By Bill Lindelof, Sacramento Bee The El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office said a $10,000 reward is being offered to find a woman who has not been heard from in more than a year. Sara Fawcett, (pictured) a Placerville Wal-Mart employee, called in sick Sept. 22, 2011. She was last seen or heard from the next […]
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By Dean Starkman, Columbia Journalism Review The Newspaper Association of America takes some comfort, and with some reason, in the news that newspaper revenues declined only 2 percent in 2012, to $38.6 billion, from $39.5 billion the previous year. That’s indeed something to cheer about when you consider that for the better part of a […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – With a near unanimous vote, the Tahoe Transportation District on Friday selected five loop road alternatives to study in the environmental documents. But what that assessment will look like is not expected to be released in draft form until January 2015. Angela Swanson, South Lake Tahoe’s rep to the TTD […]
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By Hayley Tsukayama, Washington Post You may be a stickler for keeping control of all the data in your many online accounts, but what will happen to that data after you die? It’s a question that Google’s addressing with the announcement of a new tool, the Inactive Account Manager, that gives Google users the option […]
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By Cy Ryan, Las Vegas Sun CARSON CITY — By a party-line vote, the Senate Committee on Legislative Operations and Elections has approved a proposed constitutional amendment to permit same-sex couples to marry. The resolution passed April 11 would repeal the state’s ban on gay marriage and sets out that Nevada would recognize marriages, regardless […]
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By Barbara Barte Osborn, Sacramento Bee One of Truckee’s most historic buildings, the C.B. White House, was damaged in a fire early Thursday. Donner Pass Road between Spring Street and the downtown roundabout was closed from about 4-8am to accommodate firefighting equipment from local fire departments, said Paul Spencer, fire prevention officer for the Truckee […]
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By Kathryn Reed Even with Gino DiMatteo being formally sentenced April 10 to five years in federal prison, the case is not completely closed. Still blowing in the wind is Angela Swanson. The South Lake Tahoe City Councilwoman was caught up in the DiMatteo mess in August when she was questioned, had her house searched […]
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South Lake Tahoe police officers are looking for the people who burglarized two businesses at the Y this week. Cash was taken from the register at Bert’s Café on Monday night. The next night two laptops were stolen from Barton University. While the businesses are across the street from each other on Emerald Bay Road, […]
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By Cy Ryan, Las Vegas Sun CARSON CITY — A Senate committee has cleared a bill to permit a network of medical marijuana dispensaries, but those who sell the drug will have to pay a $20,000 licensing fee. In 2000, voters approved a constitutional amendment to allow possession of medical marijuana if prescribed by a […]
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By Anjeanette Damon, Las Vegas Sun CARSON CITY — At a legislative hearing this month on a controversial bill that could determine the future of the bi-state agency tasked with protecting the Lake Tahoe environment, Tahoe Regional Planning Agency board member Steve Robinson urged the committee to preserve Nevada’s ability to abolish the agency altogether. […]
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