By Kathryn Reed Federal law dictates what happens to people who might be displaced if the Tahoe Transportation District ever reroutes Highway 50 on the South Shore. But fair market value today is another story. One man at Thursday’s TTD meeting brought up the fact that he would have to fully disclose to a potential […]
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A 16-year-old who fractured his leg had to be airlifted out of the backcountry on Wednesday. The teen was in Ward Canyon below Standford Rock on the Tahoe Rim Trail. A California Highway Patrol helicopter airlifted him out July 24. Then North Taheoe fire crews treated him before transporting him to Tahoe Forest Hospital in […]
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A cyclist on Thursday attempted to rob an El Dorado Savings Bank in South Lake Tahoe. The suspect passed a demand note to a teller at the 3443 Lake Tahoe Blvd. branch and then appeared to change his mind about following through with the 3:30pm robbery, according to officers. No weapon was ever threatened or […]
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A San Francisco socialite who grew up in Gardnerville, graduated from Douglas High School and is estranged from her husband was found dead in Douglas County. Douglas County sheriff’s deputies said Amber Marie Bently, 34, had been dead for several weeks before her body was found last week in her apartment on High School Street […]
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A main water line of South Tahoe Public Utility District ruptured Thursday about 1:40pm. Crews have been doing work this week on Tahoe Keys Boulevard. The break is between Montana and Oregon on Tahoe Keys Boulevard. There had been a leak on one of the steel lines. After a while it’s common for them to […]
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By Kathryn Reed A mother and daughter riding personal watercraft on Lake Tahoe collided Wednesday resulting in one death. Dawn Finn, 52, of Westwood, N.J., died upon impact July 24, according to officials. The two women were on individual rented personal watercraft at 1:50pm about 200 hundred yards from Incline Beach when the accident occurred. […]
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A traffic stop in Trinity County ended with $50,000 in a South Lake Tahoe man’s vehicle being confiscated. The California Highway Patrol stopped Isaac James Walker, 33, on July 20 about 11:50pm on Highway 299 west of Helena. A Trinity County sheriff’s K9 unit searched the vehicle, alerting officers to something being in the quarter […]
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A South Lake Tahoe woman who was holed up in a neighbor’s apartment where she had access to a rifle and ammunition was eventually arrested this morning without anyone but her boyfriend being hurt. Kimberly Ann Leard, 33, was arrested July 25 on felony charges of domestic violence and a misdemeanor charge of resisting, delaying […]
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A 325-pound black bear that was captured by the Nevada Department of Wildlife in Verdi was released this morning in the Gold Ranch area. The 6-year-old male was captured Tuesday in a culvert trap set near a residence where it was doing some damage to property. “This bear has never been in trouble before, making […]
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By Robin Wilkey, Huffington Post SAN FRANCISCO — Marijuana may not be fully legal in California, but the state’s Democratic Party has made its position clear. In a resolution released on Sunday, the California Democratic Party requested that President Obama end the federal crackdown against states with marijuana laws on the books: “The California Democratic […]
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