While much of the work on the Kings Beach Commercial Core Improvement Project has stopped for the season, some may continue. Based on weather, there is a chance AT&T this season may complete the last utility relocation at the intersection of highways 28 and 267. With the recent precipitation, crews have been out monitoring the stormwater treatment […]
Read more
By J.D. Morris, Las Vegas Sun Monitoring casino floors for potential money-laundering is a full-time job for the American gaming industry. Casinos, like banks and other institutions that deal with a lot of money, are required by law to vigilantly look out for financial transactions that may be illegal. And a first of its kind […]
Read more
By Jane Braxton Little, Sacramento Bee SUSANVILLE — A decadelong legal battle over a controversial four-season resort on Dyer Mountain has ended with a settlement agreement reached between Lassen County, Sierra Pacific Industries and three environmental groups. The county and the timber company, which bought the 7,000-acre property in 2013, agreed to pay $519,000 to Sierra […]
Read more
By Ed Pearce, KOLO-TV INCLINE VILLAGE — Twenty years ago, a retired couple was murdered in their Incline Village home. The crime remains unsolved, one of Washoe County’s “cold cases.” But it and others like it are getting new attention. In a small storage room in the Washoe County Sheriff’s Office are shelves containing the […]
Read more
By Peter Hecht, Sacramento Bee The tense public hearing was three hours in Tuesday when a friend pushed Joyce Hall in her walker to address the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors. The frail, 100-pound woman rose, grasped the lectern with both hands and began to cry. “You’re going to kill us,” said Hall, 57, […]
Read more
By Joanna Lin, Center for Investigative Reporting California taxpayers spend about $40 billion a year to pay their fire chiefs, mayors, tree trimmers and thousands of other city and county employees. Some – including harbor pilots in Los Angeles – make more than $300,000 a year. Others receive as little as $190, the payout for […]
Read more
By Kathryn Reed The woman who is acting chief administrative officer for El Dorado County is being sued by a former employee who worked for her when she was CAO in Alpine County. Robert Levy, former undersheriff of Alpine County, in the 19-page lawsuit alleges Pam Knorr along with three supervisors at the time and […]
Read more
By Marlisse Silver Sweeney, Columbia Journalism Review Freedom from surveillance is shaping up to be a major human rights issue in the post-Snowden era. The UN human rights committee is calling for a review of how member states collect residents’ data, and a Pew study last month found that most Americans are concerned with government […]
Read more
And El Dorado County man pleaded guilty Dec. 4 to receipt and distribution of child pornography. According to court documents, 63-year-old Nicholas Robert Bowen of Grizzly Flats took a woman to a Davis park and had her expose herself to 10- and 12-year-old boys while Bowen filmed using a spy camera built into his glasses. They […]
Read more
By Seth Borenstein, AP WASHINGTON — In the more than two decades since world leaders first got together to try to solve global warming, life on Earth has changed, not just the climate. It’s gotten hotter, more polluted with heat-trapping gases, more crowded and just downright wilder. The numbers are stark. Carbon dioxide emissions: up […]
Read more