By Leona Allen Personnel from the Lake Valley Fire Protection District are participating in rope rescue training this month in conjunction with El Dorado County Search and Rescue, South Lake Tahoe Fire Department, Meeks Bay Fire Protection District, U.S. Forest Service, and CalFire. Due to the recreational atmosphere within the jurisdiction of these agencies, it […]
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Divers out for a fun day under Lake Tahoe found a body that is believed to have been there since the late 1990s. The divers discovered the corpse last weekend, with sheriff’s deputies able to recover it Wednesday. It was along a rock wall about 265 feet down near Rubicon. “Previous attempts to locate the […]
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By Kathryn Reed It will take years for Eneliko “Sean” Smith to pay back the hundreds of thousands of dollars he owes South Lake Tahoe in back hotel taxes, but the payment plan has been increased. The issue is whether he’s learned his lesson that he actually has to pay the money. This month is […]
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By Jesse B. Gill, San Bernardino Sun Sheriff’s deputies have arrested a 51-year-old man in Douglas County they suspect killed a 62-year-old Yucaipa man in 1982. On Oct. 2 that year, deputies arrived at an apartment complex in the 31400 block of Yucaipa Boulevard after a neighbor saw blood on the sidewalk and heard moaning […]
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Steve Wasserman, the South Lake Tahoe man in prison for nearly slashing his ex-girlfriend to death, will spend at least another seven years in prison. He was up for parole this week, but was denied. The parole board said he could try again in seven years. The victim, Susie Rizk Laney, had hoped the next […]
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The North Lake Tahoe Fire Protection District responded to a brush fire on the corner of Alder Avenue and Northwood Boulevard in Incline Village on the afternoon of July 27. The cause of the 15 foot by 30 foot blaze is under investigation.
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By Ed Fletcher, Sacramento Bee Eastern Placer County may see its political influence diminish as the county adjusts political boundaries to accommodate the Lake Tahoe area’s shrinking full-time population. Under tentative redistricting maps, the supervisorial district that includes the north shore of Lake Tahoe will grow to include Auburn. “It’s pretty much a foregone conclusion […]
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By Juan Lopez, Reno Gazette-Journal A more than 16,000-acre fire in Tulare County, Calif., an area about 300 miles south of Reno, is sending up clouds of hazy smoke into the Truckee Meadows area. Scott McGuire, a National Weather Service meteorologist, said the Lion Fire’s smoke is reaching “along the entire spine of the Sierra […]
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Contractors for Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board expect this to be a record summer for treatment of acid mine drainage at the Leviathan Mine superfund site in Alpine County. Treatment prevents toxic discharges from the mine to Leviathan Creek, Bryant Creek, and the East Fork Carson River. As a result of the highest amount […]
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Avalon Lodge in South Lake Tahoe has partnered with Clean the World Foundation to recycle amenities to be redistributed to impoverished and disaster stricken areas in need. This is just one of the ways it is promoting sustainability. Hotel amenities will be collected, recycled, sanitized, and distributed worldwide to reduce the risk of pneumonia, diarrhea, […]
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