By Len Ramirez, KPIX While the calendar says February, CalFire is getting an early start on making sure it has enough staff to battle this year’s wildfires. One by one, applicants walked in to CalFire headquarters in Morgan Hill for their job interviews wearing business suits. What they really want to wear are fire coats, […]
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South Lake Tahoe is getting back into the fire inspection business. In 2011, the fire marshal position was eliminated. For a time Lake Valley Fire Protection District took on the responsibilities, but fire codes in the jurisdictions were not the same at the time so that was not a good fit. “Inspections have not occurred […]
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By Matthias Gafni, Bay Area News Group It was 1964. Late at night. The Northern California man had lost his hunting buddies in the woods near Lake Tahoe and climbed a tree to sleep. Awakened by a glowing object landing on a nearby ridge, the man was soon fighting for his life against two neckless […]
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By Samantha Michaels, Mother Jones In a blow to the controversial practice of gay conversion therapy, a New Jersey judge has ruled that therapists who claim that homosexuality is a curable mental disorder are committing consumer fraud. The ruling, issued on Tuesday by Superior Court Judge Peter F. Bariso Jr., is part of an ongoing […]
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By Kathryn Reed Vacation rental owners are likely going to have to pay more money to get a permit in South Lake Tahoe as well as contend with other new regulations. The South Lake Tahoe City Council on Feb. 17 spent the bulk of the meeting talking about how to revise the 2003 ordinance that […]
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Jeff Marsolais has lost the “deputy” in his title. He is now officially forest supervisor for Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit. He takes over for Nancy Gibson who retired in January. Marsolais has been named deputy forest supervisor in February 2011. Prior to that he was acting supervisor for LTBMU for 120 days starting in December 2010. […]
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By Kathryn Reed When Caltrans closed Highway 50 over Echo Summit in 2011 to replace the dilapidated rock wall that was put in just after World War II, the powers that be came unglued. There were countless meetings, a media blitz let people know the South Shore was still in business and that the best […]
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The pedestrian killed Feb. 13 has been identified as Craig Davis. The 44-year-year South Lake Tahoe resident was in a crosswalk Friday about 6:30pm at Larch Avenue and Ski Run Boulevard in South Lake Tahoe when he was struck and killed by a vehicle. Alcohol was not a factor in the accident, according to police officers. […]
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By Kyle Roerink, Las Vegas Sun CARSON CITY — Many of the state’s elected officials have professional relationships that extend outside the Legislature, creating a web that reveals the close-knit nature of Nevada politics. Lt. Gov. Mark Hutchison, for instance, represented Sen. Mark Lipparelli in front of the state’s ethics commission in 2013. Lipparelli, a […]
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Money has been secured for IVGID to complete the final phase of the Third Creek and Incline Creeks Restoration Project. The Incline Village General Improvement District board on Feb. 13 unanimously approved a $267,250 funding agreement between IVGID and Nevada via the Nevada Department of State Lands that provides the 25 percent local match to […]
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