A vacation rental partially went up in flames Saturday night in South Lake Tahoe. The kitchen and living room of the two-story house at 1361 June Way was engulfed in flames and smoke when firefighters arrived. “An aggressive interior attack limited the damage to heavy fire damage to the kitchen and living room, with moderate […]
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By Kathryn Reed The $6 million question is: When will the state have that sum to give to the California Tahoe Conservancy so South Lake Tahoe can go forward with the Lakeview Commons project? It’s possible the state will try to sell bonds this spring before the governor’s May budget revision comes out. Bond sales […]
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By Mark Grossi, Fresno Bee As five blizzards pounded California’s high country last week, people across the state tracked the swiftly growing snowpack without leaving their offices or homes. A remarkably accurate network of sensors fed estimates to state officials who posted them on a Web page that the public can easily use to track […]
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By Cathy Locke, Sacramento Bee El Dorado County officials this week took a critical step toward resolving recreational and environmental management problems that have plagued the historic Rubicon Trail. The Board of Supervisors this week designated an official route for an approximately eight-mile stretch of the 22-mile trail that extends from Georgetown in El Dorado […]
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By Mark Glover, Sacramento Bee While loan loss provisions cut into the profits of other regional banks, Placerville-based El Dorado Savings Bank kept humming right along in 2009. The bank this week reported a profit of $10.7 million in 2009, a 12 percent increase over $9.5 million in 2008. For the fourth quarter, ended Dec. […]
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By Kathryn Reed Intrawest unloaded its third property in two months on Friday with the sale of the Village at Squaw Valley to Squaw Valley Ski Corp. “It is something that has been ongoing for a while and is not related whatsoever to what our parent company is going through,” Ian Galbraith, spokesman for Vancouver, […]
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By Ashley Powers, Los Angeles Times The Nevada Supreme Court dealt a huge blow Thursday to Las Vegas officials’ controversial plan to siphon water from the state’s rural north, saying that a faulty application process invalidates the south’s claim to tens of thousands of acre-feet of water. Starting in 1989, Las Vegas-area water officials – […]
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By Don Strickland Manual and electronic readings today indicate that water content in California’s mountain snowpack is 115 percent of normal for the date statewide. This time last year, snow water content was 61 percent of normal statewide. “Today’s snow survey offers us some cautious optimism as we continue to play catch-up with our statewide […]
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By Jaclyn O’Malley, Reno Gazette-Journal A 72-year-old Incline Village woman who was arraigned Thursday is accused of stabbing her elderly husband up to 200 times in a rage that was possibly motivated by her mental anguish over her husband’s onset of dementia and worries about money, according to the warrant charging her with his murder. […]
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By Margo Roosevelt, Los Angeles Times Will clear-cutting forests increase global warming? That’s a contentious issue as California, which is seeking to slash its carbon footprint, wrestles over rules to manage the state’s private forests. (Thursday) the Center for Biological Diversity, a Tucson-based environmental group, filed lawsuits against the California Department of Forestry in seven […]
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