Two Truckee teenagers were arrested Oct. 12 on felony vandalism charges. During the last several months the Truckee Police Department has received multiple reports of graffiti on the walls of numerous businesses along the Highway 89 south of Deerfield Drive, the new mouse hole pedestrian crossing as well as inside Truckee High School. The same […]
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By John Rosengren, AARP Bulletin Beauford Burton had enjoyed the occasional poker game in his youth, but in his 60s the slots hooked him. He and his wife, Sharon, started making the 2 1/2-hour drive every Friday from their home in Kings Mountain, N.C., to Harrah’s Cherokee Casino Resort, where they won occasionally but lost […]
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Smoke is filling the skies in the basin, Truckee and Reno. Mostly it’s from the prescribed fires in the Eldorado National Forest. Firefighters in the surrounding area have also been working manmade and lightning caused fires. The South Shore firebug continues to confound fire investigators. A fire on the north side of Lake Tahoe Airport burned […]
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By William V. Theobald , Reno Gazette-Journal WASHINGTON — The names on the ballot say the Nevada Senate race is between Republican Rep. Joe Heck and Democrat Catherine Cortez Masto, a former attorney general. But the ads on TV screens across the state show the contest is in some ways more a battle between the […]
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By Deborah Sullivan Brennan, San Diego Union Tribune The West is almost certain to experience a decades-long drought by the end of the century, if greenhouse emissions continue as usual, a new climate study concluded. The chance that the Southwest will experience a megadrought – a dry period lasting 35 years or more – […]
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Sales volume around the lake was up 20 percent and the median price of a home increased 12 percent to $540,000 for the third quarter. In recent years, Tahoe City and the East Shore have been more susceptible to variances, however both saw increases in volume (6 and 28 percent, respectively) with significant jumps in […]
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Placer County supervisors on Tuesday voted 4-1 to approve the controversial Martis Valley West project. Supervisor Jennifer Montgomery, where the 760-unit gate community would be built, voted no. Opponents, of which there are many, have 30 days from Oct. 11 to file a lawsuit to stop the project. Many expect the courts to eventually weigh […]
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Smoke in the Tahoe basin is being blamed on a controlled fire in Eldorado National Forest, according the U.S. Forest Service. Not only is the smoke visible, but the smell is strong. The feds plan to continue the burns more days this week. A couple hundred acres are being treated. — Lake Tahoe News staff […]
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By Dale Kasler, Sacramento Bee California’s major reservoirs are holding 69 percent more water than a year ago, the U.S. government announced Friday, but regulators warned that drought conditions continue to plague the state. In its annual inventory of water in storage, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation said the six key reservoirs owned by the […]
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By Reno Gazette-Journal Just when it seemed like undercover police cars couldn’t get any stealthier, along comes this. After adding red- and blue-emergency lights inside the front visors of unmarked police cars, Ford said Monday it is introducing rear emergency lights that are built into the spoiler. The system means that in states where officers […]
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