By Vanessa Rancano, KQED High school seniors across the state are waiting on news that will shape the rest of their lives. This month they find out whether they are among the thousands being admitted to the University of California or California State University. Both UCs and CSUs are struggling to find space for qualified […]
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By Aimee Cunningham, Science News Some victims were found at home. An 84-year-old woman who’d spent over half her life in the same Sacramento apartment died near her front door, gripping her keys. A World War II veteran succumbed in his bedroom. Many died outside, including a hiker who perished on the Pacific Crest Trail, […]
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By Cathy Locke, Sacramento Bee The number of vehicle thefts in California headed downward in 2017, following two years of increases. El Dorado County saw a 17.5 percent increase, from 286 in 2016 to 336 in 2017, according to CHP statistics. Sacramento and Placer County counties followed the statewide trend. Read the whole story
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Updated April 6, 5:30pm: By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe acting City Manager Jeff Meston has told the City Council that he wants to step down. Meston’s full-time job is fire chief of the city. He has had the added responsibilities since Feb. 7. That is when the council put then City Manager Nancy Kerry […]
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By Wes Siler, Outside In the United States, pet dogs produce 21.2 billion pounds of poop each year. All that poop is polluting water sources, both in urban areas and the backcountry, largely because dog owners aren’t doing a good enough job picking it up. Let’s look at the reasons why dog poop has become such […]
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The National Weather Service in Reno has issued a flood watch from April 6 at 5pm to April 8 at 5am for the greater Lake Tahoe area, as well as parts of the Carson Valley and Reno areas. A strong atmospheric river will impact the Sierra. Significant precipitation will combine with high snow levels to […]
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By Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazette-Journal It took a near-miracle but Lake Tahoe is once again holding enough water to supply Reno for as many as three years. That’s after a dismal start to winter during which snowpack in the Lake Tahoe basin was just 25 percent of the median peak on March 1. “We will […]
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It took South Lake Tahoe police officers a year to determine that the drowning death of a Sacramento woman was just that – a drowning. Pamela Suwinsky, 62, was reported missing by her ex-husband on April 3, 2017. Her body was recovered six days later by the El Dorado County dive team in the Upper […]
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By Kathryn Reed It will be 12 years ago this fall that four design teams vied for the opportunity to develop what is known as the 56-acre parcel in South Lake Tahoe. The future of much of that land is still undetermined because the city and county are not on the same page. The county […]
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By Joshua F.J. Inwood, The Conversation On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, while fighting for a 10-cent wage increase for garbage workers. These efforts by King were part of a broader and more sustained initiative known as the Poor People’s Campaign. King was working to broaden the scope of […]
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