By Kathryn Reed One week after Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board found 12 violations at Tahoe Keys Marina the infractions have not been corrected. “That is significant,” Eric Taxer, water resource control engineer, told Lake Tahoe News of the ongoing problems. Failing to maintain a pump so boaters can get rid of their sewage […]
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Updated July 30 7:24am: Late dinners were interrupted at Denny’s in South Lake Tahoe on Tuesday night. An electrical problem caused the restaurant to shut its doors and evacuate diners just after 9pm July 29. The power was turned off. “An electrical short occurred last night in a breaker panel. The fire department shut it […]
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A half-acre fire started from lightning this Tuesday afternoon in Coldstream Canyon near the Sierra Crest. Smoke jumpers are currently on scene of the fire. More firefighting resources are responding. Currently there is no threat to the Truckee area. There is also another fire north of Truckee in the Sierraville area that is putting up […]
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By Kathryn Reed Beginning Sept. 2, El Dorado County will have a new county counsel. Ed Knapp is retiring effective Aug. 29. Taking his place is Robyn Drivon. Per state law, county counsels serve four-year terms. “There was about a year and a half left in Lou (Green’s) term when he retired, so the board […]
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By AP ANCHORAGE — The parents of a 26-year-old Truckee snowboarder who died after an Alaska avalanche have filed a federal lawsuit against a heli-skiing company, alleging it failed to assess the danger in the area. Nickolay Dobov died after the March 2012 Haines-area avalanche hit a group of skiers. Dodov was flown to Seattle […]
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By Jeanne Sahadi, CNN Money NEW YORK — Americans have a debt problem. An estimated 1 in 3 adults with a credit history — or 77 million people — are so far behind on some of their debt payments that their account has been put “in collections.” That’s a key finding from an Urban Institute […]
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By Dan Whitcomb, Reuters A private drone trying to film a wildfire that has charred nearly six square miles in Northern California briefly disrupted firefighting efforts, although workers had gained the upper hand against the blaze, officials said on Monday. Fire officials spotted the drone over the Sand Fire on Sunday and immediately called police […]
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By Peter Hecht, Sacramento Bee Firefighters gained the upper hand Monday on a nearly 4,000-acre wildfire in El Dorado and Amador counties, allowing a procession of displaced homeowners to return as most evacuation orders were lifted on the fire’s fourth day. People returning to the communities of Fair Play, Mount Aukum and Somerset in southern […]
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By Kathryn Reed For the first time in more than 80 years, an 8-acre parcel in Meyers is about to look a lot more like it did before white people took over the Lake Tahoe Basin. At the California Tahoe Conservancy board meeting this month, $650,000 was allocated to the restoration of the former Tahoe […]
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A 42-year-old man from Southern California drowned today in Incline Village. The name of the man from Carson has not been released pending notification of family. He was about 50 yards from shore when he started struggling to stay afloat, Washoe County sheriff’s Sgt. John Hamilton said. “Someone from the beach swam out and got […]
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