By Kathryn Reed Cleaning up the groundwater contamination at the Y area of South Lake Tahoe is moving at a glacial pace. And while more than 60 people last week attended a meeting at Lake Tahoe Airport about PCE, or tetrachloroethylene, not much new was presented by the three water agencies affected by the solvent […]
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By Paige St. John, Rong-gong Lin II and Sarah Parvini, Los Angeles Times TRUCKEE — In the Sierra Nevada, snowpack levels are running below even the darkest days of the drought, with cross-country ski resorts closed and mountain biking becoming the sport of choice until the snow returns. In the Bay Area, cities like San […]
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By Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazette-Journal A Nevada-based program that’s generated more than $300 million to improve Lake Tahoe would take a funding hit under one federal budget proposal. On Monday the Interior Department published a budget brief that includes a proposal to take $230 million from the Southern Nevada Public Land Management Act over the next […]
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By Cathy Locke, Sacramento Bee A suspicious death reported Sunday in Tahoma has been ruled a homicide, and the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office has identified the suspect as 47-year-old Jeremy David Virgo. Virgo was arrested on suspicion of murder, according to a Sheriff’s Office news release. The victim’s name has not been released pending […]
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By Hugo Martin, Los Angeles Times In the peaks near Lake Tahoe, the Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows ski resorts are hoping to draw skiers and snowboarders with some upgrades that have nothing to do with snow. The two resorts, owned by the same Colorado parent company, plan to become the country’s first resorts […]
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By Kathryn Reed Nancy Kerry remains the city manager of South Lake Tahoe, but at this point it is in name and paycheck only. The City Council on Feb. 12 discussed her future for about 2½ hours in closed session. The only item on the agenda was “public employee discipline/dismissal/release.” There was no reportable action. […]
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By David Bunker, Moonshine Ink Javier Gomez has lived in Truckee for 19 years. He’s raised a family here, put his children through school, and slowly saved enough to buy a mobile home in Sunset Inn I mobile home park in 2014. Now, that life, his family’s home, and their tight-knit neighborhood is on the […]
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Updated 7:22pm: El Dorado County sheriff’s detectives are investigating a suspicious death of a woman at a Tahoma residence. Deputies were called to the area of Timber Wolf Drive and Alder Street at 12:40pm on Feb. 11 because of shots fired. Deputies arrived and said they heard gunshots “from the area of a known felon’s […]
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Updated 6:30pm: A South Lake Tahoe man died in a house fire on Sunday afternoon. The name and age of the victim have not been released. The fire was first reported at 1:42pm Feb. 11 at 933 Brockway Ave. The fire did not do that much damage to the structure. The origin of the fire […]
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By Sage Sauerbrey, Moonshine Ink It’s been just less than one year since Placer County stunned the North Lake Tahoe Resort Association with the announcement that it was cutting the organization’s duties in half, and in turn drastically reducing its funding. In truth, it was the culmination of more than a decade of cutbacks to […]
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