By Devin Middlebrook Bears, raccoons, and other wildlife in search of an easy meal are increasingly visiting residential areas in the Tahoe-Truckee region. It may not always be obvious, but a bag of garbage, bowl of pet food, or plate of leftovers left outside your home or vacation site can harm wildlife. Of all the […]
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By Susan Wood Looks like the thousands of South Tahoe Public Utility District customers are going with the flow in respect to proposed water and sewer rate increases. The district scheduled a workshop on May 12 to gather input and provide a presentation on the infrastructure-laden plan. No one showed up. The capital improvement plan […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE — The Tahoe Transportation District board on Friday took action regarding the proposed loop road in an attempt to avoid creating more blight in an already blighted area. In other words, board members don’t want another Ta-hole as was created with the Chateau project when it went belly up because financing […]
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It’s still unknown if El Dorado County taxpayers will be cutting another check to former supervisors Norma Santiago and Ron Briggs. Their attorney as well as special counsel for the county was in Placer County Superior Court on May 13 pleading their respective cases. The dispute is being heard in Auburn because El Dorado County judges said […]
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By Scott Sonner, AP The head of the U.S. Bureau of Land Management says his agency has a billion-dollar problem. Neil Kornze says the BLM is fighting an uphill battle to protect federal rangeland across the West while managing tens of thousands of wild horses and caring for tens of thousands more already rounded up […]
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By Kathryn Reed Even though the funding for El Dorado County’s new public safety headquarters in Placerville has not been secured, the price has escalated by millions of dollars, all because of inaction by the chief administrative officer. Supervisor Shiva Frentzen wrote a letter to her colleagues and then read it into the record at […]
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By Cathy Locke, Sacramento Bee A California Highway Patrol helicopter crew aided in the rescue of three people Thursday morning after their small utility vehicle rolled down an embankment along the American Canyon Trail near the El Dorado County community of Cool. As crew members of CHP Helicopter 20 were flying over the Folsom Lake […]
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By Lake Tahoe News The Georgetown Preservation Society is challenging El Dorado County Board of Supervisors’ approval of the construction of a 9,100-square-foot Dollar General store. Attorney Donald Mooney of Davis, who is representing the West Slope organization, said his client has exhausted all other administrative remedies. The court documents, which were filed May 6, […]
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By Kathryn Reed El Dorado County’s lone contested judicial race on the June 7 ballot is turning ugly, with the challenger accusing the incumbent of misleading the public about political contributions. Ashlee Titus, an attorney with a law firm out of Sacramento, on May 10 filed a complaint with the Fair Political Practices Commission on […]
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By Sharon Noguchi, San Jose Mercury News Just how badly are we addicted to our mobile devices? It may be even worse than we admit, according to a survey by children’s advocacy group Common Sense Media. The San Francisco-based organization bills the study released Tuesday as the first to explore parents’ and teens’ growing dependence on […]
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