Publisher’s note: This is one in a series of stories about affordable housing in the Lake Tahoe-Truckee region. All articles may be accessed via the home page under Special Projects, 2017 Affordable Housing. By Kathryn Reed A few dozen South Lake Tahoe residents have been removed from their affordable housing units so more tourist accommodation […]
Read moreUpdated 5:35pm: The fire burning near the Mount Rose Highway is 35 percent contained and has burned 29 acres. Lightning started the Whites Fire on Aug. 1 near the White Creek Trailhead southwest of Reno. Access to trails in that area is closed. “The fire is burning in an area that is rocky and extremely […]
Read moreThe former Kingsbury Middle School property is back on Douglas County School District board’s agenda. The electeds will be asked to approve or deny a sales extension to Patrick Taylor at the Aug. 8, 3:30pm meeting in Stateline. The Cave Rock resident a year ago entered into an agreement to purchase the Stateline site for […]
Read moreBy Kathryn Reed In the last five years, 137 environmental projects have been initiated in the Lake Tahoe Basin, with 207 in the planning stage. They will cost $1.5 billion to implement, but only $670 million has been secured. This was some of the information delivered at last week’s Tahoe Regional Planning Agency Governing Board […]
Read moreBy Mark Niquette and Alan Bjerga, Bloomberg President Trump has promised to expand broadband service to rural areas as part of his $1 trillion nationwide infrastructure plan. That may be easier said than done. It would take an estimated $80 billion to extend broadband to all U.S. areas that lack it, but the White House […]
Read moreBy Colton Lochhead, Las Vegas Review-Journal Opponents of recreational marijuana say Nevada will be hit with “very serious unintended consequences” if the state does not tighten its regulations of the legal cannabis market. Kevin Sabet, president of the national anti-pot group Smart Approaches to Marijuana, hammered Nevada for what he called weak restrictions on marijuana […]
Read moreBy Andrea Thompson, Climate Central The West is ablaze as the summer wildfire season has gotten off to an intense start. More than 37,000 fires have burned more than 5.2 million acres nationally since the beginning of the year, with 47 large fires burning across nine states as of Friday. The relatively early activity is […]
Read moreA transient who is a registered sex offender was arrested at the Placerville Library for allegedly exposing himself to patrons. Gabriel Armenta, 42, is accused of exposing himself to a woman and her 18-month-old daughter. The incident occurred the morning of July 27. Officers said Armenta had been convicted of indecent exposure in the past. […]
Read moreAug. 1 marks the second consecutive day the South Lake Tahoe Bank of the West branch has been closed for unspecified reasons. According to the Tahoe City branch, the South Lake office will reopen on Wednesday. It was closed for “environmental reasons,” according to Tahoe City. The woman said she could not say anything else. […]
Read moreBy Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazette-Journal A Tahoe-area wildlife activist is suing Nevada officials he says falsely accused him of domestic terrorism. The activist, Mark E. Smith, is suing the Nevada Department of Wildlife and several of its employees he says, “maliciously continue to make,” misrepresentations. Smith’s lawsuit targets wildlife biologist Carl Lackey, game division […]
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