By Matt Stevens, Los Angeles Times Over the past year, scientists have studied California’s trees from the air, the ground and even using X-ray technology. Each time, they have arrived at some version of a similar dreary conclusion: The state’s ongoing drought is wreaking havoc on forests, killing millions more trees at each check. But […]
Read more
Three people were pulled from Lake Tahoe on Monday afternoon near Nevada Beach after their personal watercraft became disabled. “All three persons were nearly hypothermic, and the 13 year old complained of neck pain from the Jet Ski crash,” Douglas County sheriff’s deputies said in a press release. All three were taken to Barton Memorial Hospital. […]
Read more
By Riley McDermid, San Francisco Business Times AT&T is pushing a bill in the California legislature that would allow it to phase out landlines starting in 2020 if there is an alternative, like cell phones, available to customers. Bill sponsor and San Jose Assemblyman Evan Low told local CBS affiliate KPIX that the bill will […]
Read more
A Reno man who was arrested Monday night faces charges in Douglas County and South Lake Tahoe. Micah Flaherty, 33, allegedly robbed the Kmart in South Lake Tahoe about 5:10pm May 30. Deputies from Douglas County saw him driving in the Stateline area. The Volkswagen turned into Zephyr Cove Campground, where deputies apprehended him. The […]
Read more
A road rage incident Monday night sent a Stateline man to jail. Both drivers involved called May 30 just before 11pm to complain about the aggressive and possibly intoxicated driving of the other. The drivers were coming down Kingsbury Grade when one allegedly pointed a gun at the other. Douglas County deputies located both vehicles. […]
Read more
By Ricardo Torres, Las Vegas Sun Nevada prison guards will no longer use birdshot rounds and instead opt for less-lethal options when fights erupt, the agency said Tuesday. The removal of all birdshot was ordered by new Department of Corrections Director James Dzurenda, with the full support of Gov. Brian Sandoval. It became effective Tuesday. […]
Read more
By Associated Press A federal judge Tuesday sentenced the former head of the nation’s largest public pension fund to four and 1/2 years in prison in a case in which the pension fund CEO acknowledged accepting more than $200,000 in bribes and trying to steer investments to help an associate. Senior U.S. District Court Judge […]
Read more
By Marcella Corona and Mike Higdon, Reno Gazette-Journal The former owner of Lake Tahoe Brewing Co., Michael Candelario, turned himself in to Carson City Sheriff’s deputies on Tuesday after he was linked to an ongoing theft investigation. Candelario, 33, was wanted for two outstanding arrest warrants issued by the Carson City Justice Court. He was […]
Read more
By Evan Maxwell, Reno Gazette-Journal Long-simmering political tension between Lake Tahoe casinos and the government of Douglas County broke out into open warfare last week. In an extraordinary three-hour presentation before the Douglas County Board of County Commissioners last Monday, District Attorney Mark Jackson leveled charges of corruption, illegal collusion and political malfeasance against the leadership […]
Read more
By Jeremy W. Peters, New York Times WASHINGTON — Leaders of the Republican Party have begun internal deliberations over what would be fundamental changes to the way its presidential nominees are chosen, a recognition that the chaotic process that played out this year is seriously flawed and helped exacerbate tensions within the party. In a […]
Read more