By Central Valley Business Times A 45-mile long tunnel that would drain fresh water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta — so wide in diameter that small planes could fly through it — is being talked about in secret meetings in Sacramento. Broad plans for the tunnel have been worked out, although the planning document prepared […]
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By Kathryn Reed On the same day the South Lake Tahoe City Council is expected to vote on a medical marijuana cultivation ordinance, residents will elect three new council members and all of California will decide if pot should be legalized via Proposition 19. Before Nov. 2, the City Council will have a public hearing […]
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Two minor fires in South Lake Tahoe on Wednesday afternoon are believed to have been started by children. Both were behind Heavenly Valley Estates and were close to each other. At the scene fire officials found a lighter that was presumably used to light the pine needles. A Jeffery pine was torched, which sent smoke […]
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By Carlos Alcalá, Sacramento Bee Why, in a tea party era, is there no organized fight against Placerville’s Measure H, a proposed quarter-percent hike in the sales tax? No one even offered a ballot argument against it. “It’s kind of eerie,” admitted City Manager John Driscoll. Read the whole story
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By Kathryn Reed In two days, a new fiscal year begins in South Lake Tahoe. The multi-million dollar budget approved in August on the eve of then-City Manager Dave Jinkens’ departure is rife with questions. Lake Tahoe News has been trying to put the pieces together, but the city has been hampering those efforts. The […]
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Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger today awarded the Public Safety Officer Medal of Valor, California’s highest public safety award, to 10 law enforcement officers for their outstanding commitment to the people of California. Placer County Deputy Ken Skogen was one of those recipients. On Aug. 30, 2009, Placer County deputies responded to the area of Rock Creek […]
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A two-story house in South Lake Tahoe suffered $20,000 in damage from a Monday afternoon fire. Occupants of the house at 1331 Wildwood Ave. used a garden hose to extinguish most of the front exterior before firefighters arrived at 3:46pm. “Firefighters quickly discovered the fire in the attic and extinguished it, preventing further extension,” South […]
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By Rick Daysog, Sacramento Bee Valero Energy Corp. CEO Bill Klesse once jokingly suggested oil industry executives should fight global warming by holding their breath. Now, his company has emerged as a major force behind the November ballot measure to suspend California’s climate change law. Since its start as a small Texas gasoline maker more […]
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By Stephen M. Silverman, People Jaycee Dugard’s incredible story of survival during 18 years of captivity until her 2009 rescue, will be published next year. And the author: Dugard herself. Publisher Simon & Schuster said in a release that Dugard, now 30, will tell of her life from the time of her 1991 abduction to […]
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By Kathryn Reed Foreclosure. It is the word circulating around the bankrupt convention center project in South Lake Tahoe. Randy Lane, principal with Lake Tahoe Development Community, wants the creditors to hold off a few more years. “We are just asking for more time to figure things out and sell the property, which has not […]
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