By Michael Doyle, McClatchy News Service WASHINGTON – Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Elk Grove, could start making waves in California water. As new chairman of the House water and power subcommittee, McClintock can promote his pet projects while he squeezes environmentalists. Politically, this means renewed talk of an Auburn dam, stricter scrutiny of San Joaquin River […]
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Publisher’s note: This is the second of four days of stories about issues pertaining to Vail. By Susan Wood VAIL – Things are looking up for businesses from markets and restaurants to ski resorts and sporting goods shops in this snowsports tourism area, following a rough recession-based year for the United States. Overall, November sales […]
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By Steve Timko and Jaclyn O’Malley, Reno Gazette-Journal Relatives of a 15-year-old snowboarder — who died Wednesday after crashing into a tree while walking down a slick ski resort mountainside — remembered him Thursday as an amazing and sweet boy. Galena High student Maison T. Ortiz had been snowboarding with a friend at Mount Rose […]
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By Kristin Hanes, Fox 40 VACAVILLE — A spattering of cell phone calls are all family members and police have to go on as they try to find Jose Ruben Valdez. Valdez, 57, was supposed to have arrived in South Lake Tahoe on Wednesday when he left his Anaheim home. But, he never arrived. Since […]
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By Jennifer Medina and Marc Lacey, New York Times TUCSON — Representative Gabrielle Giffords, who survived a gunshot through her head on Jan. 8, is likely to leave a hospital here on Friday and move to the TIRR Memorial Hermann rehabilitation hospital in Houston to continue her recovery, a spokesman for Ms. Giffords said Wednesday. […]
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Publisher’s note: This is the first of four days of stories about issues pertaining to Vail. Lake Tahoe News reporters spent the first week of January in Vail – skiing, eating, walking, talking, and observing. Today through Jan. 23 we share some of those experiences and insights with readers of Lake Tahoe News. The point […]
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Updated Jan. 19 4:55pm: Randy Kelly with Liberty Energy and a longtime NV Energy employee in South Lake Tahoe said a tree went across a power line, knocking out power for a few hours Tuesday night in the Tahoe Island area. The company has no plans at this time to inspect trees/limbs that may be […]
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By Brad Branan, Sacramento Bee Gov. Jerry Brown’s plan to transfer state inmates to county jails faces a simple obstacle: Many jails don’t have the space to hold them. Just as the state has struggled with prison overcrowding, some counties have had their own problems keeping inmates locked up. Statewide, tens of thousands of inmates […]
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By Reno Gazette-Journal One person is hospitalized with substantial injuries after an accident on Kingsbury Grade this morning. At 8:49am, Nevada Highway Patrol was dispatched to an injury crash near Juniper Lane approximately three-quarters of a mile east of Highway 50 on Highway 207. The crash investigation indicates that a black Jeep Cherokee was traveling […]
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By Jeff Delong, Reno Gazette-Journal Nearly a week of unseasonably warm weather took its toll on a still-bountiful Sierra snowpack, with no new storms expected anytime soon. Temperatures across the Reno-Tahoe area are expected to drop about 20 degrees today, slowing the snowpack meltdown. Experts now are looking to February to bring back storms needed […]
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