By Deborah Circelli, News Journal DAYTONA BEACH — A former local investigator for the state Department of Children & Families who was a key witness in an ongoing serial-murder case has died. Cheryl Rose, 52, was found dead in her home in Ocala on Tuesday, according to the Marion County Sheriff’s Office. She had several […]
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By Jeff Delong, Reno Gazette-Journal Bear season is approaching its peak, and Washoe County will let another summer pass without a law controlling management of the trash responsible for worsening human-bear conflicts. While a showcase ordinance does control how people handle their garbage at Lake Tahoe’s Incline Village — nothing is on the books for […]
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El Dorado County Vector Control will begin its adulticiding control program for mosquitoes next week. This program involves fogging selected areas around South Lake Tahoe and the West Shore to reduce populations of adult mosquitoes. These areas will be fogged early in the morning or in the evenings when wind conditions are at an optimum. […]
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By Jeff Delong, Reno Gazette-Journal It started with paw prints that didn’t match a guilty party. It was back in 1998 when a trapper hired by the California Department of Fish and Game shot and killed a mother bear and her cub after a bear tore through a cellar door on Lake Tahoe’s west shore […]
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The South Lake Tahoe Police Department will be conducting a DUI/driver’s License checkpoint on July 12 from 8pm to 1:30am along Lake Tahoe Boulevard and Pioneer Trail. The department is continuing its efforts at lowering the number of people killed and injured in alcohol involved crashes locally and through the county’s Avoid DUI Task Force […]
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By Austin Fay STATELINE — Every tax paying homeowner in the Lake Tahoe Basin was sent a postcard notifying him or her of Friday’s fire symposium. From the approximately 40,000 postcards that were sent, about 10 homeowners showed up at Harveys. The symposium of fire chiefs, decision-makers, land managers, and homeowners was part of the […]
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By Susanne Rust, California Watch Dirty air may not just affect your lungs. It could affect your tap, too. Scientists at the Desert Research Institute, a division of the Nevada System of Higher Education, say polluted air can cut a storm’s snowfall in half. Randy Borys, co-author of the study and director of the institute’s […]
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By Kathryn Reed Douglas County School District trustees at their Tuesday meeting are expected to hire a principal for Whittell High School. Crespin Esquivel, an assistant principal at Hug High in Reno, has been chosen for the job. He has had that position since 2005. All of Esquivel’s experience is in Washoe County, either as […]
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By Jeff Delong, Reno Gazette-Journal People and bears have grown a little too close for comfort in the Reno-Tahoe area, a situation increasingly dangerous for both. Behavior and physical characteristics of bears living near urban areas are altered. They’re bigger — sometimes much bigger. Many skip winter naps. They reproduce early and often. They die […]
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By Kathryn Reed “We have filed a letter that reserves the right to file suit.” That is Dennis Cocking, spokesman for South Tahoe Public Utility District, talking about his agency’s actions regarding South Lake Tahoe’s latest redevelopment area. Neither the utility district nor El Dorado County is happy with the city’s decision to create a […]
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