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Placer Sheriff tribute, lowered flags mark National Police Week

  Lowered flags Wednesday and the presence of a new name of a long-ago Placer County sheriff on the California Peace Officer Memorial Monument in Sacramento are part of a sho ...

Highway 89 work to resume on Lake Tahoe’s west shore

  With weather permitting, work by the California Department of Transportation and Southwest Gas is set to resume this week along Highway 89 on Lake Tahoe’s West Shore ...

Nevada gov. favors threat to leave Tahoe Compact

  CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval favors keeping alive the threat to leave the bi-state Tahoe Compact.   Sandoval's appointee to ...

Prescribed fire operations begin on Lake Tahoe’s west shore

The U.S. Forest Service’s fuels management crews started prescribed fire operations near the Meeks Bay area today. Crews expect to burn approximately 30 acres near Meeks Mea ...

Reader Input: No words to describe family’s gratitude

Last week our only child (adult) was missing in King’s Beach. It was a few days before Christmas and he had uncharacteristically not responded to urgent calls or emails regar ...

High hopes come with early start to Lake Tahoe ski season

  After late starts to back-to-back seasons, skiers and snowboarders are abuzz about the early beginning to this year out on the slopes at Lake Tahoe. With Boreal, Northstar ...

There is more than one way to hunt fall turkeys for success

After last week’s column announcing the opening of some bird seasons, including turkeys, one reader a few years ago was quick to inform me there is an alternate method of hun ...

Placer County scuttles Lake Tahoe biomass plant effort

Placer County has pulled the plug on any plans to build a biomass power plant at Kings Beach on Lake Tahoe’s north shore. The plant was rejected by the Tahoe Regional Planning A ...

Could Lake Tahoe’s Amgen bike race bid wash Auburn’s away?

Lake Tahoe is making a bold move for both the first and second legs of next May’s Amgen Tour of California. And that puts a big question mark on whether Auburn will be along for ...

Beauty or the bucks?

Is the price to keep Tahoe blue too high? A $1.2-billion estimate for getting Lake Tahoe closer to its original blue is being met with little enthusiasm by Placer County governmen ...