A man renting property owned by the Nutting Family Trust has been arrested on charges of marijuana cultivation. Former El Dorado County Supervisor Ray Nutting is a trustee. Justen David Schultz, 44, is accused of growing pot in 10 foot by 30 foot, and 20 foot by 40 foot plots. There are also two greenhouses […]
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The July 13 accident where a bear was killed on Highway 50 near Zephyr Cove did not involve a local teenager. Lake Tahoe News apologizes for publishing wrong information. “Our dispatch center cross referenced another person and vehicle with the same accident number. We have cleared up the issue,” Nevada Highway Patrol Trooper Dave Gibson […]
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By Kathryn Reed By the time the Bijou erosion control project is completed this year, South Lake Tahoe will have put in an $11 million investment to curtail fine sediment from reaching Lake Tahoe. This section of town is responsible for about one-third of the sediment in the city limits that reaches the lake. “It’s […]
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By Amber Phillips, Las Vegas Sun WASHINGTON — Sen. Dean Heller has invested months lobbying his colleagues to extend benefits for unemployed Americans. In a rare feat of bipartisanship, Republicans and Democrats from Nevada’s six-person delegation have backed Heller’s effort to renew benefits for the long-term unemployed after Congress let the program expire in December. […]
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By Seth Nidever, Hanford Sentinel HANFORD – The struggle to find additional irrigation water for Kings County’s parched Westside was on full display Monday as the comment period closed on a proposed 35,000 acre-feet water transfer from Placer County Water Agency to thirsty Westlands Water District, 80,000 acres of which are in Kings County. The […]
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By Jennifer Chaussee, Reuters A long-shot effort to break California into six separate states got a boost on Monday, when the billionaire venture capitalist behind the proposal said he had gathered enough signatures to place it on the ballot in two years. Timothy Draper, a founder of a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm that has […]
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By Whip Villarreal, Las Vegas Review-Journal CARSON CITY — Much of urban Nevada is quickly moving forward to license medical marijuana dispensaries, but patients in some rural areas might find it difficult to obtain the drug because local governments are opting out. Another barrier to getting the drug is the apparent lack of interest by […]
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By Steven Greenhouse and Stephanie Strom, New York Times CONCORD, N.H. — Ben Nawn, a sophomore at the University of New Hampshire, says his friends who work at McDonald’s are envious of what he earns working for the Boloco burrito restaurant here. While they make $7.25 an hour, the federal minimum wage, Nawn receives $9 […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe is about to own a highly valuable piece of property in the city – assuming the City Council agrees to buy it. On the July 15 council meeting the 1½ acres on the corner of Ski Run Boulevard and Highway 50 is on the agenda. It had been acquired […]
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A boat pulling a skier on Donner Lake ran over the tow-line of a Jet Ski, ejecting the children who were riding on the inner tube behind the personal watercraft. The 7- and 8-year-old suffered minor injuries July 13. One youth was flown to Renown Medical Center in Reno by Careflight as a precaution based […]
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