Fire destroyed a vacant Tahoe City house on Thursday morning. By the time North Tahoe Fire Protection District firefighters arrived at about 5:50am Nov. 17 the house was fully engulfed with flames, and power lines were down. The house on the corner of Sequoia Avenue and Highway 89 was a vacation home, according to officials. […]
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By Sandra Chereb, Las Vegas Review-Journal CARSON CITY — Nevada has received a $978,000 federal grant to combat and reduce recidivism among inmates convicted of property crimes and drug offenses, the state Department of Corrections announced Wednesday. The grant from the U.S. Department of Justice will fund a program targeting male property crime offenders between […]
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By Alexandra Witze, Air & Space To know California’ true water content in the mountains help is coming in the form of a King Air A90. Scientists have loaded the airplane with instruments to study California’s snowpack in unprecedented detail. Each spring, they fly back and forth over the mountain ranges, measuring where the snow […]
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By Kathryn Reed Sifting through assumptions and reality. That is the goal of a consulting team hired by the city of South Lake Tahoe to work on the vacation home rental quagmire. More than 70 people attended a meeting Wednesday night aimed at getting the public’s opinions about these rentals that are usually found in […]
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Officials have released the name of the pedestrian how was struck and killed in South Lake Tahoe on Nov. 4. Daniel Curry, 58, of Carson City was crossing Highway 50 outside of a crosswalk near the Marriott when a taxi hit him. The driver has not been charged. — Lake Tahoe News staff report
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The Douglas County School District board on Nov. 15 agreed to give the potential buyer of Kingsbury Middle School more time to sort through the regulatory process. Patrick Taylor in July entered into an agreement with Douglas County School District to purchase the 22-plus acre site with 36,000-square-feet of space for $3.25 million, which included paying […]
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By Science Magazine While climate contributes strongly to fire activity in the Sierra Nevada Mountains, human activity, starting well before European contact, has also played an important part in the severity, frequency and sheer numbers of forest fires occurring in the area, according to researchers. “Initially, we did work to see if we could develop […]
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El Dorado County elections officials released updated numbers this afternoon. The late ballots are mostly the result of people walking their forms in on Election Day and provisional ballots. The actual results are certified 28 days after the election. Here are the current numbers as of Nov. 16: South Lake Tahoe City Council Brooke Laine […]
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South Lake Tahoe police officers are looking for a man accused of contaminating the food court inside Raley’s near Stateline. A man walked into the grocery store Nov. 15, approached the self-serve food display in the Hot Wok food court, and dispensed an unknown substance on top of the food, according to officers. He then […]
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By Thomas Moore, Las Vegas Sun In the early 1980s, a battle was fought and lost in the casinos of Las Vegas and Atlantic City. The result, said two experts at the Cutting Edge Table games conference at the Flamingo Las Vegas this week, was that slot machines won the high ground on the casino […]
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