By Kathryn Reed Offer a free bus ride and people will jump on board. That is what BlueGo officials discovered in September when two routes through South Lake Tahoe were free for five days. Ridership jumped 60 percent, according to Curtis Garner, who runs the transit system. What isn’t known is if the riders were […]
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Schools across the country, including in Lake Tahoe, are on heightened alert as threats are being made that violence will erupt on Dec. 21. Some are saying this has to do with the Mayan calendar as well as potential copycats after last Friday’s shootings in Connecticut. “Although there have been several rumors circulating throughout LTUSD […]
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By KRNV-TV According to a voice recording on the Agate Bay Water Company phone line, the water provided in Agate Bay (located between Kings Beach and Dollar Point on the North Shore) is contaminated with E. Coli. All residents are under a boil water order. E. Coli bacteria was found in a water sample collected […]
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While Lake Tahoe Unified School District officials are sending out emails saying suspects have been located in the doughnut-spinning, wall demolition incident from last week, no one has been arrested. A California Highway Patrol employee at the Meyers office tersely told Lake Tahoe News on Thursday night, “We are the investigating agency and no one […]
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A white Christmas it will be in Lake Tahoe. And a sunny one. But before Tuesday arrives there is going to be a lot of shoveling and snow blowing in the basin. A winter storm warning is in effect from Friday at 6am to Monday at 4am. “There’s very high confidence of several feet of […]
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By Denny Walsh, Sacramento Bee A Sacramento federal judge will decide soon whether public officials who green-lighted a major resort expansion in the Tahoe basin ignored the needs of the environment and the area’s residents. U.S. District Judge William B. Shubb heard five hours of oral arguments Wednesday by attorneys for two groups challenging the […]
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By Sanford Nax, Sacramento Business Journal The same team that helped develop McClellan Business Park and owns the 4,000-acre Stanford Ranch in Rocklin has bought 81 finished homesites at Gray’s Crossing resort in Truckee. LDK Capital LLC, is buying the remaining lots at Gray’s Crossing, a 750-acre community built around a championship golf course designed […]
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By Jason Blevins, Denver Post A U.S. District judge on Wednesday overturned a controversial new water law requiring ski area permit holders on public land to turn over water rights to the Forest Service. Judge William Martinez ruled that the Forest Service’s revision of 2011 and 2012 permit regulations governing water rights violated federal procedural […]
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By Matt Weiser, Sacramento Bee Dozens of employees at the state Department of Parks and Recreation were inappropriately paid for working outside their job classification, according to an audit by the State Controller’s Office released Tuesday. These “out-of-class” work assignments may have cost taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars beyond the misuse of funds at […]
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By Kathryn Reed Before Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care backers begin an all-out fund-raising campaign to get the dollars together to buy a 16-acre parcel in Meyers and transform it into a state-of-the-art rehabilitation-education center, they want to make sure TRPA is OK with their plans. This is why even though LTWC doesn’t own the property, […]
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