By Jon Ortiz, Sacramento Bee Despite the Brown administration’s edict last year to sweep out nearly all retirees from the state workforce, more than two dozen departments still use them to fill some of the highest-paying positions in government, according to state data reviewed by the Bee. The numbers in an internal Department of Human […]
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Publisher’s note: This is one of a few stories about construction planned for the Lake Tahoe Basin this summer. By Kathryn Reed El Dorado County planners are busy plotting what will be happening in the basin for the next few years. And while improvements to roads and bike trails could happen this year, 2014 will […]
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The log in the middle of South Lake Tahoe that honors the children from this area who have died is rotting. There is a movement afoot to replace it and make changes to the Children’s Memorial at the corner of Highway 50 and Wildwood Avenue. Kenny Curtzwiler, whose son died in 2010, would like to […]
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By Naureen S. Malik and Lynn Doan, Bloomberg California may face the biggest regional power shortages in more than a decade this summer, sending wholesale prices higher, as idled nuclear reactors and low hydroelectric output cut generating capacity. The California Independent System Operator Corp. said last month that managing the state grid, especially in parts […]
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By Kathryn Reed While a definite solution has not been decided upon, most of the talk at last week’s South Tahoe Public Utility District meeting centered on having an intertie be the solution to the water issue for the T.J. Maxx building. That building at the Y is owned by the Garfinkles and is serviced […]
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By Electa Draper, Denver Post Five backcountry snowboarders are confirmed dead in Colorado’s deadliest avalanche since 1962. The avalanche at Loveland Pass on Highway 6 struck between 1 and 2:30, the Clear Creek County Sheriff’s Office announced late Saturday afternoon. The sheriff’s office said there was one confirmed survivor. Sheriff Don Krueger said the avalanche […]
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A South Lake Tahoe 9-year-old girl was not accosted last week as has been reported by some news outlets in South Lake Tahoe. “We did more follow-up today and it was unfounded,” El Dorado County sheriff’s Sgt. Matt Underhill told Lake Tahoe News. There were doubts all along about the girl’s story being completely accurate, […]
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By Matt Weiser, Sacramento Bee California today was declared to be out of compliance with the federal Clean Water Act because it is sitting on $455 million that should be spent to improve local drinking water systems. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency submitted the notice after years of fruitless efforts to get the state to […]
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By Anne Knowles Only a handful of people showed up for a local open house conducted this week by the U.S. Forest Service to get feedback on its controversial stance on water rights for ski resorts. The Thursday afternoon meeting in the Forest Service office in South Lake Tahoe followed earlier and similarly attended meetings […]
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By Katharine Q. Seely, William K. Rashbaum and Michael Cooper, New York Times BOSTON — The teenage suspect in the marathon bombings, whose flight from the police after a furious gunfight early Friday morning sparked an intense manhunt that virtually shut down the entire Boston metropolitan area all day, was taken into custody Friday night […]
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