By Kathryn Reed KINGS BEACH — One person doesn’t want a dog use area, another longs for the days of his youth when there was better fish habitat and the beach went up to the road. Those were the only two public comments during the June 27 Tahoe Regional Planning Agency meeting regarding the Kings […]
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The vacation home rental initiative being backed by the South Lake Tahoe real estate community did not qualify for the ballot. The effort was an attempt to counter what is a more Draconian measure that has qualified for the November election. That proposal would create a gradual ban on vacation home rentals in the city […]
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By Ruben J. Garcia, The Conversation American labor unions have long been bracing for a “post-Janus” future in which collecting dues would be harder than ever. The Janus case has been moving through the courts for two years and addresses the question of whether a public employee can be forced to pay dues to a […]
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A toddler is alive thanks to the quick actions of a school resource officer visiting Lake Tahoe on June 27. Roy Mitchell Jr. with the Baltimore County Police Department said he noticed something unusual in the water approximately 10 feet from shore. Upon closer look, he determined it was a hand. Mitchell lifted a motionless […]
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By Hugo Martin, Los Angeles Times To hear Sudhin Shahani explain the latest turbulence at Surf Air, you would get the impression that all is well with the all-you-can-fly membership airline. But the chairman and chief executive of Santa Monica-based Surf Air, which operates in Truckee, can’t completely dismiss the sense that something is amiss […]
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By Christopher Ingraham, Washington Post Americans are conserving water in their homes like never before, according to a U.S. Geological Survey report released this month. In per capita terms, domestic water use has plummeted from 112 gallons per day in 1980 to just 82 gallons in 2015, a 27 percent decrease. Take 30 gallon-sized milk […]
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By Adam Ashton and Emily Cadei, Sacramento Bee California’s pubic employee unions were handed a serious blow in a Supreme Court ruling Wednesday that forbids them from collecting fees from workers who benefit from their representation but do not want to join them. In a 5 to 4 ruling, the court determined that public sector […]
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By Associated Press A man who authorities say claimed to be a police officer and pointed a gun during a road rage encounter near Lake Tahoe has been sentenced to up to four years in prison. Jared Kaiser, 33, was sentenced Monday after pleading guilty in April to assault with a deadly weapon. Read the […]
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A 33-year-old South Lake Tahoe bicyclist was killed early Wednesday morning by a hit-and-run driver. The man, whose name has not been released, was found by construction workers in the early morning of June 27 when they arrived to work. He was already deceased. This was on Highway 50 eastbound, west of the Upper Truckee […]
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By Giovanni Luca Ciampaglia and Filippo Menczer, The Conversation Social media are among the primary sources of news in the U.S. and across the world. Yet users are exposed to content of questionable accuracy, including conspiracy theories, clickbait, hyperpartisan content, pseudo science and even fabricated “fake news” reports. It’s not surprising that there’s so much […]
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