By Paul Rogers, Bay Area News Group Immigration and housing dominated the headlines from Sacramento this year. But with little fanfare, state lawmakers working with Gov. Jerry Brown also approved a sweeping measure to provide $4.1 billion in new funding for parks and water projects — everything from building Bay Area hiking trails to expanding […]
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By Kathryn Reed If your vacation rental in South Lake Tahoe – full house or just a room – is not permitted, get ready to be fined. The City Council is contemplating hiring a firm to clamp down on those who are operating without a permit and therefore presumably not paying transient occupancy tax. The […]
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A South Lake Tahoe woman died Sunday from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident in Hope Valley. The 64-year-old woman’s name is not being released pending notification of next of kin. She died on her way to Renown Medical Center in Reno. Just before 5pm Sept. 17 the motorcyclist was driving on Highway 88 about […]
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A South Lake Tahoe man died Sunday night when he was struck by a vehicle on Highway 395 in Gardnerville. For unknown reasons Rosendo Ramirez Amaya, 54, was lying in the middle of the northbound lane, according to the Nevada Highway Patrol. The driver was not able to avoid Amaya. The driver called emergency personnel […]
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By Joann Eisenbrandt The legal roadblock that has prevented construction of a new courthouse facility in Placerville has just been removed. More than two years after the Placerville Historic Preservation League first challenged the environmental document approving the courthouse, the First Appellate Court of Appeal in San Francisco denied the appeal. Currently, the county’s Superior […]
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By Sean Whaley, Las Vegas Review-Journal CARSON CITY — The Nevada Supreme Court has ruled that a state law requiring both parties to consent to a recording of a telephone conversation does not apply when the recordings are made by a party located outside of the state. The unanimous decision, dated Thursday, was in […]
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By Las Vegas Sun When will they stop running and start governing? It’s a question voters increasingly have been asking themselves for at least four decades. Democratic pollster Patrick Caddell first described the phenomenon in 1976, and it was explored more thoroughly by journalist Sidney Blumenthal in a 1980 book, “The Permanent Campaign.” Those who […]
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Three people were injured and one arrested after the vehicle they were in struck a tree on Pioneer Trail on Sunday. Amber Sabourin, 21, of Novato was driving east on Pioneer Trail on Sept. 17 about 1:25am when she told California Highway Patrol officers she saw an animal and swerved to miss it. She missed […]
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By Melissa Siig, Moonshine Ink When Kila Properties purchased the dilapidated Henrikson building in 2013, the majority of Tahoe City residents and businesses breathed a sigh of relief. The run-down Henrikson building, built in the late 1950s (much of it without permits), today is only partially occupied and serves as an eyesore at a key […]
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Updated 5:15pm: The French Fire burning near Shingle Springs grew to 136 acres and is now 75 percent contained. It started in the afternoon of Sept. 17 off French Creek Road. CalFire says forward progress has been stopped. The cause is under investigation. — Lake Tahoe News staff report
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