By Sarah Heise, KCRA-TV A Truckee man who was hiking with two other men at night near Squaw Valley fell more than 100 feet down a cliff and died, Placer County sheriff’s officials said Thursday morning. The trio was hiking Wednesday night in the area of Granite Chief, just west of Squaw Valley, when search […]
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Lake Tahoe News Publisher Kathryn Reed on Feb. 7 received third place from the North American Travel Journalists Association in the “historical travel” category for her article on Manzanar. The January 2017 story is about the Japanese internment camp on Highway 395 in the Eastern Sierra. Photos accompanying the story are from Carolyn Wright, a […]
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By Kathryn Reed After a marathon closed session Tuesday, it was decided South Lake Tahoe City Manager Nancy Kerry would take some time off. Kerry told LTN she was planning to take a couple weeks off. Mayor Wendy David would not say whose choice it was for the time off – the council’s or Kerry’s. […]
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By Ben Casselman, New York Times Over all, average hourly earnings were only 2.5 percent higher in December than a year earlier, barely outpacing inflation. It’s part of a stubborn pattern that is one of the mysteries of a recovery now in its ninth year. These are a few factors that may be playing a […]
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By Paul Rogers, Bay Area News Group Hoping for a March Miracle to bail out California’s dry winter? It’s not likely. A review of more than 100 years of rainfall records of major cities in California — including San Jose, Los Angeles, San Diego, Santa Rosa, Redding and Fresno — shows that none have ever […]
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A new energy storage system to serve Liberty Utilities’ Olympic Valley residential and commercial customers in the event of an electric outage is proposed for the North Tahoe region. The Olympic Valley Microgrid Project would leverage state-of-the-art battery storage technology to create a new way to store surplus energy and deliver that stored energy to […]
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By Jane Ann Morrison, Las Vegas Review-Journal The Nevada Supreme Court had two open seats in this fall’s election. Now there is just one. Abbi Silver, chief judge of the Court of Appeals, was elected outright when no one filed against her. The other seat drew five candidates, requiring a primary election to whittle them […]
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By Doyle Rice, USA Today The dry times are back. Drought has returned with a vengeance across much of the United States, with the worst conditions across southern and western parts of the nation. As of Thursday, 38.4 percent of the continental U.S. is in a drought, according to the U.S. Drought Monitor. That is […]
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By Debbie Arrington, Sacramento Bee California’s strides toward cleaner air can quickly go up in smoke during one big wildfire. The constant threat of wildfire calls for a radical shift in attitudes toward forest management, not just to save homes and lives but the state’s overall air and water quality. That conclusion spurred the state’s […]
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By Kathryn Reed Marijuana – it seems to be the high point of so many South Lake Tahoe City Council meetings. Tuesday shouldn’t be any different. The morning will start with the electeds meeting in closed session to discuss the lawsuit with Tahoe Wellness Collective. Last month there was no reportable action when it was […]
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