By Ryan Lillis, Molly Sullivan And Marjie Lundstrom, Sacramento Bee Wildfires continued to lay siege to huge swaths of Northern California on Wednesday, forcing the evacuations of thousands from iconic Wine Country towns like Calistoga and destroying thousands of homes and businesses in what Gov. Jerry Brown said was one of the worst fire events […]
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By Rebecca Ash, UCLA California has taken a wild weather ride over the past two years: A historic drought finally came to an end, and the winter of 2016–17 was the wettest winter in decades. Meanwhile, recent studies have projected that climate change will turn up the heat by up to 10 degrees in the […]
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Publisher’s note: The smoke blowing into the Lake Tahoe Basin and Truckee on Oct. 11 is from the Wine Country fires. By Stuart Leavenworth, Sacramento Bee A cascade of extreme weather events fed Northern California’s wildfires that exploded Sunday: Unusually high winds blew flames through unusually dense and dry vegetation, which sprang up following last […]
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A fire started Tuesday afternoon two miles west of Ice House and White Meadows roads in the Eldorado National Forest. The Ice Fire is separate from the Table Fire that has been burning for more than a month. The newer fire has burned 25 acres. While voluntary evacuations were initially called for, they have since […]
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By Paige St. John, Dakota Smith, Hailey Branson-Potts and Joy Resmovits, Los Angeles Times The distress calls crackled over the Napa County sheriff’s dispatch radio in a rapid staccato late Sunday as flames sped toward residents on Atlas Peak Road. “Parents trapped in garage,” an officer called in to the central dispatcher. Then: “The […]
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Douglas County Lake Tahoe Sewer Authority will meet for the first time on Oct. 11. One of the board’s first tasks will be to appoint a fifth member, who is supposed to represent the Stateline business community. The four sitting members are county Commissioner Nancy McDermid, Round Hill General Improvement District trustee Wesley Rice, Kingsbury […]
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By Sean Whaley and Ben Botkin, Las Vegas Review-Journal Just as the Sandy Hook school shooting prompted efforts to regulate gun policies in Nevada in 2013, the mass shooting in Las Vegas on Oct. 1 will likely result in a new push when the Legislature convenes in 2019. As one lawmaker described it, the gun […]
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Free transit is being provided to Lake Tahoe Community College students this year in a pilot program with Tahoe Transportation District. The college is providing $36,000 to “mitigate administrative, operational, and capital costs associated with this pilot program.” LTCC has heard from students that one of the barriers to attending is being able to get […]
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Traffic was backed up near Cave Rock on Tuesday because of a vehicle collision. A truck and Tahoe Transportation District bus were in an accident on Highway 50 the morning of Oct. 10. According to the Nevada Highway Patrol, two people received non-life threatening injuries. TTD did not respond to an inquiry. It’s not known […]
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An Incline Village woman died from injuries she sustained in an Oct. 7 car accident in Reno. Karin Schulze Brown, 76, was going south in the left lane of South Virginia Street when a vehicle pulled in front of her. Brown braked, but couldn’t avoid hitting the Jeep Liberty, according to the Nevada Highway Patrol. […]
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