By Barbara Barte Osborn, Sacramento Bee TRUCKEE — A Truckee juvenile was arrested Wednesday after allegedly confessing to more than a dozen mail thefts and four burglaries the day before. On Tuesday, the Truckee Police Department received more than a dozen reports in the Glenshire subdivision related to mail tampering. Additionally, two businesses and two […]
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By Meagan Clark, International Business Times U.S. infrastructure — roads, bridges, rail, drinking water, waste water, solid waste and more—is close to flunking according to a recent assessment from the American Society of Civil Engineers. Once every four years, America’s civil engineers assess the nation’s infrastructure with an A to F report card. The engineers […]
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The bear-people issue in Incline Village has gotten so bad that a couple filed a report with Washoe County sheriff’s investigators saying they have received death threats because they reported a problem bear to state officials. According to the Reno Gazette-Journal, Nevada Department of Wildlife trapped a 263-pound male black bear outside Richard and Adrienne […]
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By Kathryn Reed It’s possible South Tahoe Public Utility District customers could be paying $78.60 more a year for water and sewer service starting July 1. This breaks down to another $4.40 per month for water over 10 years and $2.15 a month for sewer in the same time period. It’s called the “optimum” plan […]
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By Jed Boal, Deseret News SALT LAKE CITY — “Click It or Ticket.” That’s the highway patrol campaign in many states that urges everyone to wear their seat belts or face a fine. But a study by California’s Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training estimates that roughly half of law enforcement officers don’t wear […]
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By Laurel Rosenhall, Sacramento Bee A ballot measure submitted by a political consultant for education advocate Michelle Rhee seeks to remove seniority as a factor when California school districts lay off teachers, requiring instead that decisions be based on performance and student test scores. That approach has been at the core of Rhee’s advocacy efforts […]
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By Anahad O’Connor, New York Times A federal report shows that the percentage of American high school students who smoke marijuana is slowly rising, while the use of alcohol and almost every other drug is falling. The report raises concerns that the relaxation of restrictions on marijuana, which can now be sold legally in 20 […]
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By Phillip Reese and Cynthia Hubert, Sacramento Bee Gov. Brian Sandoval on Monday announced the creation of a special council to review Nevada’s embattled mental health care system and offer recommendations for improvements. The announcement followed a Sacramento Bee investigative report published Sunday that found numerous patients discharged from Rawson-Neal Psychiatric Hospital in Las Vegas […]
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A six-week investigation into several graffiti cases throughout Truckee ended with the arrest of nine juveniles. Most of the graffiti was considered to be tagging, with monikers related to the suspects, police said. Additional suspects are being evaluated, according to Truckee police officers. Police warn people that i t is a crime to supply a […]
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By Cally Carswell, High Country News As we reported in October, the first investigation of Arizona’s Yarnell Hill Fire, in which 19 hotshots were killed this summer, drew extremely cautious conclusions. No “direct causes” of the accident were identified, no one was blamed. Policies and protocols, the report said, were not violated. It was almost […]
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