By Jim Krajewski, Reno Gazette-Journal David Slaughter was arrested earlier this week in the death of former Truckee football coach Bob Shaffer. Slaughter, 54, from Sacramento, was charged with vehicular manslaughter. Shaffer was killed April 1 when he was driving northbound on Interstate 89 just south of Cold Creek Campground in Sierra County. Slaughter was […]
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By John Potter, KNTV The worry many parents feel when putting their children on school buses won’t be experienced in the future. After much debate, Gov. Brian Sandoval signed legislation that requires new school buses bought after June 2019 to be equipped with seat belts. But for school buses on the road right now, Nevada […]
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Sierra Nevada College is cutting positions in order to be fiscally solvent. The 2017-18 budget includes the elimination of 4.75 full time equivalent positions (this affects six people); reduction in hours equivalent to affect the equivalent of 1.5 FTE positions (six individuals) being reduced from full to three-quarter time (still benefit eligible), and 4.5 FTE […]
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By Sarah D. Wire, Los Angeles Times Some of California’s decisions about how to use its water would be relegated to the federal government under a bill passed by the House on Wednesday. Republicans say the bill will bring more water to the parched Central Valley. California’s Democratic senators have promised to fight the […]
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By Sam Stanton, Sacramento Bee A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected efforts by Sierra Pacific Industries to back out of a $100 million settlement over the massive Moonlight Fire that it claims was based on fraud and deception by government prosecutors in Sacramento. A three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals […]
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Homicide investigators with the El Dorado County Cold Case Task Force are trying to solve the nearly 4-year-old murder of Manpreet Singh at the USA gas station on Highway 50 and Lodi Avenue in South Lake Tahoe. Singh, 27, was gunned down Aug. 6, 2013, while working at the station. Video surveillance taken at 10:40pm […]
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By Kathryn Reed El Dorado County Superior Court is about to be down three judges. Steve Bailey this week made it known he would be resigning effective Aug. 31. Jim Wagoner is retiring effective Sept. 1. Nelson Brooks left earlier this year. The biggest surprise is the departure of Bailey, whose six-year term doesn’t expire […]
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The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency is ready to come up with another shoreline plan for the basin. The bi-state regulatory agency will take comments until Aug. 16 on the scoping document for the draft environmental impact statement. The plan that was adopted in 2008 got sidetracked by litigation from the League to Save Lake Tahoe. […]
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By Anjeanette Damon, Reno Gazette-Journal Lying under a bridge on a freezing night in February, Bill George had an idea of how close to death he might be even if he didn’t want to admit it to himself. By the time Lisa Lee, a case manager for Northern Nevada HOPES, found George, he was likely hours […]
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By Kathryn Reed The Fresh Ketch restaurant in South Lake Tahoe has been closed by the county health department because it doesn’t have any running water. A red sign from the county is on the front door saying why the restaurant is closed. Below it is a sign from the restaurant apologizing for the inconvenience. […]
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