By Associated Press State officials say the wild horse population is too large to be sustained by the rangeland on which the horses live. The Elko Daily Free Press reports that at a public hearing with the National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board, state veterinarian JJ Goicoechea said the horse population is in a […]
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By Reno Gazette-Journal Truckee High School senior Bella Bono has been volunteering for the Humane Society of Truckee-Tahoe since she was 10, but this year she had an idea – fund and install a solar array for the animal shelter. Bono started planning the solar installation in April, working with her father, Joe Bono, to […]
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Sept. 16 is the deadline for people to apply for the vacancy on the Lake Tahoe Unified School District board that was created when Ginger Nicolay-Davis resigned. Nicolay-Davis is now an employee of the district’s so she couldn’t be on the board. She left the board last month to be a speech specialist. Those interested […]
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By Sandra Chereb, Las Vegas Review-Journal CARSON CITY — Millions of dollars meant to help distressed Nevada homeowners stay in their homes at the height of the recession were squandered by a state contractor on excessive rent, holiday parties, employee gift cards and other lavishness, according to a scathing federal audit released Friday. The 60-page […]
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An equipment failure is being blamed for the power outage in the Stateline area this evening. NV Energy expects the lights to come back on about 9:30pm Sept. 10. The power has been out since 6pm. More than 2,400 customers are affected. A few customers in the Round Hill-Zephyr Cove areas are also without out […]
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By Wes Siler, Outside In Oregon, two elderly men are being billed $37 million for a fire the state says they started with their lawn mowers. In California, a homeowner is being charged $25 million for a fire authorities claim was sparked by a known electrical problem at his house. Could you be stuck with a […]
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A suspected drunken driver struck a group of cyclists riding west on Highway 50 near Lodi Avenue in South Lake Tahoe this morning. The two cyclists who were hit refused medical treatment. The driver of the small Ford SUV, according to a witness, switched lanes, accelerated and never stopped to see what he had done. […]
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Jeremy Meyers, the ex-superintendent of El Dorado County Office of Education who had two DUIs in a year, has employment at a West Slope school for this entire year. At the Sept. 8 board meeting the Black Oak Mine Unified School District board in Georgetown agreed to hire Meyers to be principal of Golden Sierra Junior Senior […]
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By KTVN-TV The Carson City Sheriff’s Office says they have located two missing runway teen girls. Two others remain missing. Still missing are 16-year-old Lindsey Hamby and 15-year-old Hailey Hamby, both of Carson City. The girls were last seen near the Black Jack Inn South Lake Tahoe, and surrounding hotels and motels. Authorities say the […]
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By Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazettte-Journal With time running out on the Congressional session Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., made a pitch for the reauthorization of the Lake Tahoe Restoration Act. The legislation would renew funding authorization for the original version of the act that expired in 2010. Heller’s version of reauthorization includes up to $415 million […]
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