People entering the old Meyers Landfill site are being cited. The fine is $175. This area off Pioneer Trail in El Dorado County was closed to the public earlier this summer so a cap could be put on the toxic site. “We issued a citation on July 26 at noon to a nearby resident [Hekpa […]
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By Reno Gazette-Journal The 1,369-acre Constantia Complex of fires is 100 percent contained, authorities said this morning. The fire northwest of Reno and about 5 miles south of Doyle, Calif., started Saturday night, now has a line all the way around it with vegetation removed to prevent its spread. Even though the fire is not […]
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By JJ Hensley, Arizona Republic Sgt. John Rodriguez cut an imposing figure when he was introduced at the Republican committee meeting in the winter of 2008. The decorated Marine and aspiring precinct committeeman came to the event in his green service uniform with some of the military branch’s highest honors clearly visible, including the Navy […]
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By Mark Harden, Denver Business Journal Vail Resorts Inc. said Thursday it is shuffling its mountain-resort leadership. The moves are part of a reorganization of the management of Vail Resorts’ Mountain Division, which oversees Colorado ski areas Breckenridge, Vail, Beaver Creek and Keystone as well as Heavenly Mountain at Lake Tahoe on the California-Nevada line. […]
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By Mark Grossi, McClatchy Newspapers FRESNO — Don’t let the running rivers and rising reservoirs fool you. The break in California’s three-year drought might not last. The global weather phenomenon La Nina has begun cooling down the Pacific Ocean, which means drier times may be ahead for major parts of California. The effects of La […]
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By Jeff Delong, Reno Gazette-Journal Pilot error likely was responsible for the fatal crash of a single-engine air tanker that smashed into rugged terrain while battling a Northern Nevada wildfire last summer, federal investigators said. Pilot Dave Jamsa’s “failure to maintain a stabilized approach prior to the retardant drop and his subsequent failure to release […]
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By Cynthia Hubert, Sacramento Bee The El Dorado County District Attorney has found that a Placerville police officer was justified in shooting and killing a mentally ill woman who fled a local hospital in a stolen ambulance in late March. Linda Carol Clark, 39, of Folsom, died in the driveway of a Placerville home after […]
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By John Ellis, McClatchy Newspapers FRESNO — Local law enforcement officials joined their federal counterparts Wednesday to deliver a unified message: marijuana farming operations in the foothills and mountains of the Sierra Nevada are dangerous to citizens and the environment. Gil Kerlikowske, director of the White House’s Office of National Drug Control Policy, and Benjamin […]
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By Kathryn Reed Lake Tahoe Community College is hoping one of the handful of people expected to be interviewed Aug. 11 for the job of interim president will be able to start by Sept. 1. Susan Middleton, vice president of Academic Affairs and Student Services, has been the acting president since Paul Killpatrick left earlier […]
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By Kathryn Reed El Dorado County pulled its two buses out of the BlueGo fleet Wednesday, creating an unstable situation for on-call riders of the public transit system. “Because everything happened late (Tuesday) I’m not sure about the on-call services or what is being offered to those folks,” county Supervisor Norma Santiago told Lake Tahoe […]
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