Five houses and seven out buildings have been consumed by the fast moving Sand Fire that is burning in the wine region of El Dorado and Amador counties. Smoke from the 4,000-acre blaze is infiltrating the Truckee area, and the smell of smoke is strong through the American River canyon into Placerville from Lake Tahoe. […]
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By Peter Hecht, Sacramento Bee At the Cielo Estate winery in Shingle Springs, political upheaval in El Dorado County seemed to drift away momentarily Wednesday evening as a gentle breeze faintly ruffled leaves of heritage oaks. Inside a reception room, as guests sipped Sierra foothills Pinot Grigio, five of the six special election candidates for […]
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By Veronica Rocha, Los Angeles Times Most of California’s major reservoirs are now less than half-full — or at what officials call a “seriously low” level — but that’s still nowhere near the historic lows set in 1977, the state’s driest year on record. The latest report released Wednesday by the California Department of Water […]
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Engine trouble forced a small plane to try to land on Pyramid Highway on Saturday morning. It struck a moving truck. The two occupants of the truck were not injured. The two people in the plane sustained cuts from broken glass, according to the Nevada Highway Patrol Part of the highway was closed after the […]
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Lake Tahoe Vacation Resort in South Lake Tahoe admitted it dumped thousands of gallons of pool water inappropriately. The hotel reported the month-old incident to Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board. “Nothing got to the lake. [It] entered a city storm drain and then to the ground. They have since developed a pool draining plan […]
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By Kathryn Reed Tahoe Keys Marina staff illegally removed vegetation to create a dirt parking lot close to the water. “It’s fairly significant. Eleven thousand square feet is the size of an entire lot,” Julie Regan, spokeswoman for the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, told Lake Tahoe News. “It’s a serious matter and we will want […]
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By Amber Phillips, Las Vegas Sun WASHINGTON — With one week to go before a five-week summer break, Nevada’s lawmakers are doing what they can do to push through agendas they’ve been working on all year. Rep. Mark Amodei claimed one of the delegation’s first victories of the week when the House of Representatives passed […]
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By Kathryn Reed Investigators are still trying to determine the cause of the fire that has shuttered the Deerfield Lodge indefinitely and displaced three dozen visitors. South Lake Tahoe Fire Chief Jeff Meston told Lake Tahoe News, “We know it started at the end of the hotel itself.” He said nothing has been found yet […]
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El Dorado Savings Bank reported second quarter profits of $2,782,107, which represents a 28 percent increase compared to the Second Quarter of 2013. Earnings for the first six months of 2014 totaled $5,901,573, compared to $3,836,217 in 2013. “The higher rates on new loans and investments improved the bank’s profit margin while the strong performance […]
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By Katharine Mieszkowski, Center of Investigative Reporting Gov. Jerry Brown has asked restaurants not to serve water unless diners ask for it. He’s letting lawns at the state Capitol turn brown. Farmers in the Central Valley are getting just a trickle of the water they usually do. Conspicuous water wasters – commercial and residential – […]
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