By Kathryn Reed Enforcement, or the lack thereof, is a major complaint of South Lake Tahoe’s vacation home rental ordinance. Temporary relief is on the way. The City Council last week approved funding for a private security firm to work exclusively on VHR issues. The $30,800 for the 90-day contract is coming from the Undesignated Vacation […]
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By A.C. Thompson and Ken Schwencke, ProPublica In 2015, the authorities in California documented 837 hate-crime incidents, charting a surge in offenses motivated by religious intolerance toward Muslims and Jews, while crimes against Latinos grew by 35 percent. Shortly after Donald J. Trump was elected the country’s next president, the Southern Poverty Law Center put […]
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A former El Dorado County resident was sentenced to one year in county jail for felony animal cruelty, operating without a license and 11 other counts related to her sale of puppies imported from South Korea Ginger Turk, 46, was a puppy broker, imported tiny, underage, unweaned, high-priced ($4,000-plus) puppies from South Korea and sold […]
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By Dan Thompson, AP SACRAMENTO – Voters’ approval of Gov. Jerry Brown’s sentencing reform initiative may give California the long-term solution it needs to end a decadelong legal battle over prison conditions that twice reached the U.S. Supreme Court and has cost taxpayers billions. Proposition 57 was pitched as a safety valve to reduce an […]
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By Sam Stanton, Sacramento Bee Trial for Luis Enriquez Monroy Bracamontes was set Friday for next October, but only after the suspect in the slaying of two Sacramento-area deputies briefly objected, telling a judge he preferred an earlier date. “So for me, it will be better in March,” Bracamontes told Sacramento Superior Court Judge Steve […]
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By Associated Press The slowly improving economy could boost travel over the Thanksgiving holiday to levels not seen in nine years. AAA forecasts that 48.7 million Americans will travel, the busiest Thanksgiving period on U.S. roads and skies since 2007, the year before the global financial crisis plunged the U.S. economy into a deep recession. […]
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The Tahoe Basin Area Plan passed the first hurdle when the Placer County planning commissioners approved the document last week. Next month the Board of Supervisors will vote on the plan, which also includes the Tahoe City Lodge project. The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency Governing Board will be the last stop in January. The area plan […]
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By Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazette-Journal It doesn’t take a wildland fire professional to see how fuel reduction can protect forests and communities. It just takes a field trip to the site of the Emerald Fire on the South Shore. Despite burning at the same time and under similar conditions to the disastrous Little Valley Fire, […]
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By Karen Kaplan, Los Angeles Times The United States is one of the richest countries in the world, but it would look dramatically different if its 50 states were organized according to income instead of geography. If that were the case, residents of the poorest state in the union would have a median household income […]
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Nevada spent $4.6 million to build what transportation officials say is now a safe truck ramp on Mount Rose Highway. The truck ramp on the westbound side of the highway in Incline Village has been converted from a rock surface to asphalt. A series of six pre-tensioned drag nets were installed to catch the front grill […]
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