By James Queally, Kate Mather and Cindy Chang, Los Angeles Times In 2013, something changed on the streets of Los Angeles. Police officers began making fewer arrests. The following year, the Los Angeles Police Department’s arrest numbers dipped even lower and continued to fall, dropping by 25 percent from 2013 to 2015. The statewide […]
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By David Caraccio, Sacramento Bee A historical and prominent estate in Lake Tahoe has sold for nearly $29 million, according to several reports. The 10-acre property, known as the Drum Estate, on the north shore of Meeks Bay, boasts over 700 feet of shoreline, two piers and a compound of structures. A vintage main […]
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By Bart Jansen, USA Today President Trump’s temporary travel ban and an inhospitable political climate could punch an $18 billion hole in U.S. tourism by international visitors over the next two years, projections by travel analysts show. Foreign tourism is a $250 billion-a-year business in the United States, and Trump’s original and revised executive orders temporarily […]
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By Christopher Cadelago, Sacramento Bee When Gov. Jerry Brown campaigned for his sales and income tax increase five years ago, he appealed to statewide voters by arguing it would cost them just “one penny more” for their cappuccinos. In the Bay Area trying to build support for his $5.2 billion road-funding package, Brown acknowledged […]
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A 24-year-old San Luis Obispo man had to be airlifted out of Desolation Wilderness on the afternoon of March 30 after injuring his leg. A California Highway Patrol helicopter dropped El Dorado County search and rescue volunteers onto Jakes Peak. They then skied to the victim. Because he could not ski out a hoisting seat […]
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A house in Kirkwood was totally destroyed today because of a gas line. This was the second house to catch fire in seven days because of a gas line. The March 31 incident leveled the house. It was on Dangberg Street, about a half mile from the March 25 explosion. In the first incident the […]
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A 30-year-old South Lake Tahoe man has been arrested in the beating that left another local man fighting for his life. Alberto Ochoa was arrested March 30 in Rancho Cucamonga on charges of robbery, kidnapping and assault with a deadly weapon. He was reportedly driving the Subaru that had been stolen in South Lake Tahoe. […]
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By Krista Langlois, High Country News In the late 1980s, a Japanese scientist named Koji Minoura stumbled on a medieval poem that described a tsunami so large it had swept away a castle and killed a thousand people. Intrigued, Minoura and his team began looking for paleontological evidence of the tsunami beneath rice paddies, and […]
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By Sean Whaley, Las Vegas Review-Journal CARSON CITY — Opponents of the use of dogs and GPS technology to hunt black bears testified for a bill Thursday to ban the practice in Nevada. The Assembly Natural Resources, Agriculture and Mining Committee heard Assembly Bill 443, which would follow the lead of other Western states, including […]
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By Adam Ashton, Sacramento Bee The pension fund for California teachers is about $97 billion short of the assets it would need to pay all of the benefits it owes to its members today, according to a new valuation from the California State Teachers’ Retirement System. CalSTRS released the new accounting ahead of its monthly […]
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