smell it. Annually, more than 400 people die and another 20,000 are hospitalized due to CO poisoning. So what exactly is carbon monoxide? CO is the result of combustion (burning) of a […]
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By Anne Knowles Installation of a stormwater treatment system at the Sierra Colina Village development site this week marks the completion of the first private-public partnership project many say is the kind of work that is key to Lake Tahoe’s future. The system will filter, treat and store runoff from the development and from Echo […]
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By Jeff Delong, Reno Gazette-Journal Ten bears have been killed in Nevada’s first black bear hunt, bringing the number of animals than can be taken to the halfway point. A female bear was killed Sunday and a male bear on Monday, the first since Sept. 18. The other seven bears were all killed during the […]
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