Lake Valley Fire Protection District’s Angora Peak Crew is in Arizona on the Wallow Fire. The crew was deployed June 5 and is expected to return this week. The crew provides fuel reduction services for properties in Lake Valley’s jurisdiction when they are not on fires. Their funding comes from grant sources, which will run […]
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Law enforcement is looking for an Incline Village woman who has been missing since Saturday. Kelly McGinnis, 43, was last seen leaving her home in the 900 block of Galaxy Way on June 18, Washoe County sheriff’s spokesman Armando Avina said in a press release. Her vehicle has was found in a parking lot west […]
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By Kathryn Reed It was a matter of when, not if the League to Save Lake Tahoe would sue South Lake Tahoe over its recently adopted General Plan. On Friday the League filed a complaint challenging the city’s General Plan that was approved in May. At that meeting the League’s attorney threatened to sue if […]
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By Rob Sabo, Northern Nevada Business Weekly Engineering and construction firms are scrambling to repair the damage to buildings caused by massive accumulation of snow in the Lake Tahoe Basin last winter. Jared Krupa, principal engineer for K2 Engineering and Structural Design of Reno, has taken on repair work for a half-dozen structures in and […]
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Reno Gazette-Journal Responding for the first time to a lawsuit by conservationists, the U.S. Forest Service says the threat of another major wildfire like the one that destroyed about 250 homes at Lake Tahoe four years ago outweighs any concerns that its plans to log much of what’s left of the burned forest would harm […]
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After several delays due to inclement weather, there will be a temporary closure of the River Access Road in Tahoe City as part of construction of the Tahoe City Transit Center. The closure will be on June 22 from 7am-6pm. The closure will affect access to the adjacent Tahoe City Public Utility District parking lot, […]
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South Lake Tahoe police officers will deploy officers into the Bijou neighborhood June 23 and June 25 as part of the Residential Neighborhood Traffic Enforcement Program. The areas of enforcement will be Glenwood Way, Herbert Avenue and Heather Lake Road. “We have had a strong response from our community in the form of phone calls […]
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By Carlos Alcalá, Sacramento Bee The El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office needs to fix its treatment of women in the department and prevent deputies from using phony educational degrees to gain pay increases, according to the El Dorado County grand jury’s report released Friday. The grand jury’s 2010-11 report focused three of its 12 sections […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe City Attorney Patrick Enright is scheduled to get a raise Tuesday before the council even evaluates him. The 5 percent raise, which brings his salary from $146,740 a year to $154,077, is on the consent agenda. It’s not until after the regular meeting that in closed session the council […]
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Updated June 18, 2011, 9:05am: Gov. Brian Sandoval signed SB271 and vetoed AB578 on June 17. By Anne Knowles CARSON CITY – It took until the final, frenetic minutes of the 2011 Nevada legislative session for lawmakers to pass the controversial bill threatening to pull out of the Tahoe Regional Planning Compact, but it may […]
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