By Associated Press Two people are dead after a small plane crashed not far from an airport in the Sierra Nevada foothills. Amador County Undersheriff James Wegner told the Sacramento Bee that a call was received shortly after noon Dec. 24 about a plane crash near Sutter Creek. Deputies and fire crews found a single-engine plane […]
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By Nathan Rott, NPR California residents who are living without documentation soon will be eligible to apply for driver’s licenses, thanks to a new law that takes effect in the new year. The state’s Department of Motor Vehicles is expecting 1.6 million immigrants to apply in the first few years, and law enforcement, community groups […]
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By KPIX-TV California communities suffering from extreme drought could soon get help from an unlikely source — unmanned aerial vehicles, a.k.a. drones. For years, ground-based machines have injected tiny silver iodide particles into passing storm clouds — a process called cloud seeding. The process can squeeze about 10% more precipitation during a storm. Meteorologist Jeff […]
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An armed robber made off with an undisclosed sum of money from a KFC in South Lake Tahoe on Monday night, while Mellow Fellow restaurant in Truckee was robbed Dec. 20. The man entered through the back door of KFC about 11:30pm Dec. 22 after the restaurant in the Ski Run Center had closed. Employees were […]
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By Ben van der Meer, Sacramento Business Journal Residents of an enclave north of Lake Tahoe are getting their street back, and cutting off a cut-through to a neighboring community in the process. Early next year, Placer County staff will have a presentation on making two streets: Mill Site Road and Cross Cut Road, private and […]
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By Amber Phillips, Las Vegas Sun To understand the pinnacle of Sen. Harry Reid’s career, let’s go back nine years, to Election Day 2006. Senate Democrats were on the verge of taking control of the Senate for the first time since 2001. Reid, their leader, watched election results anxiously with close aides and fellow senators […]
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Fallen Leaf Lake will be better equipped next year to deal with any fires that may occur in this South Shore enclave. A federal grant for $372,000 will allow the fire department to buy a pumper engine to replace an old engine. It will be in service in 2015. With $250,000 from El Dorado County […]
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By Denny Walsh, Sacramento Bee A state appellate court in Sacramento has ruled that “concentrated cannabis” qualifies as marijuana for purposes of medical use. A unanimous three-justice panel of the 3rd District Court of Appeal disagreed this week with an earlier ruling by El Dorado Superior Court Judge James R. Wagoner and reversed the judge’s […]
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By Associated Press NEW YORK — Caesars Entertainment, parent company of Harrah’s Lake Tahoe and Harveys at Stateline, will buy an affiliate as it tries to smooth the reorganization of a struggling division and balance its debt load. The Las Vegas company will take Caesar’s Acquisition in an all-stock deal, giving its shareholders an approximately […]
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By Ray Hagar, Reno Gazette-Journal Even though the growing and selling of medical marijuana was approved by the 2013 Legislature, the cannabis plant will remain a point of contention and debate at the 2015 Nevada Legislature, lawmakers said. “I personally think it will (be a big issue),” said state Sen Richard “Tick” Segerblom, D-Las Vegas. […]
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