Updated 9:40pm: The Kyburz wildland fire has jumped across the American River heading east and prompted mandatory evacuations from Whitehall to Sand Flat Campground, according to U.S. Forest Service reports. The federal agency has beefed up its personnel working the fire to 350. The blaze that started this afternoon shortly before 2pm is 5 percent […]
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Remains found near Spooner Summit in June 2014 have been identified as Ryan Wallace Osburn, 32, of Reno. The investigation by Douglas County sheriff’s investigators concluded Osburn died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. The remains were found in King Canyon. Investigators also recovered personal property, a handgun, projectile and shell. Prior to residing […]
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By Kathryn Reed Drought is proving to be a good thing for the waters of Lake Tahoe, at least when it comes to clarity. With less sediment reaching the lake mostly because the spring runoff was dismal, lake clarity is the best it has been in a decade. The Secchi disk – which resembles a […]
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A 19-year-old Truckee resident died in a single-vehicle accident on July 21. Giovanni Arellano was believed to be on his way home from work when the accident occurred at about 11:30pm. Truckee police officers said Arellano’s vehicle left the road and hit a large tree. This was in the area of Jeffery Pine Road and Alpine Fir […]
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The man who may be responsible for committing five recent armed pharmacy robberies struck for the sixth time in Kings Beach on July 16. This is the same pharmacy that was robbed two months ago. On May 16, the suspect robbed the Rite-Aid in Kings Beach while wearing a surgical mask. On July 16, his […]
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A 93-year-old Zephyr Cove man died Monday in a single-vehicle accident. The driver, whose name has not been released pending notification of next of kin, was going west on Kingsbury Grade near Katherine Drive on July 20 about 2:44pm when his pickup drifted off the road onto dirt and struck a tree. He was transported […]
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By Stefan Nicola, BloombergBusiness Earth warmed to a record in the first half of the year, putting new pressure on nations from the U.S. to China to try to curb climate change at a United Nations summit in Paris this December. Global land and sea surface temperatures from January through June were 1.53 degrees Fahrenheit […]
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Four remote mountain peaks in central and northeastern Nevada are home to a real-time camera fire-detection system. A Bureau of Land Management Nevada grant awarded to the UNR to develop, install, and maintain a remote camera system, is in the initial phase of a five-year planned comprehensive network to cover vast areas of the state […]
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By Kathryn Reed After hours of talk Tuesday by South Lake Tahoe staff and electeds, plus comments from 22 members of the public, the politicians went forward with a new vacation home rental ordinance. Prior to that, during the temporary arts and crafts show discussion, Councilman Tom Davis said it was important to enforce the rules […]
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By Jennifer Calfas, USA Today A higher percentage of children live in poverty now than did during the Great Recession, according to anew report from the Annie E. Casey Foundation released Tuesday. About 22 percent of children in the U.S. lived below the poverty line in 2013, compared with 18 percent in 2008, the foundation’s 2015 […]
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