By Matt Weiser, Water Deeply Most Americans may not realize it, but we really don’t know with a lot of accuracy how much snow there is sitting in the mountains during winter. We also don’t always have a precise picture of where the snow level is when a storm moves in, or how much will […]
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By Carolyn Lochhead and Joaquin Palomino, San Francisco Chronicle A potentially lifesaving emergency alert system that Sonoma County officials decided against using during the deadly fires that swept through the area last month will finally get a long-planned upgrade, after nearly a yearlong delay by the Trump administration. All wireless carriers will be required to […]
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By Susan Wood After hearing a high-level power struggle among Barton Health executives, an El Dorado County Superior Court jury on Wednesday awarded former Chief Financial Officer Steve Neff with almost $800,000. Neff’s lawsuit involved a violation of labor law, fraud and breach of contract. The Nov. 8 judgment in favor of Neff includes $715,782.50 […]
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By Matt Levin, KQED The California dream isn’t dead. It just upped and moved to South Dakota. Less than half of people born in California in 1980 are making more money than their parents did as young adults. That’s the lowest percentage of children out-earning their parents that California has seen since at least 1940. […]
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By Associated Press Sheriff’s deputies say a long history of conflict between a motel manager and a tenant preceded a murder-suicide at Lake Tahoe where the manager shot a Kings Beach woman then turned the gun on himself. The Placer County sheriff’s office identified the woman killed Saturday as 34-year-old Isabelle Gallon. The manager of […]
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By Kathryn Reed While the majority of voters said yes to Measure C, that was not enough support for the South Lake Tahoe roads measure to pass. The sales tax initiative required two-thirds of the voters to cast yes ballots. With all the votes counted on Nov. 7, El Dorado County Elections Department is reporting […]
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By Tim Craig, Washington Post Even living on the West Coast, Marion Townsend decided to act as floods ravaged Texas and hurricanes pounded the Caribbean in recent weeks. Her Sacramento neighborhood slopes downward from a levee that separates it from the American River, in an area that officials concede never should have been settled but […]
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By Kathryn Reed Fourteen hundred. That’s the maximum number of vacation home rentals South Lake Tahoe will allow. After another meeting of the City Council on Nov. 7 where short-term rentals dominated the discussion, it’s possible the electeds might let the ink dry on the latest ordinance before revising it yet again. But no promises […]
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By Ben Botkin, Las Vegas Review-Journal State spending on inmate health care in Nevada is among the lowest in the U.S., according to a national Pew study released recently. The study also ranks the state’s rate of health care staffing as the fourth-lowest out of 43 states surveyed. But the study highlighted the Nevada Department […]
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The shooting Saturday in Kings Beach has been ruled a murder-suicide by Placer County sheriff’s deputies. “The manager showed up at the woman’s room, they exchanged heated words, and he pulled a gun and shot her. The woman’s boyfriend was present in the room, and as he ran to the bathroom window to escape, he […]
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