By Don Melvin, CNN A heck of a lot more Americans were toking up in 2012-13 than 10 years before — and not for medical reasons, either — according to a new study. The percentage of American adults who had used marijuana within the last year was 9.5 percent, the study found. That compared to […]
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A gunman robbed the Round Table Pizza in Truckee on Thursday night. The robber, who brandished a black semiautomatic handgun at an employee, left with an undisclosed amount of cash. The suspect entered the Donner Pass Road restaurant about 10pm Oct. 22 just before closing. The manager was totaling the daily receipts and preparing the night deposit […]
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By Brian K. Sullivan, BloombergBusiness It has choked Singapore with smoke, triggered Pacific typhoons and left Vietnamese coffee growers staring nervously at dwindling reservoirs. In Africa, cocoa farmers are blaming it for bad harvests, and in the Americas, it has Argentines bracing for lower milk production and Californians believing that rain is finally, mercifully on […]
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Gilbert Wetenkamp, the South Lake Tahoe man accused of killing a bear in July, was granted more time to present his case. Wetenkamp’s public defender on Oct. 23 requested the delay for further discovery. The next hearing is scheduled for Dec. 4 in El Dorado County Superior Court in South Lake Tahoe. In September Wetenkamp pleaded […]
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Soil and water samples will be taken next week on the South Shore in the ongoing contamination case of multiple wells. It was summer 2014 when Tetrachloroethene (PCE) was discovered in two of Lukins Brothers wells along with some private wells in the area. Too much of it and the water is deemed undrinkable. PCE can […]
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By Anne Knowles MINDEN — Dams and other surface storage are “dinosaurs.” That’s according to Daniel P. Beard, the former commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, the government agency responsible for building and maintaining 475 dams across the country. Beard spoke before and after a showing of the 90-minute documentary “Dam Nation” at the […]
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By Blake Ellis and Melanie Hicken, CNNMoney Every year, police officers seize tens of thousands of rifles, shotguns, machine guns and other firearms from criminals across the country. While many agencies destroy these weapons, a growing number of police departments are selling them instead. And it’s not always by choice. Since 2009, at least 11 […]
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By Jason Samenow, Washington Post Planet Earth is on a high temperature record-breaking tear this year, which shows no sign of relenting. 2015 is, by far, on track to become the warmest year in recorded history. NOAA reports this week the globally-averaged temperature for September 2015 was the warmest of all previous Septembers on record, […]
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South Lake Tahoe is selling coverage to Barton Health for the Robert Maloff Center of Excellence. The facility will be a two-story health and sports performance center just behind Barton Memorial Hospital near the emergency room, along with a three-story free standing garage. It is expected to open in 2017. The city has nearly 200,000-square-feet […]
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By Paul Nelson, KTVN-TV The water level at Lake Tahoe has slowly dropped, after four years of below-average winters. The lake’s elevation is 1.13 feet below its natural rim of 6,223 feet above sea level. “The Truckee River stopped flowing towards Reno about a year ago,” Madonna Dunbar, Tahoe Water Supplier Association Executive Director said. […]
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