El Dorado County sheriff’s deputies have been making a concerted effort to rid neighborhoods of illegal marijuana grows. In the last four months deputies have closed down a dozen commercial cultivation operations in the Lake Tahoe Basin. They were primarily housed in rental houses. Complaints from neighbors is how most of them were located. “These […]
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By Peter Hecht, Sacramento Bee A state prosecutor today opened the trial of El Dorado County Supervisor Ray Nutting by blasting him as a dishonest figure with “trouble following laws” routinely honored by other public officials. Nutting faces allegations that he improperly hid state income for brush clearing on his family ranch, and Deputy Attorney […]
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Publisher’s note: Lake Tahoe News asked the six El Dorado County supervisor candidates a series of questions. All are the same except for one that is specific to each candidate. This is the final installment. Name: Angela Swanson Age: 53 Occupation: City councilwoman, school facilities planning consultant, and grant writer Education: B.A. political science, University […]
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By Lake Tahoe News staff It’s not just Kingsbury Grade that will be torn up this year. Caltrans will be working on six water-quality improvement projects on the California side of the Lake Tahoe Basin. Plus, work in the center of South Lake Tahoe will tie up traffic now that the Harrison Avenue project has […]
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By Kathryn Reed Lake Tahoe Community College needs to find ways to make money. Offering four-year degrees is one way to do so. The University of California and California State University systems need to find ways to accommodate more students. Allowing community colleges to offer four-year degrees would do that. Today the state is not […]
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By Chris Megerian, Los Angeles Times SACRAMENTO — Soon after Jerry Brown was elected governor in 2010, he invited the state’s top budget official, Ana Matosantos, to lunch at his office. He had just two months to prepare his first plan for tackling California’s $26 billion deficit. He asked his assistant to fetch the budget […]
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By Andy Furillo, Sacramento Bee The parents of a 13-year-old girl with a peanut allergy who went into shock and died after eating a night-time snack at Camp Sacramento have filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the city. Louis Giorgi and his wife, Joanne, charged in the suit, filed Friday in Sacramento Superior Court, that […]
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By Alexei Koseff, Sacramento Bee When Marcela Sosa opened her email last month and saw the “congratulations” message from the University of California, Berkeley, she was so shocked that she jumped out of her chair. “I didn’t even think I was going to get in,” the St. Francis High School senior said. “I had always […]
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By Linda Poon, NPR What doesn’t kill us only makes us stronger, right? Well, not when it comes to bullying. Some may still consider bullying a harmless part of growing up, but mounting evidence suggests that the adverse effects of being bullied aren’t something kids can just shake off. The psychological and physical tolls, like […]
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By Rick Montanez, KFSN-TV The FBI is on a manhunt for a suspected killer who could be hiding in the Sierra Nevada or the Central Valley’s backyard. A $100,000 reward is out for a man the FBI says bludgeoned his entire family — then burned their bodies 38 years ago. The FBI released a bust, […]
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