A Carson City woman has been charged with four felonies related to the accident last summer near Cave Rock that killed a woman from Thailand. The preliminary hearing for Kimberly Ann Davis, 40, is scheduled for Feb. 15 in Douglas County. Charges include driving a vehicle while under the influence of alcohol causing death and […]
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A quick moving storm is set to blow through the region today into Monday. Expect temperatures to drop and snow to fall. Snow levels are likely to reach the Carson and Reno areas as well. The wind is expected to pick up before the moisture arrives in Tahoe. A lake wind advisory is in effect […]
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By Adam Ashton, Sacramento Bee One of the state’s largest charter school organizations is exploring whether it wants to withdraw from CalPERS, raising alarms among unions and public pension officials who fear a gradual weakening of the fund. Aspire Public Schools, which operates 36 schools in California, opened talks with the California Public Employees’ Retirement […]
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By Don Thompson, AP A man in the United States illegally was convicted Friday of killing two Northern California deputies in a case that helped fuel the national immigration debate. Luis Bracamontes was found guilty of murder in the shootings of Sacramento County sheriff’s Deputy Danny Oliver and Placer County sheriff’s Detective Michael Davis Jr. […]
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By Mark Fogarty, High Country News Last year, in Yreka, a town of 8,000 in Northern California’s Shasta Valley, Sarah Abono, a member of the Karuk Tribe, moved into a four-bedroom house in a new development on tribal land. She, her husband and three children, who had been living in a modest unit nearby, are […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe city officials appear to be operating in a vacuum of lawlessness and deceit, and with no transparency. A special City Council meeting has been scheduled for Feb. 12 at 9am. The only item on the agenda is in closed session: Public employee discipline/dismissal/release. The council is only in charge […]
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By Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle As relentless sunshine continued to pound California on Thursday, the Sierra Nevada hit a reckoning point: There’s less snowpack now than on the same date three years ago, when the winter went down as the driest in recorded history and sent shudders through cities, farmlands and the state Capitol. […]
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The Placer County Board of Supervisors this week approved an agreement that could result in the development of the first new hotel in Kings Beach in decades. In a 4-0 vote, the board approved a $3 million purchase and sale agreement with developer Kings Beach Center LLC, represented by Craig Clark, to redevelop Placer County’s […]
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By Brad Branan, Sacramento Bee California’s top cannabis regulator said the state deserves credit for a successful rollout of retail marijuana sales, but acknowledged that significant issues loom in the near future. One month after the start of recreational marijuana sales, Lori Ajax, chief of the state Bureau of Cannabis Control, gave an assessment of […]
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By Emily Cadei, Sacramento Bee Washington Forestry experts have a dire warning for California: the conditions are ripe for more catastrophic fire seasons like the one last fall. And an arcane federal funding arrangement is making it a lot harder for forestry officials to do something about it. Instead of fixing the problem, however, Congress […]
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