By Roxanne Khamsi, Scientific American Marijuana is more popular and accessible in the U.S. than any other street drug. In national surveys, 48 percent of Americans say they have tried it, and 6.5 percent of high school seniors admit to daily use. So it was not too surprising when two states, Washington and Colorado, became […]
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A Truckee resident was arrested May 22 on multiple counts of check fraud, forgery, theft, burglary and financial related elder abuse. Richard Copeland, 48, had allegedly been stealing money and other items from his family members for several months. Once discovered by other family members, they reported their suspicions to law enforcement. Copeland’s bail was […]
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By Kathryn Reed INCLINE VILLAGE – It was obvious during a lengthy and at times heated discussion Wednesday that the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency Governing Board does not fully understand the building allocation policy. And they are the policymakers. After last month’s meeting where staff enlightened the board about how 86 of a possible 130 […]
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AAA Travel projects 34.8 million Americans will journey 50 miles or more from home this Memorial Day weekend, a 0.9 percent decrease from the 35.1 million people who traveled last year. The anticipated decline in holiday travel is predominately due to a decline in air travel of 8 percent, fee fatigue among travelers and a […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe police Officer Johnny Poland is going to prison. Poland pleaded guilty today to obstruction of an official proceeding. This was one of four charges leveled against the 44-year-old earlier this year. He will be sentenced Aug. 7. He faces a maximum sentence of 20 years behind bars, a $250,000 […]
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By Kathryn Reed No longer can opponents to South Lake Tahoe’s expansion of metered parking point to Truckee as an example of a town that continuously loses money with paid parking. Truckee is projected to net $140,000 this fiscal year that ends June 30. And the town council this month agreed – unanimously – to […]
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Unable to call the courthouse, prospective jurors did their due diligence and showed up for potential jury duty on Tuesday. What happened is hundreds of – with some estimates being close to 500 – people were outside the Johnson Boulevard facility in South Lake Tahoe. About 20 percent of those people were needed for questioning. […]
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By Cathy Locke, Sacramento Bee El Dorado County residents and sheriff’s investigators are trying to track down vandals who have laid waste to thousands of dollars’ worth of trees on private property. Detective John Robertson said he has five active cases, all involving cedars that have been felled in recent months. Three of the incidents […]
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By Kathryn Reed Krystal Steadman never learned the lessons taught in Fighting Chance. Her fourth-grade class at Meyers Elementary School was on the calendar that spring of 2000 a week after the 9-year-old was abducted. It would be pure speculation that the then fourth-grader would be alive today had she been taught what to do […]
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By Chris Ciarlo, KTVN-TV As the economy continues to recover, every state is fighting for tourism dollars. Here, at home, the Reno-Sparks Convention and Visitors Authority is launching a new campaign it hopes will bring in the next wave of tourists called Northern Nevada Motor Madness. “When I arrived in Reno, I was really delighted […]
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