Incline Village schools are on a two-hour delay Thursday morning because of a power outage and slick roads. The National Weather Service in Reno has issue a flood watch for South Lake Tahoe, Stateline, Incline Village, Truckee, Portola, Susanville, Bridgeport, Mammoth Lakes, Sparks, Gardnerville, and Virginia City through Nov. 16 at 10pm. “Periods of moderate […]
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By Susan Wood In a matter of minutes, the Douglas County Planning Commission took a 15-year concept and paved the way for more lakefront property to be sold at Stateline – a rarity in Tahoe that could be a reflection of a flourishing housing market. The first of three phases of the Tahoe Beach Club […]
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By William Harwood, CBS News The current three- to seven-day forecasts Americans have come to rely on for planning everything from weekend picnics to hurricane evacuations rely heavily on constant updates from satellites that orbit Earth’s poles measuring temperature, moisture and a host of other variables that define the planet’s ever-changing weather. Early Tuesday, NASA […]
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By Kathryn Reed El Dorado County sheriff’s officials believe one of the bodies recovered recently from Fallen Leaf Lake is that of a woman who took her life after her son drowned in the same lake. David Ward was 21 when the boat he was fishing in capsized. His buddy made it to shore, but […]
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Parole was denied this month for a man convicted of murdering his 14-year-old stepson in 1985. Robert Kaser shot his wife and two stepsons with a .45 Cal semi-automatic handgun at their home in Placerville. Ehren died from his wounds three days after the Aug. 17 melee. Myles, age 12, and his mother, Priscilla, survived. […]
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By Nanette Asimov, San Francisco Chronicle The problem with California’s public colleges and universities is not in the quality of their academic offerings — it’s that the schools don’t do enough to help students find affordable places to live, according to a new statewide survey about higher education. That’s the view of a large majority […]
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By Climate Central/Kaiser Health News SANTA ROSA — As the deadliest fires in California history swept through leafy neighborhoods here, Kathleen Sarmento fled her home in the dark, drove to an evacuation center and began setting up a medical triage unit. Patients with burns and other severe injuries were dispatched to hospitals. She set […]
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By Christopher Cadelago, Sacramento Bee California could one day be uninhabitable. Fire. Heat. Floods. Infestation. Disease. Suffering. Scientists have for years warned about the ravaging consequences of a warming planet. Decamping for the 23rd session of the Conference of the Parties to the U.N. Convention on Climate Change, California academics and political leaders were mulling […]
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A South Lake Tahoe man is in custody after allegedly shooting a gun Sunday at the Tahoe Beach Retreat. Timothy Althouse, 30, faces an assault with a firearm on a person. He has posted the $75,000 bail. The incident occurred Nov. 12 at about 2:40am just after a concert at the South Lake Tahoe hotel. […]
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El Dorado County Chief Administrative Officer Don Ashton is doing a good job, according to his five bosses, aka the Board of Supervisors. This month they gave him a raise that will be effective Jan. 1. At that time he will be making $227,676 a year, while today he is making $214,926 annually. The electeds […]
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