By Sonali Kohli, Los Angeles Times More than two dozen investigators have spent weeks scouring wine country trying to solve the mystery at the heart of the most destructive wildfires in California history: What caused the infernos that killed 43 people and destroyed more than 8,000 buildings? The answers will have wide-ranging ramifications for the […]
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By Lake Tahoe News El Dorado County Board of Supervisors in December is expected to approve a temporary ban on the sales of recreational and medicinal marijuana. Any medical facilities in operation today would be grandfathered in. They are taking the same approach as South Lake Tahoe and many other jurisdictions in wanting to have […]
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By Michelle D. Layser, The Conversation Low-income Americans are already struggling to keep a roof over their heads due to a growing affordable housing shortage. But budgets drafted by the Trump administration and Congress, along with provisions in the tax cut package, are bound to make matters worse. As a researcher who studies the intersection […]
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Douglas County is likely to recoup much of what it spent last winter on flooding issues. Seven projects in the Carson Valley cost more than $380,000. Through FEMA the county could see $285,779. Work needed to done be included clearing debris, fixing pipes and pumps, and repairs to the North Valley Wastewater Treatment Plant. — […]
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The Housing Element of the 2016 Douglas County Master Plan update is scheduled to go before the Board of Commissioners on Dec. 4, 9am in Minden. Public comment will be taken at the meeting, while written comments will be accepted before then. According to participants in the 2016 Master Plan survey, the Housing Element was […]
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By Associated Press California released long-awaited rules Thursday that will govern the state’s emerging legal marijuana industry, while potentially opening the way for larger-scale cultivation that some fear could strangle small-farm growers. The thicket of emergency regulations will allow the state to begin issuing temporary licenses for growers, distributors and sellers on Jan. 1, when […]
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Electric rates could be going up more than 4 percent starting Jan. 1 for Liberty Utilities customers. The company in October asked the California Public Utilities Commission for the $2,174,648 increase. The basis is because of capital projects in excess of $4 million and inflation. The notice sent to ratepayers, which includes the California side […]
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By Barbara J. Powell, Bloomberg U.S. Thanksgiving travel will jump to the highest level since 2005 boosted by a stronger economy, even as gasoline prices will be higher than a year earlier. About 50.9 million Americans will journey 50 miles or more from home for the Nov. 22-Nov. 26 holiday period, the ninth consecutive increase […]
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By Kathryn Reed Like so many people, Lauri Kemper thought she was going to spend a couple years at Lake Tahoe and then move on. That didn’t happen. Instead she spent the last 32 years with the Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board, 20 of them as a manager. On Dec. 18 she retires as […]
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A Lake Tahoe Unified School District bus carrying 15 students slid off the road Friday morning. No one was injured. According to the California Highway Patrol, the bus driver was west on 13th Street near Gardner Street at a slow rate of speed when she was unable to stop because of the slick road. This […]
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