Tahoe Douglas firefighters were able to keep a chimney fire from spreading to the rest of the house Monday night. The call came in about 6pm Jan. 14 that a house in the Skyland area was on fire. “This was extinguished without damage to the structure,” Fire Marshal Eric Guevin told Lake Tahoe News. He […]
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By Kathryn Reed After three days of record-breaking low temperatures, many pipes in the Lake Tahoe Basin had enough and started doing some breaking of their own. The four major casinos in the Stateline casino corridor have all had burst pipes. The damage started Jan. 13 at Horizon when a pipe near the loading dock […]
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A 52-year-old Truckee man was arrested Saturday on domestic violence charges. Truckee officers responded to a 911 call for assistance from a female on Beacon Way on Jan. 11. She had been involved in a physical struggle with the suspect. Police were called back to the residence the next day. Officers contacted the original victim […]
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By Malia Wollan, New York Times Deep in the Sierra Nevada, 39 trillion gallons of crystalline water straddles the border between California and Nevada. That water, Lake Tahoe, can be as smooth as glass, but the politics of land-use planning along the lake’s 72-mile shoreline are some of the most contentious and muddled in the […]
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By Kathryn Reed While the South Lake Tahoe City Council keeps making decisions about paid parking, the issue won’t go away. And it’s not going away because of a 1987 agreement with Heavenly Mountain Resort that has come to light. The staff report dated Nov. 18, 1987, says, “Any costs related to the use of […]
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A broken pipe in the fitness education center at Lake Tahoe Community College means no classes in that building through at least Jan. 16. LTCC officials discovered the burst pipe Jan. 13. They are still assessing the situation and as of Sunday night did not have an estimated value of the damage. All other classes […]
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By David McGrath Schwartz, Las Vegas Sun CARSON CITY — Nevada’s hard fall from its peak seems to be over. The ugly years of shuttered businesses, massive layoffs and relentless cuts in education and government services are, for the most part, past. But if this is the tenor of the state’s recovery, it will be […]
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By Anne Knowles, Northern Nevada Business Weekly Douglas County has added another feather to its economic development cap. It is the first county in the state to be certified as a Connected Community from Connect Nevada, the state affiliate of Connected Nation, a nonprofit advocating for widespread broadband access. To receive certification, the county conducted […]
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Placing hot ashes on a combustible wood deck caused a South Lake Tahoe house to catch fire Jan. 12. The fire at 1394 Matheson Drive started at 12:30pm on the deck, moved up the exterior wall and started to move into the residence as firefighters arrived on scene. “It was in between the wall and […]
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By Peter Hecht, Sacramento Bee On July 27, 1985, a local land surveyor facing divorce called the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office from one of two family homes near Wilderness Way, south of Placerville. “I think I just shot my husband,” Colleen Ann Batten told a dispatcher. Last Sunday, sheriff’s officers arrested the same woman […]
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