A South Lake Tahoe woman died in single-vehicle accident on the West Slope on Saturday. Celina Alexandre, 26, was headed east on Highway 50 near Paul Bunyon Road in Camino when her vehicle drifted off the roadway and struck a tree, according to the California Highway Patrol. This occurred about 9:35pm April 30. She was […]
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An Incline Village woman had to be rescued from the cliffs at Emerald Bay on Thursday afternoon. Jane Rylander had been climbing in the steep cliff bands from Vikingsholm parking lot down toward the castle. She became stuck on the cliff band after slipping and sliding down the embankment. She was not hurt, but she […]
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By Sean Whaley, Las Vegas Review-Journal For the first time in aviation history, a fixed-wing unmanned aircraft has successfully tested a cloud-seeding payload during an experimental flight in Nevada. Flown at Hawthorne Industrial Airport under the state’s Federal Aviation Administration Unmanned Aircraft Systems Test Site designation, the Drone America Savant aircraft reached an altitude of […]
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By J.D. Morris, Las Vegas Sun Caesars Entertainment, the casino giant behind many resorts on the Las Vegas Strip and two at Lake Tahoe, reported its first quarter earnings Thursday. Revenue of $1.2 billion is an increase of 6.7 percent from the first quarter of 2015. However, that doesn’t include results from Caesars Entertainment Operating […]
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By Cindy Chang and Alene Tchekmedyian, Los Angeles Times In Santa Clara County, jail guards sent text messages using racial slurs to describe African Americans, Jews and Vietnamese Americans. In San Francisco, as many as 19 police officers have been implicated in a texting scandal involving racial and homophobic insults. Recent controversies over emails and texts […]
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By Scott Smith, AP Residents of drought-stricken California doubled their water conservation efforts in March compared with the month before by turning off their sprinklers when the rain fell and changing habits, officials said Tuesday. Cities and businesses used 24.3 percent less water compared with the same time in 2013. That’s twice the saving from […]
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By Siobhan McAndrew, Reno Gazette-Journal In a lawsuit filed Friday, three days before Harvey Whittemore’s release from serving a sentence for breaking campaign finance laws, the Nevada lawyer and lobbyist and his wife are being sued by Bank of the West. Filed in Reno’s Second Judicial District Court on April 29, the lawsuit accuses Annette and […]
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Two South Lake Tahoe men were stabbed Wednesday night near the bike path behind Meek’s Lumber in the center of town. The names of the victims – ages 31 and 43 – have not been released. They were found at the corner of Highway 50 and Al Tahoe Boulevard about 11:20pm May 4. One had […]
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By Kathryn Reed Water customers at the lake say they are suing Douglas County because they are being forced to subsidize another water company, which is against state law, and therefore they are being discriminated against. “If the county means what it says and every water system must stand on its own, then they need […]
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By Kathryn Reed El Dorado County supervisors appear to be putting the hiring of a public information officer and swimming pool over fully funding the sheriff’s department. There is a $7 million budget deficit for the fiscal year that starts July 1. Instead of recommending cuts, the board last week told acting CEO Larry Combs […]
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