By Josh Sanburn, Time Riley Anderson was a C student in high school, bored by the work and driven partly by a desire to stay on the football team. In 2015, he graduated 25th in his class–of 31 students. Without a particular career in mind, Anderson enrolled at Lake Area Technical Institute (LATI) in […]
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A South Lake Tahoe man was arrested Sunday after he allegedly ran into two pedestrians with his motorized bicycle. The collision occurred about 7:25pm Aug. 27 at Highway 50 and Rufus Allen Boulevard. Patrick Bryan Baker, 41, was arrested on felony charges of driving under the influence, hit and run causing injuries, and a misdemeanor […]
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By Richard N. Velotta, Las Vegas Review-Journal Nevada Sen. Dean Heller told the story Monday morning of how Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., invited some airline executives to his office, seated them on a couch, then jammed a coffee table up against their knees. It is an example of how lawmakers are lobbied to legislate consumer […]
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El Dorado County and South Lake Tahoe online video services are being affected by a faulty fiber optic line in the Midwest. The Board of Supervisors’ meeting could not be accessed online Tuesday because of the issue. The City Council meeting tonight will also not be available. Online meeting agendas, minutes, archived audio and video […]
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By Sean Whaley, Las Vegas Review-Journal A Nevada think tank has filed a complaint with the state Attorney General’s Office over a Lake Tahoe-area government’s failure to follow the state public records law. The Nevada Policy Research Institute filed the complaint against the Incline Village General Improvement District after discovering last week that an official […]
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By Nicole Jackson, KTVN-TV According to CHP Truckee, a bicyclist is in the hospital with major injuries after being hit by a car on the West Shore of Lake Tahoe Monday afternoon. At approximately 12:40pm the victim, idenitified as Larry Ferguson, was riding his bike east on McKinney Rubicon Springs Road at an unknown speed. Officers say […]
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By Guy Marzorati, KQED-TV Gov. Jerry Brown and Democratic leaders in the Senate and Assembly have reached a deal on a $4 billion bond measure to fund affordable housing in the state. The measure addresses one cause of California’s affordable housing crisis: a lack of state funding to construct homes for low-income residents. Senate Bill […]
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A boulder came tumbling down on Highway 28 this morning, striking a vehicle in its path. The driver was taken to Renown Medical Center in Reno with non-life threatening injuries. The accident occurred about 6:30am on Aug. 29. It was about two miles north of the intersection with Highway 50. Highway 28 was closed while […]
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A Bay Area man died Saturday in an ATV accident in Homewood. The 30-year-old man, whose name has not been released, was riding the all-terrain vehicle on Forest Road 24 north of Sugar Pine Road when he failed to negotiate a curve, according to the California Highway Patrol. The ATV left the road and hit […]
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By Kathryn Reed Figuring out how to make the water near the shore as consistency clear as it is in the middle of Lake Tahoe is confounding scientists. Part of the problem is the limited historical data there is to work with. While scientists for decades have been studying the overall lake clarity issue, the […]
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