Three people are wanted in connection with using seven counterfeit $100 bills at the CVS Pharmacy in Stateline on Sept. 30. The three incidents occurred at 12:07am, 4:17am and 6:24am. The different suspects entered CVS, purchased Visa gift cards in varying amounts and received cash back in change. The suspect in the first transaction is […]
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Owners of PlumpJack Squaw Valley Inn want to demolish the existing on-site structures to build a new multilevel hotel, two residential condominium buildings and an underground parking garage. The project would include landscaping, bicycle and pedestrians paths connecting the proposed buildings and on-site recreational amenities. Water, sewer and drainage improvements would also be included to support […]
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By Garrett M. Graff, Politico Nearly every American above a certain age remembers precisely where they were on Sept. 11, 2001. But for a tiny handful of people, those memories touch American presidential history. Shortly after the attacks began, the most powerful man in the world, who had been informed of the World Trade Center […]
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A wildland fire burning south of Gardnerville has destroyed one house and one outbuilding. The voluntary evacuation for the Ruhenstroth area of Douglas County has been lifted. Highway 395 is also now open in both directions. The fire was reported Oct. 2 at 1:10pm. About 75 acres have burned. “The conditions are improving due the […]
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Highway 50 over Echo Summit is expected to be open by 8:15pm after being closed since just after 6:30pm Sunday. Two vehicles collided on Oct. 2, with at least one person transported to Barton Memorial Hospital. While snow has been falling intermittently in the Lake Tahoe Basin since this afternoon, the California Highway Patrol would […]
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By Colton Lochhead, Las Vegas Review-Journal A Nevada Supreme Court commission on Thursday called for sweeping reforms of the state’s guardianship system in hopes of better protecting the state’s growing elderly and infirm population. The 236-page report comes as a culmination of 15 months’ worth of commission meetings dating back to June 2015 and includes […]
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Comments are being sought on the draft environmental impact report for the Palisades at Squaw residential housing project in Olympic Valley. Currently zoned for high-density residential development, the proposed undeveloped 19.9-acre project site could include up to 63 residential lots consisting of 33 lots for single-family homes and 30 lots for half-plex units, a 100-foot-wide […]
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A vacant house in South Lake Tahoe was destroyed by fire early this morning. Investigators are still trying to determine to the cause of the 2am Oct. 2 blaze on Chonokis Road. Estimated damage is $150,000. — Lake Tahoe News staff report
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By Associated Press Nevada has officially recovered as many jobs as it lost during the Great Recession and hit a new record for employment. Gov. Brian Sandoval announced Friday at the Governor’s Conference at Business that as of August, more jobs were created in Nevada in the past six years than the 186,400 that were […]
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By Kathryn Reed Rerouting the Upper Truckee River behind Lake Tahoe Airport is costing 50 percent more than planned and there is no way to know if less sediment will actually get carried into Lake Tahoe. “It’s hard to make conclusions about the overall sediment reduction,” Theresa Cody, a hydrologist with the U.S. Forest Service, […]
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