The challenge to California’s fire fee is moving forward. Sacramento Superior Court Judge Shelleyanne W.L. Chang last month granted the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers’ Association’s motion to notice a class of litigants who want to abolish the fee being assessed on people living in state responsibility areas. Those in Meyers are paying the annual CalFire fee. […]
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Douglas County School District is on a one-hour delay today because of the snow. Washoe County schools are on a two-hour delay. Roads are slick. For chain requirements and other details about the highways, click on the state icons on the Home page of Lake Tahoe News. For those going into the backcountry on Feb. […]
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By Kathryn Reed INCLINE VILLAGE – Looking a bit like the desert of southern Utah, the landscape seems familiar. But this is another world. Curiosity, a six-wheeled robot about the size of a car, is providing scientists with new insight about the composition of Mars as well as photographs of Earth’s neighbor. “There are layers […]
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South Lake Tahoe police detectives believe a drug deal gone wrong led to Saturday night’s shooting death of Dennis Michael Wright Jr. The 40-year-old from Amador County was shot at least once in the chest on Jan. 30 at about 7:45pm in the parking lot of the Beverly Lodge. He died shortly thereafter at Barton […]
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By Doyle Rice, USA Today Several “big and dangerous” avalanches took a toll on skiers, snowboarders and snowmobilers in the western USA this month, making January the deadliest month on the mountains since 2008. January is typically the month with the most avalanche fatalities in the U.S., but this January proved worse than normal, with 11 people killed, […]
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By Megan Messerly, Las Vegas Sun When electric car company Faraday Future was thinking of building a manufacturing plant in Southern Nevada, it needed water. Its operation would require 630 acre-feet of water, or about the amount it takes to water one golf course, said John Entsminger, general manager of the Southern Nevada Water Authority. […]
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Two skiers are being escorted out the wilderness tonight after having skied out of bounds at Mount Rose Ski Area. Washoe County sheriff’s search and rescue team was altered to two men needing assistance at about 4:30pm Jan. 30. At about 9:30pm they were located and being taken out of the woods. “They are both […]
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One person has been shot to death in South Lake Tahoe and the suspects are on the loose. Police officers were notified about 8pm Saturday that shots had been fired at the Beverly Lodge on Highway 50. When they arrived they found a man laying in the parking lot. He was transported to Barton Memorial Hospital […]
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By Pashtana Usufzy, Las Vegas Review Journal Health officials say a disease believed to have caused a major increase in birth defects among Brazilian-born babies is unlikely to flourish in Nevada, though travelers could bring it to the state. As of Thursday, 31 cases of Zika virus disease have been confirmed in the United States, but […]
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By Megan Messerly, Las Vegas Sun A contingent of Nevada conservatives remains undeterred in its efforts to repeal a portion of Gov. Brian Sandoval’s $1.5 billion omnibus tax plan passed during the last legislative session, even as those repeal efforts remain tied up in the courts. Lawyers from a coalition supporting the tax plan filed […]
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