By Ben Botkin, Las Vegas Review-Journal CARSON CITY — A retired FBI agent will be Nevada’s first statewide opioid coordinator. Attorney General Aam Laxalt announced on Monday the appointment of Terry Kerns, whose job will be to bridge the gap between law enforcement agencies and victims’ service providers as Nevada responds to the opioid […]
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By Sacramento Bee An online post threatening the safety of an El Dorado County high school campus has been traced to a 19-year-old Texas man. Over the weekend, the Union Mine High School Yearbook’s Instagram page received a threatening post, according to an El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office news release. Read the whole story
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By Stephen Saturno, Moonshine Ink How can it be that one of the biggest health concerns in our area goes mostly unnoticed? While most people have barely heard of radon, testing in our area is nearly nonexistent. Even when you buy a home, there’s a one-page disclosures section that’s buried in a 200-page document somewhere […]
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A 38-year-old Gardnerville man died in a two-car accident on Highway 88 on Monday. The driver, whose name has not been released, was going east on the highway near Red Lake Road when he drifted into oncoming traffic. The impact of the Oct. 16, 9:25am collision inflicted fatal injuries. The other driver was in a […]
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By Mina Corpuz, Los Angeles Times California will be the first state to require pet stores to sell rescue animals under legislation signed by Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday. Starting in 2019, pet stores will transition to selling dogs, cats and rabbits from shelters or adoption centers. Stores can be fined $500 for each animal […]
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By Ryan Sabalow, Dale Kasler And Ellen Garrison, Sacramento Bee The sun was shining, the temperatures were pleasant and, by all rights, the tasting room at Buena Vista Winery should have been packed Sunday. Instead, California’s oldest winery was surrounded by a phalanx of exhausted, soot-covered firefighters. Wine barrels were dusted in ash, and the […]
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By Bettina Boxall, Los Angeles Times Block after block of tidy housing tracts reduced to heaps of ash. Death counts in the double digits. Homeowners numbly poking through the ruins of domestic life. California has seen this before. But the harrowing images of loss and destruction usually come out of the south. “These kinds […]
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A South Lake Tahoe woman continues to fight for her life after her vehicle was struck by a driver going the wrong direction on Interstate 80. The collision occurred Oct. 12 about 11:54pm on westbound I-80 near Verdi. According to the Nevada Highway Patrol, James Liston, 39, of Reno entered the freeway in the wrong […]
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South Lake Tahoe Public Utility District customers were without water this morning when a water line was severed. A contractor early Oct. 16 struck a 14-inch line at Cedar Avenue and La Salle Street near the state line. It is not known how many customers were without water. Some just experience low pressure. Service was […]
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By Alexandra Spychalsky, Moonshine Ink When General Manager Jeff Hill walked into Jake’s on the Lake on the morning of Jan. 8, the sound of falling raindrops echoed through the restaurant. But it wasn’t pitter-patter from a storm outside. It was the sound of rushing water coming from inside the restaurant, a literal indoor torrential […]
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