By Melissa Siig, Moonshine Ink The $60 million planned boutique hotel that would be Tahoe City’s first major hotel in more than 60 years is facing a second lawsuit. Five months after settling the first one, Kila Properties, developer of the Tahoe City Lodge, was sued again, literally days before the rundown Henrikson building was set […]
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A Gardnerville man who was involved in a motorcycle accident July 8 on Kingsbury Grade has died from his injuries. Dana Edward Orgill, 69, was headed toward the Carson Valley at about 2:45pm that day when he “failed to negotiate a left curve and drove off the highway onto the gravel shoulder area,” according to […]
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A Bay Area man was stabbed Thursday in a South Lake Tahoe parking lot all over a dispute about a parking space, according to police officers. The incident occurred in front of CVS in the Bijou Center at about 10:30am July 12. Officers said they found Scott Nevin, 51, of San Jose bleeding from the […]
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By Merrit Kennedy, NPR Convicted murderer Scott Dozier has clearly and repeatedly stated that he wants to be executed. The planned execution, using a three-drug cocktail, had been set for Wednesday evening at Ely State Prison in Nevada. Experts say it would be the first time the opioid fentanyl was used in a U.S. execution. […]
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By Kathryn Reed After much legal wrangling, Cody Bass is the official owner of the center that houses his Tahoe Wellness Cooperative in South Lake Tahoe. The paperwork was recorded July 9. Still to be determined is who will own the house that was once the home of pioneer family Neal and Patty Olson. Patty […]
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By Jason Samenow, Washington Post Temperatures shot up over 110 degrees in Southern California on Friday, obliterating all kinds of long-standing heat records, and the lights went out for tens of thousands of customers. Californians were powerless, without air conditioning, in the hottest weather many had ever experienced. Climate scientists have known this was coming, […]
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By Caitlin Chen, Sacramento Bee A November ballot measure to repeal California’s recent gas tax increase threatens road improvement and maintenance projects that receive funding through the tax. The initiative, which requires voter approval for any new gas tax increase, is retroactive to the beginning of 2017, effectively stopping the new fees created when lawmakers […]
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By Emily Cadei, Sacramento Bee Placer County residents crammed a Board of Supervisors’ meeting in Auburn on July 10 to air their opinions on Senate Bill 54, the state law that limits the ability of state and local law enforcement to help federal agents enforce immigration law. Local officials estimated more than 150 people turned […]
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By Associated Press A Nevada inmate slated to die by a three-drug lethal injection combination never before used in the U.S. has said repeatedly he wants his sentence carried out and he doesn’t care if it’s painful. But a last-minute lawsuit filed by a drug company that doesn’t want its product used in “botched” executions […]
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By Kathryn Reed The overriding reason to be in a hot tub is to relax. Just the opposite happens when bees buzz around just inches from your face and then want to make the body of water their continual drinking fountain. Then there are the yellow jackets that have such good sniffers they know where […]
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