By Brad Branan, Sacramento Bee El Dorado County Supervisor Ray Nutting testified Tuesday that his failure to report state income on economic disclosure reports was an honest mistake and that he never tried to mislead anyone. The four-term county supervisor appeared by turns confused and emotional as he spent almost all day on the witness […]
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By Tim Reid, Reuters In the middle of one of the worst droughts in California’s history, no one knows exactly how many agencies supply the state with water. While state regulators supervise three companies that provide gas and electricity for most of California, drinking water is delivered through a vast network of agencies which collectively […]
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By Cathy Locke, Sacramento Bee A car belonging to a missing Amador County man has been found stuck in a creek bed in Nevada. The Washoe County Sheriff’s Office has activated its search and rescue team in an effort to locate 79-year-old Warren Alford Hagyard of Pioneer, who has been missing since April 21. The […]
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By Kathryn Reed Elevated levels of fecal coliform bacteria were found in the water where sewage flowed from the Fresh Ketch restaurant into Lake Tahoe for at least a 24-hour period that ended Saturday night. Lahontan Regional Water Control Board today released results from water samples taken May 5. The highest measurement was 54 colony […]
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By Neela Banerjee and Kathleen Hennessey, Los Angeles Times The warming of Earth, with human consumption of fossil fuels as the main cause, will have severe consequences for every region of the United States, according to the Third National Climate Assessment released Tuesday morning by the Obama administration. Mandated by Congress and published every four […]
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By Kathryn Reed Contracts with seven of the eight bargaining units within Douglas County School District should be complete after today’s special meeting. The board is meeting at 4:30pm May 6 in Minden to approve a two-year contract with the Douglas County Support Staff Organization. It calls for a 3 percent raise retroactive to July […]
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By Christi Turner, High Country News Severe drought plagues California, the Colorado River is perilously low, and yet billions of gallons of water are being “virtually exported” via one of the West’s thirstiest crops: alfalfa. Robert Glennon, author of “Unquenchable: America’s Water Crisis and What to Do About It”, estimates about 50 billion gallons of […]
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A chimney fire on Highlands Drive on the South Shore was quickly doused by Lake Valley firefighters on Monday afternoon. The call came in at 4:19pm from a person driving by who saw smoke. One person was at home. There were no injuries. An ember landed on the shake roof and did some damage to […]
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By Kathryn Reed Health, water and environmental officials were at the Tahoe Keys Marina today inspecting repairs to the sewage line that failed over the weekend, allowing waste to flow into Lake Tahoe. Several samples of the water were taken to test for bacteria. Lahontan Regional Water Control Board expects to have those results on […]
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Updated May 5 1:25pm: The driver of the vehicle that plunged down an embankment has been identified as Jeffrey Alan Davis, 55, of Zephyr Cove. The cause of death is blunt force trauma due to a motor vehicle incident. The incident is still under investigation as to what caused the vehicle to travel through the […]
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