By Melissa Breyer, Mother Nature Network Honeybees have been having a rough go of it lately; between tragic insecticide mishaps, truck crashes and especially colony collapse disorder, the poor things can’t get a break. And now to add to their troubles, honeybees in California are suffering from the drought, which is leaving them with very […]
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By Tim Grant, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette While most high school students still plan to go the traditional route of attending four-year colleges and universities when they consider educational options after graduation, a significant number say they are open to the idea of attending community colleges and technical schools The Washington, D.C.-based College Savings Foundation’s fifth annual […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe officials believe the best way to get people to renovate their properties is to dangle a carrot in front of them. For those with property in the Tahoe Valley Area Plan, the carrots are coverage and commercial floor area. At a meeting Thursday night about the plan, where only […]
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Three people were arrested this month in a gang sweep of the South Shore. Probation searches were conducted on six residences in the South Lake Tahoe area on June 11. During these searches evidence of gang affiliation was found. Two additional gang member validations were documented, according to law enforcement. One person was arrested on […]
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Ruth Anne Scudder, 28, has not been seen by her family since June 4. The South Lake Tahoe woman is considered a voluntarily missing adult. She lives with family in town. She has a mild mental handicap, which causes the police to consider her at risk. Scudder does not drive and, although she has a […]
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By Amber Phillips, Las Vegas Sun Could the commercial trucks we share our highways with be getting bigger? Congress is mulling an idea to allow bigger and heavier semitrailers on American roads. There’s nothing set in stone yet, but the idea floating around Capitol Hill has transportation safety and law enforcement advocates worried enough to […]
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By Caitlin Owens, Los Angeles Times California’s drought conditions have worsened over the past week with the percentage of the state suffering from the highest category increasing, the National Weather Service said Thursday. “Exceptional” drought conditions have spread in Central California since a week ago, weather officials said. Areas in Northern California have also moved […]
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A Placerville woman working as a caretaker at an Auburn residential recovery center was arrested June 18 for allegedly using a resident’s bank card to make purchases at local stores. Amanda Marie Sinnott, 29, was an employee at Westview Healthcare. A 69-year-old man discovered his bank card missing and about $1,300 had been charged at […]
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By Kathryn Reed A year after the El Dorado County Grand Jury was disbanded mid-session, the next group investigated 20 issues. The county is dysfunctional in many aspects was the conclusion. The final report was released Thursday. The report says, “Early in its term, the grand jury began to see a thread of dysfunction running […]
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By Matt Weiser, Sacramento Bee As California slips into summer amid the worst drought in a generation, state residents, as a whole, have done relatively little to cut their water use, falling well short of the 20 percent target set in Gov. Jerry Brown’s emergency drought declaration in January. Between January and May of this […]
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