By Matt Weiser, Sacramento Bee The California Department of Water Resources is planning to draft an emergency drought declaration for Gov. Jerry Brown’s consideration as dry winter conditions continue. DWR Director Mark Cowin told the California Board of Food and Agriculture at a meeting Tuesday that his agency is weighing whether to present the governor […]
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By Kathryn Reed El Dorado County Board of Supervisors on a 3-0 vote Tuesday repealed the sex offender ordinance that was created with Phillip Garrido in mind. Garrido and his wife, Nancy, were sentenced in 2011 to spend the rest of their lives behind bars for the 1991 kidnapping of then 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard […]
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A $1,000 reward is being offered by Washoe County Secret Witness for information leading to the arrest and prosecution of the person or people responsible for a series of residential burglaries in Incline Village. The Incline burglaries started in November and have occurred other places around the lake. The suspects have used similar methods in […]
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By Kieran Nicholson, Ryan Parker and Jason Blevins, Denver Post The grandson of Vail’s founder was killed in an avalanche while skiing near the resort Tuesday. Tony Seibert, 24, the grandson of Peter Seibert, was killed and three others were injured in the out-of-bounds avalanche. Vail Resorts declined to comment on the matter and directed […]
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By Kathryn Reed While there have been no deaths this season in the Lake Tahoe Basin from the flu, that is not the same case for bordering counties. A woman in her 30s and a man in his 50s died last weekend in Sacramento County from the H1N1 flu strain. This is the same strain […]
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By Sharon Bernstein, Reuters SACRAMENTO — A top California lawmaker on Tuesday is expected to unveil a proposal to fund free public preschool for all children in the most populous state. The plan by Senate Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, to offer a pre-kindergarten program to 4-year-olds comes as he and other Democratic legislators try […]
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By George Johnson, New York Times Every New Year when the government publishes its Report to the Nation on the Status of Cancer, it is followed by a familiar lament. We are losing the war against cancer. Half a century ago, the story goes, a person was far more likely to die from heart disease. […]
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By Kathryn Reed Fireworks at Lake Tahoe may come down to tourism vs. the environment. There is no question the twice annual fireworks show shot from barges on Lake Tahoe on the South Shore are a crowd pleaser on July 4 and Labor Day weekend. But the piles of debris collected afterward and the perchlorate […]
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By Nick Leiber, Bloomberg Actor Woody Harrelson is known for his roles in such films as “White Men Can’t Jump,” “Natural Born Killers” and “The People vs. Larry Flynt.” He’s also an environmentalist who in 1998 co-founded Prairie Paper Ventures to make paper from crop waste instead of trees. The idea is to save forests […]
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El Dorado County’s bomb squad today detonated an explosive device that was found outside the Probation Department in Shingle Springs. The suspicious device was found Monday at 7am. A section of pipe approximately 8 inches by 1.5 inches was capped on both ends, according to officials. A makeshift fuse appeared to be attached to the […]
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