By Peter Hecht, Sacramento Bee Placerville Mayor David Machado, facing a political scandal and criminal charges over an alleged cover-up of his property dealings, was stripped of his title Tuesday night in a unanimous vote of his City Council colleagues. The embattled Machado was not the Placerville Town Hall as the other four members voted […]
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By Jeff Delong, Reno Gazette-Journal As crews mop up smoldering terrain torched by one of this summer’s largest wildfires, experts are readying efforts to prevent erosion and restore a charred landscape. More than 3,800 acres — roughly six-square miles — were burned by the Ray May Fire in southern Douglas County. It’s a checkerboard of […]
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By Gus Thomson, Auburn Journal State Sen. Ted Gaines is planning to pull up stakes in the wake of a redistricting change that places his Roseville home inside fellow Republican Sen. Doug LaMalfa’s District 4. Gaines said that he’ll have to move at least a quarter mile to remain in District 1 and meet state […]
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By Susanne Rust, California Watch Under pressure from the American Chemistry Council, a lobbying group for the plastics industry, schools officials in California edited a new environmental curriculum to include positive messages about plastic shopping bags, interviews and documents show. The rewritten textbooks and teachers’ guides coincided with a public relations and lobbying effort by […]
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By Michael Doyle, Sacramento Bee WASHINGTON – California and other states seeking to curtail funeral protests are following a politically popular but legally disputable path. Supreme Court, here they come. Last week, California lawmakers joined their counterparts in Arizona, Illinois and other states in passing new restrictions on protests at funerals. In particular, legislators hope […]
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By Matt Kawahara, Sacramento Bee When federal agents finally tracked down William Walter Asher III in Salida last week, the 66-year-old was going by an assumed name, retired after years working for trucking companies, and living with a woman who apparently had no idea he’d been running from the law for 36 years. Asher, who […]
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By Katherine E. Hill TRUCKEE – Truckee-area waterways will implement a regional mandatory boat inspection program in summer 2012, with public meetings being conducted to gather input before the program is crafted by the Tahoe Resource Conservation District. The next meeting will be Aug. 25 at the Truckee Donner Public Utility District office at 5:30pm. […]
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By Reno Gazette-Journal Two female bears have been harvested on the opening weekend of Nevada’s first-ever bear hunts, according to the Nevada Department of Wildlife. NDOW spokesman Chris Healy said one bear was taken on Saturday in the foothills above Verdi. A second bear was taken Sunday in the Pine Nut Mountains southeast of Gardnerville. […]
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By Carlos Alcalá, Sacramento Bee Officials are vowing to execute plans to replace racist gravestones at the Mormon Island Relocation Cemetery, even though the activist who pushed hardest for their replacement now appears to want to stall it. “I don’t want to wait any longer,” El Dorado County Supervisor John Knight said Friday. His district […]
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By Geralda Miller, Reno Gazette-Journal Several hours after the sunrise start of Nevada’s first black bear hunt, a small group gathered near Tahoe Meadows to pray for the hunter and the hunted. The Blessing of the Bears began with organizer Kat Simmons beating a drum 41 times with a prayer for the 41 hunters that […]
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