By Associated Press California lawmakers are joining environmental, labor and business leaders on a trip to see how Australia managed its longest and most severe drought on record. The nine-day visit that began Monday comes as California finishes its fourth year of drought. Australia endured a 12-year drought from 1997 to 2009. Democratic Senate President […]
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South Lake Tahoe police are looking for Sam Tovar, 32, in connection with a drive-by shooting last week. Officers searched a mobile home park on Oct. 20, but did not locate the suspect. Tovar — who also goes by Primo and David Angeles — is a suspect in the Oct. 14 shooting of a 19-year-old South […]
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By Bill Theobald, USA Today WASHINGTON — The risk of severe wildfires in the West also threatens the region’s increasingly scarce water supply, a study finds. The study, released Wednesday by the American Forest Foundation, highlights that wildfires are not just a public lands issue. Private and family lands also are at high risk, the […]
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Place County this week took steps to make it easier for developers to build lodging for tourists. The Board of Supervisors on Oct. 20 approved the North Lake Tahoe Town Centers Economic Development Incentive Program and Implementation Plan. “The program seeks to build more certainty into the development and permitting processes, reducing the risk to […]
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By Joshua Zaffos, High Country News The central organization that advocates for Western states to take over federal public lands, Utah state Rep. Ken Ivory’s American Lands Council, is apparently running roughshod over state legislative rules. The Colorado secretary of state announced last week that it has “reasonable grounds to believe” the ALC may have violated […]
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An undisclosed amount of cash was stolen last week from the Char Pit restaurant in Kings Beach. Employees told Placer County sheriff’s deputies that a man entered the unlocked rear door of the restaurant about 9pm Oct. 16, which was after hours, displayed a handgun and demanded money. He fled on foot. The suspect was wearing […]
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By Claudia Buck, Sacramento Bee For years, women were advised to get their annual mammogram starting at age 40, an effort to detect breast cancer before it turned deadly. But that guideline became contentious with the medical community divided on what age – and how often – women should get their breast checks done. Some […]
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By Craig Whitlock, Washington Post Federal regulators said Monday that they will require recreational drone users to register their aircraft with the government for the first time in an attempt to track rogue flying robots that are increasingly posing a threat to aviation safety. The decision to compel drone owners to register their aircraft represents […]
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By Kathryn Reed A fire Tuesday at South Tahoe Refuse destroyed the cab and possibly more of one of the garbage trucks. “To be isolated to that truck is amazing,” John Marchini, who runs the South Lake Tahoe garbage company, said. The fire was reported about 6:30pm Oct. 20. It had been parked in the […]
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A horse in El Dorado County has West Nile virus. The horse, from the Greenwood area on the West Slope, is expected to recover. Horses can get WNV when they are bitten by a mosquito that has the virus. Horses cannot give the virus to people or other animals. Vaccination for WNV is recommended as a core […]
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