By Kathryn Reed A brainstorming session of more than 70 business owners and employees on Tuesday uncovered a wealth of topics designed to make the South Shore more successful. At the annual Lake Tahoe South Shore Chamber of Commerce breakfast Jan. 28 much of the focus was on tapping into what the people in the […]
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Flames were still shooting into the night sky Wednesday after a house erupted in flames in the early evening. Fire Chief Jeff Meston told Lake Tahoe News it is a difficult fire to fight. It’s a modified A-frame that was being remodeled. He expected crews would be out there quite a while. All city resources […]
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By Kathryn Reed Julie Smith-Tunnell is accused of stealing her second vehicle in two months. The most recent time ended with the vehicle going into the front of Grace Hall at St. Theresa’s Catholic Church in South Lake Tahoe. “We found her lying down behind a rock about 30 feet from the collision,” police Lt. […]
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By Mason Levinson, Bloomberg Sochi may attract the fewest American visitors to a Winter Olympics in 20 years amid terrorism concerns, a lack of luxury hotel rooms and difficulties procuring visas, according to U.S. tour operators. Russia’s plan to spend $50 billion on hotels and other infrastructure to convert a small city on the Black […]
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A South Lake Tahoe resident who was just released from prison could be headed back there. Dismas Womack, 47, was arrested early Wednesday morning in the Al Tahoe neighborhood of South Lake Tahoe. The SWAT team arrived in its souped up mine resistant ambush prevention vehicle, which is used in high risk-situations. “We found firearms […]
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By Peter Hecht, Sacramento Bee In 2010, as Colorado lawmakers were creating America’s first state-licensed and regulated medical marijuana industry, fellow police officers at a Colorado Drug Investigators Association conference jeered a state law enforcement official assigned to draft the legislation. Some of the sharpest barbs came from visiting narcotics officers from California. While Colorado […]
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By Kathryn Reed The storm forecast to roll into the Lake Tahoe Basin today is not going to quench the land’s thirst, but it might alter the record books. Going into the week, this has been the second driest January on record for South Lake Tahoe with 0.17 inches of precipitation. However, those records only […]
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David John Magana, a former advertising director for Raley’s, was sentenced Jan. 28 to three years and 11 months in prison and ordered to pay more than $2.9 million in restitution for defrauding the grocery store chain out of more than $3 million. The 47-year-old Newcastle resident pleaded guilty in February 2013 to the charges. […]
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By Mark Glover, Sacramento Bee Placerville-based El Dorado Savings Bank reported a profit of $9.83 million for all of 2013, up 9 percent from $9.02 million in 2012. Fourth quarter 2013 net income totaled $3.68 million, up sharply from $2.8 million in the year-ago period. Total assets as of Dec. 31 were $1.86 billion, up […]
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By KCRA-TV An early-morning apartment complex fire in Placerville that injured two people is being investigated by police. The fire broke out just after 5am Jan. 28 at the complex at 2661 Woodridge Court. Two men were found outside the apartment building with burns when officers arrived at the scene. They were taken to UC […]
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