Publisher’s note: Lake Tahoe News this month will be running several stories leading up to the 10th anniversary of the Angora Fire on June 24, 2007. By Susan Wood A Lake Tahoe Unified School District teacher overcame a critical test of resilience with her husband while confronting the loss of her trees, her roots and […]
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A swarm of earthquakes continues to rattle the Gardnerville area. While most have been less than a magnitude of 2.0, a 3.5 temblor struck at 9:31pm on June 9. It was located about 12 southeast of Garderville. At 10:15pm a 2.2 quake hit. A 3.9 quake hit on June 6. There have been no reports […]
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By Keith Ridler, AP BOISE, Idaho — State officials have approved an Idaho utility company’s plan to close a coal-fired power plant in Nevada about 10 years ahead of schedule and raise monthly bills for customers to cover depreciation costs. The Idaho Public Utilities Commission announced Monday a settlement with Idaho Power to close […]
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By Dale Kasler, Sacramento Bee Californians pay about 15 cents a gallon extra at the pump to fight climate change. Here’s what they’re getting for their money: continued progress in the effort to curb carbon. Greenhouse gas emissions fell by 1.5 million tons in California in 2015, state officials announced Wednesday. The reduction was the […]
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Search efforts resumed Friday morning for a kayaker who was reported missing from the D.L. Bliss State Park area on June 8. Pham Dan Vu Thanh called a friend Thursday at 9:15am to tell him he was going kayaking and camping in the Lester Beach area. As of 6:15pm he had not been hear from. […]
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Updated 6:25pm: Just before 7 Friday morning firefighters arrived at a house on Paloma Street in South Lake Tahoe that was fully engulfed in flames. A woman living in the duplex was taken to Barton Memorial Hospital for smoke inhalation. Two dogs at the residence died in the fire. The cause of the June 9 […]
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Crews working overnight to remove the mounds of mud from Highway 50 in the American River canyon were able to clear the roadway so one lane is now open. Caltrans originally thought the road would be closed until Friday night if not longer. Expect it to be slow going between White Hall and Kyburz. The […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Tahoe High School girls’ soccer coach was exonerated after the school district conducted an investigation, but many who filed the complaints were never interviewed. The school district said it found nothing to keep Mark Salmon from returning to the sidelines. It was a five-week investigation that recently culminated. The exact date […]
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By Benjamin Weiser, New York Times NEW YORK — There were the usual accouterments of an organized crime prosecution: an illegal poker house and cases of stolen cigarettes, authorities said. But there was also a scheme to defraud casinos with a hacking device that predicted the behavior of particular models of electronic slot machines. And […]
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A mudslide has closed a section of Highway 50 between Tahoe and Placerville. The slide at first had traffic down to one lane on June 8, but the debris kept coming. Caltrans said at 5pm that they will “re-evaluate opening in 24 hours.” The slide is at Alder Creek. According to the California Highway Patrol, […]
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