By Kevin Yamamura, Sacramento Bee Facing a dismal budget crisis last year, California relied on a federal lifeline of stimulus dollars. The cash infusion staved off the bleakest of cuts to Medi-Cal patients, welfare recipients and students. But that money is beginning to run dry, leaving California grappling with whether to replace it by raising […]
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By Kathryn Reed A plan for the long stalled convention center in South Lake Tahoe could be unveiled in August. Owens Financial, the largest creditor involved in the bankruptcy, has taken the lead role in trying to come up with a resolution that everyone can live with. Several meetings have been conducted involving the various […]
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The California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Lahontan Region has scheduled a public hearing as part of the process for considering amendments to incorporate the Lake Tahoe TMDL into the Water Quality Control Plan for the Lahontan Region. This action is being proposed to meet the requirements of federal Clean Water Act section 303(d). The […]
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By Kathryn Reed A distinct hum is usually associated with motor boating. Not anymore. Two boats cruising Fallen Leaf Lake are electric, creating a new boating experience for the user and others on or near the water. Self-described marina boy Joe Zanetell turns on the engine. Nothing seems to happen. No sound emerges from the […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE — A group of non-smoking gamblers plans to spend two more days protesting in front of the Stateline casinos in an attempt to bring awareness that people would like go inside if it weren’t so smoky. “Eighty percent of the people don’t smoke and they are shutting those people out,” Janet […]
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Terri Marceron, superintendent of the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit, has signed off on the Angora Fire Restoration Project. The project area encompasses the boundary of the 3,100-acrea burn area. Copies of the decision and maps of the project area are available at the Forest Service office at 35 College Drive, South Lake Tahoe. “This […]
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An Arizona man wanted on 12 counts of fraud and forgery was arrested in South Lake Tahoe on July 14. El Dorado County sheriff’s detectives tracked down John William Rodriguez at a house on Eloise Avenue. He was booked at the South Lake Tahoe jail for a local misdemeanor warrant as well as a no […]
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The National Weather Service in Reno has issued a flash flood watch for the greater Lake Tahoe area from 1pm today through the evening. The warning includes portions of East Central California and Western Nevada, including Reno, Carson City and the Minden areas, and Mineral and southern Lyon counties. Abundant moisture and strong instability over […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe, Truckee and Mammoth no longer have to worry about coming up with additional money to pay for snow removal. Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday signed AB2704 – a bill introduced by Assemblyman Ted Gaines, R-Roseville, to protect snow removal funding for these jurisdictions. Millions of dollars in the gas […]
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By Kathryn Reed Unleashed dogs in the Upper Truckee Marsh are wreaking so much havoc on wildlife habitat that the California Tahoe Conservancy has decided that beginning in 2011 dogs will be banned from this swath of public land in South Lake Tahoe. “The purpose is to preserve habitat value,” Ray Lacey, CTC deputy director, […]
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