By Ari Melber, MSNBC While the public debate over American policing has been roiling for months, a quieter debate has been playing out at the Supreme Court, which is now refining some of the rules that govern police conduct across the country. During the court’s current term, which concludes at the end of June, the […]
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Some residents in the Sierra Tract neighborhood of South Lake Tahoe are currently experiencing a power outage. Liberty Utility expects to correct the problem by noon June 18. — Lake Tahoe News staff report
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By Kathryn Reed The El Dorado County Grand Jury raked Auditor-Controller Joe Harn and Supervisor Ron Mikulaco over the coals in separate reports that were released this week. Neither of the elected officials believes there is much truth to the reports, with Mikulaco saying it is politically motivated. Harn said it’s hard to defend accusations […]
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By Luke Runyun, NPR The marijuana industry has a pesticide problem. Many commercial cannabis growers use chemicals to control bugs and mold. But the plant’s legal status is unresolved. The grow room at Medical MJ Supply in Fort Collins, Colo., has all the trappings of a modern marijuana cultivation facility: glowing yellow lights, plastic irrigation […]
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Updated June 17 11:10pm: Jim Morris, owner of Lake Tahoe Accommodations, is suing the city of South Lake Tahoe in regards to the existing vacation home rental ordinance. “We are fairly sure they violated the law in how they passed the ordinance,” Morris told Lake Tahoe News. “And they didn’t justify the money and how […]
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By Kathryn Reed With two-thirds of the vacation rentals in South Lake Tahoe being in residential neighborhoods, it is big business. It also means non-traditional neighborhoods are being created. Those are the overriding issues when it comes to vacation home rentals – economics vs. locals not wanting residences used as a business. Since the City […]
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By Lane Anderson, Deseret News As baby boomers roll toward retirement, half of them don’t have retirement savings, according to a new report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office. Fifty-two percent of households 55 and older haven’t saved a dollar for retirement, according to the study, although half of those do have a pension. Among the […]
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A South Lake Tahoe woman is going to prison for 12 years for the deaths of a Dixon couple. Megan Hickel, 28, was sentenced June 15 in El Dorado County Superior Court for two counts of gross vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated. After watching fireworks on the South Shore, Richard and Kelly Schwab were returning home […]
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Updated June 16, 4:30pm: A man with a history of drug arrests was the victim of Monday’s shooting in South Lake Tahoe. A single bullet fired by a South Lake Tahoe police officer in the early morning hours of June 15 killed Kris Jackson, 22, of Sacramento. Jackson was trying to flee out of a […]
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A Sunday afternoon fire that burned a small swath of land between Lake Tahoe Community College and the U.S. Forest Service is still under investigation, though it is believed to be human caused. A large plume of smoke could be seen June 14 coming from the meadow area behind those entities to make people believe […]
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