By Joann Eisenbrandt PLACERVILLE – “It’s not a sprint, it’s a marathon,” El Dorado County Board of Supervisors Chairman Ron Mikulaco told those assembled in the board chambers Jan. 12 for updated presentations by representatives of the El Dorado County and Georgetown Divide Resource Conservation Districts, Eldorado National Forest and the CalFire Amador-El Dorado Unit […]
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By Kathryn Reed Jim Nichols is no longer at the helm of Douglas County. He has been out on paid leave since Jan. 12 and it goes through Jan. 29. After that time he will no longer be affiliated with the county. “It was a mutual agreement,” Commissioner Nancy McDermid told Lake Tahoe News. “We […]
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By Mark Bergen, Re/Code Silicon Valley has California sun, but Detroit has snow. And Ford wants to use that climate as an asset in the critical race to develop self-driving cars. On Sunday evening, Ford said that it will be “conducting the industry’s first” self-driving car tests in winter weather, including snow, taking on a […]
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Updated 7:43pm: The road is clear and open. Snow is the only obstacle now. Updated 4:47pm: A boulder the size of a motor home is blocking Highway 50 east of Wrights Lake. “They’ll need dynamite or an explosive to move it,” California Highway Patrol Officer Quinn Cuthbertson told Lake Tahoe News. The boulder was split […]
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Traffic lanes on Highway 28 will be temporarily reduced in the areas of Country Club Drive and Northwood Boulevard in Incline Village. The road will periodically be reduced to a single lane, with flaggers alternating directions of traffic, between approximately 10am and 3:30pm through Jan. 15. The lane reductions are part of a Nevada Department of […]
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By Matt Stevens, Los Angeles Times For the last several months, officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency have sounded a lot more like salesmen than bureaucrats. And their sales pitch for flood insurance — which harps on the dangers of El Niño while espousing the benefits of protecting your property — has largely worked. […]
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An El Dorado County fire chief is back behind bars — this time on domestic violence charges. Garden Valley Fire Chief William Dekker was arrested early Jan. 13. Bail was set at $7,500. Dekker, 60, was arrested in December on driving under the influence charges. On Dec. 22 the district announced that Dekker had resigned and […]
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By Kathryn Reed Luxurious, high-end housing on the shores of Lake Tahoe designed to be second or third homes for the wealthy – presumably from the Bay Area – is set to break ground in summer 2016. The project isn’t new. It’s been stalled because of the economy and the inability of the developers to […]
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By Gerry Smith, BlombergNews Time Warner Inc.’s strategy against Netflix is taking shape. Hoping to keep viewers who are dropping cable subscriptions for online streaming services, Time Warner is negotiating to make full seasons of more shows available to pay-TV customers on demand, according to Time Warner Chief Financial Officer Howard Averill. Time Warner’s cable […]
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By Paul Rogers, San Jose Mercury News Now that 2016 has gotten off to a wet start, with a series of El Niño storms drenching California in recent days, the question is turning up with increasing frequency at dinner parties and coffee shops: “How will we know when the drought is over?” The answer, water […]
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