Washoe County and the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency are working to streamline project permitting for their customers. People working on projects in the Washoe County portion of the Tahoe basin must now submit requests directly to TRPA planners. Washoe County will continue to issue building permits and to provide the standard project review required under […]
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By Linda Fine Conaboy Late fall was an unfortunate time for Bob, a Bernese Mountain dog. He didn’t know that big danger prowled as he cavorted near the golf course close to his family’s home at Schaffer’s Mill in Truckee. Bob was less than a year old when he happened upon, and ingested, zinc phosphide, […]
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By Kevin Johnson and Trevor Hughes, USA Today WASHINGTON – As part of a crackdown on legal marijuana, the Justice Department is set to roll back an Obama administration policy to not challenge state laws that allow people to use pot for medical and recreational uses an official familiar with matter said Thursday. The move represents […]
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El Dorado County may enact an ordinance placing a moratorium on vacation home rentals in the Lake Tahoe Basin. The agenda for the Board of Supervisors’ Jan. 9 meeting in Placerville includes the proposal for such an urgency ordinance. It would mean no more VHR permits for the unincorporated portions of the county located within […]
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By Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle As hotter and bigger fires blaze through the West and yet another year passes with a disastrous toll, America’s wildlands are having a harder time bouncing back. Some spots, from the singed valleys of Wine Country to the steep slopes of the Sierra, may never look the same. […]
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By Angela Hart, Sacramento Bee California lawmakers are preparing new housing legislation this week, just months after Democrats in both houses pushed through the biggest legislative package on housing in decades. As the Legislature returns for session, state Sen. Scott Wiener, a San Francisco Democrat, will unveil his 2018 proposals. Wiener, author of a new […]
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A Nevada inmate on work detail near Incline Village on Tuesday decided to take a break at the Hyatt. Steven Timothy Grant, 30, left the work crew about 2pm Jan. 2. He was located at the hotel-casino about four hours later. The minimum security inmate crew with the Nevada Department of Corrections was working in […]
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By Kathryn Reed PHILLIPS STATION – A major component of the first snow of the year was missing – snow. Even so, there was something to measure. On Jan. 3 the California Department of Water Resources recorded an average depth of 1.3 inches of snow in the field adjacent to the entrance of Sierra-at-Tahoe. This […]
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By Phillip Reese, Sacramento Bee 2017 will go down as one of the worst in California wildfire history, the latest state fire statistics show. Large wildfires destroyed or damaged more than 10,000 structures in California last year, a higher tally than the last nine years combined. Large wildfires had killed 43 people – 41 civilians […]
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By Debra J. Saunders, Las Vegas Review-Journal WASHINGTON — Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., readily admits he “wasn’t one of the biggest supporters” of President Donald Trump during the 2016 election. “I didn’t know him. He didn’t know me.” But now that the two know each other better, Heller told the Review-Journal, they have a “much […]
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