Updated Jan. 13 12:25pm By Kathryn Reed Two Bay Area residents are recovering from frostbite and hypothermia after being rescued near Bear River Reservoir in Eldorado National Forest on Saturday night. “We are just lucky to be alive,” Sally Shanks told Lake Tahoe News on Jan. 13 from her bed at Barton Memorial Hospital. But […]
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A South Lake Tahoe resident on Jan. 12 reported a suspicious phone call to law enforcement that has led to a warning by officers. According to police, a man identified himself as a Drug Enforcement Agency agent investigating a mail order prescription purchase the resident had made in 2006. The resident was told to send/wire […]
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By Kate Pickert, Time It’s 8am on a Wednesday, and Tammi Kromenaker is on the phone, trying to untangle an insurance snafu. After 15 minutes of arguing with a billing operator, the director of the Red River Women’s Clinic in Fargo, N.D., begins preparing for the patients who will soon arrive. Staff members trickle in. […]
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Truckee is considering an ordinance that would ban all plastic checkout bags and require businesses to impose a fee on recyclable paper checkout bags. The ordinance’s main intention is to stimulate reusable bag use, and in effect, reduce Truckee’s waste through a dramatic decrease in the consumption of single-use checkout bags. All money collected by […]
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By Huffington Post A college degree’s impact on earning potential is well known, but new data questions whether an associate’s degree can beat out a bachelor’s. Mark Schneider, president of CollegeMeasures.org and a vice president at the American Institutes for Research, told NBC many associate’s degrees “are worth a lot more than I expected and […]
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By Kathryn Reed Horizon hotel-casino in Stateline is struggling to keep its door open and find people to rent one of the 539 rooms. Tahoe Horizon LLC, a subsidiary of Columbia Sussex Corp., runs the South Shore business. Horizon employees were laid off before the December holidays. This is usually one of the busiest times […]
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Three people were arrested Jan. 10 in connected with the Jan. 2 armed robbery at the Incline Village Chevron station. Two 17-year-old boys and 18-year-old Jorge Miranda-Rivas, all of Incline, were charged with robbery with a deadly weapon, conspiracy to commit robbery, grand larceny of an automobile and conspiracy to commit grand larceny of an […]
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By Mike Anton, Los Angeles Times HOMEWOOD — She was born under a house on the west shore of Lake Tahoe and quickly became a beloved fixture in this rustic community. She rambled through backyards and climbed into open windows to snack. She swam in the lake’s impossibly blue water and sunned herself on the […]
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Updated Jan. 11 3:50pm Power has been restored to all NV Energy customers on the South Shore. Crews have identified the mechanical problem at the Round Hill substation and are working to fix it. —– Updated Jan. 11 2:30pm Two-hundred NV Energy customers remain without power Friday afternoon. All are in the Lower Kingsbury Grade […]
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Known as the “fedora bandit” because of the hat he wore, David Griffith Osborne, 74, pleaded guilty Jan. 11 to three counts of armed robbery. The former Carson City resident pleaded guilty to robbing the Gridley Bank of the West, Rancho Cordova’s American River Bank, and Paradise’s Chase Bank – all in 2010. Osborne is […]
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