Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care founders Tom and Cheryl Millham were honored at this week’s South Lake Tahoe City Council meeting for their 35 years of rehabbing wildlife. Tom Millham spoke briefly with Lake Tahoe News after the recognition ceremony. In the next two to three weeks the nonprofit will be looking for builders, surveyors, excavators […]
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Caltrans workers and the California Highway Patrol were be out in force Tuesday on highways throughout the state, installing “Move Over” signs intended to help save lives and increase safety for motorists, highway workers, CHP officers, and other law enforcement. “Every day, highway workers put their lives in danger just by going to work,” Caltrans […]
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By Annie Gowen, Clarence Williams and Debbi Wilgoren, Washington Post WATERTOWN, Mass. — A massive manhunt was under way Friday morning in Boston and its suburbs, after one suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings died in a confrontation with police and the second was identified as a 19-year-old immigrant from Kyrgystan who, a classmate said, […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – Tahoe doesn’t have it. It could. But it’s going to take a concerted effort for that to happen. That was the message delivered Thursday by two women who know tourism. The it is what it takes to be on the list of places foreign visitors want to travel to. Caroline […]
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By Bart Jansen, USA Today Several senators rekindled the debate Tuesday whether personal gadgets interfere with an airliner’s cockpit electronics and urged the head of the Federal Aviation Administration to allow more gadgets on planes. Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo. told FAA Administrator Michael Huerta there is no risk from personal electronics that are restricted near […]
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By Torey Van Oot, Sacramento Bee California’s state auditor has found shortcomings in management and oversight of special license plate programs meant to provide funding for causes like Lake Tahoe, anti-terrorism efforts and state parks. The report, released today, found that the state has failed to collect more than $22 million in revenue that should […]
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By Ed Fletcher, Sacramento Bee In a scene that might have made Smokey Bear cringe, on a 100-degree day last July, a Sacramento man – in full view of his family and other witnesses – tossed a 2-inch diameter firework into a remote Placer County swimming hole. An ember from the explosion shot 25 feet […]
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By Brad Stone, Bloomberg Businessweek Toward the bottom of the list of disturbing aspects about Monday’s bombing at the Boston Marathon was this: Cellular networks in the area almost immediately slowed down and, for periods of time, appeared to stop working altogether. Runners and their loved ones could not connect, and victims had trouble communicating […]
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By Shan Li and Diana Marcum, Los Angeles Times Central Valley farmers, Southern California bankers and Silicon Valley executives have all struggled to find workers — and they say an outdated immigration policy has been to blame. They’re all hoping that a bipartisan group of U.S. senators will have the answer when it unveils its […]
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Nearly one year after Derek “Zippy” Penaranda was beaten at Mo’s Place, three people have been accused of killing him. Penaranda, who was from Ripon, was on the South Shore in May 2012 to celebrate his 30th birthday. He got in a fight at the South Lake Tahoe bar. He never recovered from the injuries […]
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