By Maria Medina, CBS-13 Residents say they’re being forced to clean up the mess more than a week after a fireworks show at Lake Tahoe. For more than a week, Joan Truxler’s filled bag after bag with fireworks debris left over from south Lake Tahoe’s Fourth of July show. The first people to alert her […]
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With the Bison Fire being 100 percent contained, crews are being sent to other fires. Firefighters will be finishing rehabbing and watching for any hot spots that might still be out there. Since the fire started July 4 by lightning, four firefighters have been injured — two sustained twisted knees, one twisted an ankle and […]
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By Ed Komenda, Las Vegas Sun Ultimate Gaming has completed its 30-day field trial for Ultimate Poker, the first ever fully legal online gambling site in the United States. The Nevada Gaming Control Board has recommended approval for the company to offer real money gambling at UltimateGaming.com. Ultimate Gaming, majority owned by Station Casinos, in […]
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By Jeff Barnard, AP GRANTS PASS, Ore. — Shane Krogen has no trouble finding retirees willing to spend a week in the wilderness grubbing out rocks and swinging a pick or shovel to bring a hiking trail back up to national standards. The hard part is getting the U.S. Forest Service to come up with […]
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By Louis Sahagun, Los Angeles Times The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power and the Mammoth Lakes Community Water District announced Thursday that they have reached a compromise settlement over use of the High Sierra ski town’s water supply, ending a dispute whose roots reach back a century. Under the terms, Mammoth Lakes will […]
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KTVN Channel 2 – Reno Tahoe News Weather, Video – By Erin Breen, KTVN-TV It is a beautiful day at Lake Tahoe and Angela Stevens and Brian Fitzgerald are just offshore. They are cruising the shoreline at eight miles an hour. And they are hard at work. They are working on a new project that […]
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By AP LAS VEGAS — Caesars Entertainment is taking steps to spin off its online gambling venture into a separate company. The casino operator, which owns Harveys and Harrah’s Lake Tahoe in Stateline, said in a Securities and Exchange Commission filing Wednesday that it plans to raise $1.2 billion by selling stock in the company. […]
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By Jim Holt, Santa Clarita Signal A South Lake Tahoe man responsible for sending two young Valencia women to the hospital with serious injuries in a May DUI-related collision was taken to state prison Thursday to begin serving a two-year sentence, law enforcement officials said. Michael Guevara, 32, was picked up at the Pitchess North […]
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Part of Heavenly Mountain Resort was shut off to hikers for the better part of Friday because a gunman was on the mountain. A 25-year-old Fremont man eventually shot himself July 12. Lake Tahoe News is not publishing the man’s name. The man had posted a video on Facebook with a message to his family […]
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Update 6:35pm: Shooting suspect Gary Wilson turned himself in to law enforcement about 3:45 this afternoon.. He faces attempted murder with use of a deadly weapon and other charges. But was expected to be set this evening at between $100,000 and $500,000. — Douglas County officials are looking for a man who they say is […]
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