By Susan Wood Based on semi-official results reported by El Dorado County Elections Department officials Tuesday night, Fallen Leaf Lake residents will get mostly a new board in the coming months. More than two-thirds (321) of the 461 registered voters cast ballots for Thomas Barber to replace former board member Dana Clark, Wanda Kownacki taking […]
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UC Davis researchers noted several bright spots in their annual Lake Tahoe health report issued today: The 2007 Angora Fire had no significant impact on lake clarity; a small test of a method to kill invasive clams worked; the pollutant phosphorus was at its lowest level in 29 years; and free-floating algae in the lake […]
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By Kathryn Reed Much of today’s special South Lake Tahoe City Council meeting will be behind closed doors. Litigation matters are the topic of the day. The cases before the council are former transit operator John Andoh. A second civil rights case also involves the city and police officers filed by Daniel Thomas Harvey. The […]
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By Kathryn Reed Work wrapped up Monday on a two-week tree-thinning project in the Upper Truckee Marsh that involved clearing about 12,000 board feet (52 trees) and 50 tons of wood chips being hauled out. A semi-truck early on the afternoon of Aug. 30 was full of chips being taken to the cogeneration plant in […]
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By Kathryn Reed Furnaces were churning and woodstoves smoking as the highs in the region over the weekend set records for how cold it was. On Sunday in South Lake Tahoe the high was 57 degrees. This broke the record set in 1979 at 62 degrees. Normal is 77 degrees. It was the fifth coolest […]
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By Peter Hecht, Sacramento Bee The Canna Care medical marijuana dispensary has a truck driving around Sacramento with a sign telling people to vote “no” on the state ballot initiative that would legalize pot for recreational use. George Mull, a lawyer for several Northern California pot shops, is fighting Proposition 19 on claims it threatens […]
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By Jim Sanders, Sacramento Bee California legislators collected tens of thousands of dollars in taxpayer-funded per diem payments for floor sessions they did not attend this year, records show. Failing to show up for work typically did not hurt lawmakers’ pocketbooks: Only about one of every four absences included the loss of the tax-free $142 […]
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By Ashlea Ebeling, Forbes Forget about hiding money offshore from the Internal Revenue Service–unless you want to risk the penalties, back tax bills and threat of prosecution that thousands of American clients of ubs now face. But what about protecting your cash from vexatious litigants, a grasping ex-spouse or pesky creditors? Then offshore trusts are […]
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By Matt Kawahara, Sacramento Bee The Placer County Sheriff’s Department has found a gold miner reported missing since Sunday in the Sailor Flat area of Tahoe National Forest. Gary Davis, 65, of Sacramento entered the mountainous region at the north fork of the American River on Aug. 20, looking for gold, said Sgt. Troy Minton-Sander, […]
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By Victor Calderon, Reno Gazette-Journal Reno might be known for hot August nights, but the month will end on a cold note this weekend, with showers and thunderstorms possible and even an inch or two of snow in the upper elevations of the Sierra, weather forecasters said. After high temperatures in the upper 90s in […]
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