Caltrans today announced that construction has resumed on a $16 million environmental improvement project on Highway 89 between Highway 50 and the Alpine/El Dorado county line. This final phase of the Luther Pass project will widen shoulders, rehabilitate and reconstruct drainage facilities. This will allow roadway run-off to be directed to treatment collection facilities rather […]
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By Martha Bellisle, Reno Gazette-Journal As lawyers prepare for Thursday’s sentencing of Phillip and Nancy Garrido in the kidnapping of Jaycee Lee Dugard, questions remain concerning his parole supervision during the time that she was abducted, raped and gave birth to two daughters fathered by her captor. Documents acquired exclusively by the Reno Gazette-Journal through […]
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Public school systems spent an average of $10,499 per pupil in fiscal year 2009, a 2.3 percent increase over 2008, according to data released by the U.S. Census Bureau. Public schools in New York spent more than any other state or state equivalent, with $18,126 per pupil in 2009. The District of Columbia ($16,408), New […]
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Docks are in and the store is about to open at Fallen Leaf Lake. At the meeting this weekend for the community services district, the board unanimously approved the five-year concessionaire contract with Tahoe Recreation, a division of California Land Management. “We devoutly wish for some continuity here,” board President Tom Bacchetti told Lake Tahoe […]
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The California Highway Patrol and the South Lake Tahoe Police Department worked together to put two suspected armed robbers behind bars late Monday evening. At about 10:30pm May 30, an 18-year-old South Lake Tahoe resident was walking alone in a residential neighborhood to visit a friend. A vehicle pulled up beside her. As it did, […]
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By Kathryn Reed Susie Rizk Laney was nearly shredded to death at the hands of a former boyfriend. Looking at her and listening to her it would be hard to know the hell she has been through. That is, until she rolls up her sleeves, lifts her shirt above her waist and pushes aside her […]
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By Bettina Boxall, Los Angeles Times A Gulfstream turboprop sits on the McClellan Airport runway under gray, gloomy skies. Kim Prather has waited two weeks for this day. “I can’t believe there are finally clouds,” she says gratefully as she and her research team check and calibrate several million dollars’ worth of equipment stacked in […]
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By Kathryn Reed While South Lake Tahoe officials are cracking down on vehicles driving around with signs in the back of pickups advertising charity events and churches that use sandwich boards, Placer County is relaxing its sign ordinance. Bob Albertazzi, community police officer for South Tahoe, said because the sandwich board sign was not secure […]
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As expected, the Nevada bill that would drastically alter the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency structure has moved from the Senate to the Assembly. SB271 would allow Nevada to back out of the bi-state Compact. However, California and Congress would have some say in how things go forward. “We are appalled by today’s action by the […]
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By Kathryn Reed Gareth Harris has been selected at the next fire chief of Lake Valley Fire Protection District. He takes the helm from Jeff Michael who will retire June 24. When Harris was hired in 2005 from the Half Moon Bay Fire District as battalion chief and fire marshal for Lake Valley he was […]
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