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Good start for Sierra snowpack
Submitted by Editor on Thu, 01/03/2013 - 5:48pmThe Sierra snowpack is off to a good start because of some recent storms that brought plenty of moisture to the region. It comes just in time for the first snow survey of the year.
"It's all just good news," hydrologist Dan Greenlee said. "This is fantastic."
The numbers for the first snow survey, this year, couldn't be much better. The snow amount is almost double the average for December. The snowpack is already about two-thirds of a full season's average, with three more months to go.
Friends, family, officials look for leads in missing person case
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 01/03/2013 - 5:46pmPolice, family members and search and rescue teams intensified their search for a missing teenager Thursday evening.In a press conference Thursday afternoon, officials stated they had no leads o...
Report: Lake Tahoe home sales up 34 percent in 2012
Submitted by Editor on Thu, 01/03/2013 - 5:37pmHome sales around Lake Tahoe increased substantially in 2012, with a 34 percent rise in units sold and a 40 percent jump in sales volume, according to a year-end report released by Lake Tahoe-based real estate company Chase International.
Friends, family, officials look for leads in missing person case
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 01/03/2013 - 5:29pmPolice, family members and search and rescue teams intensified their search for a missing teenager Thursday evening.
In a press conference Thursday afternoon, officials stated they had no leads on the the whereabouts of Petaluma resident Alyssa Byrne, 19, who was reported missing on Jan. 1 after she came to the area to attend SnowGlobe.
Helicopter, ground searches no help in locating missing woman
Submitted by admin on Thu, 01/03/2013 - 4:00pmCalifornia receives approval for health exchange
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 01/03/2013 - 4:14pmSACRAMENTO, Calif. - The federal government on Thursday approved California's plan to run its own health insurance market, a milestone in the state's effort to meet requirements of the national hea...
New tax law packed with breaks for businesses
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 01/03/2013 - 3:19pmWASHINGTON - Tucked into the "fiscal cliff" tax package approved by Congress are billions of dollars in tax breaks that should make the new year a lot happier for businesses of many stripes, includ...
Missing Petaluma woman’s friend: She wasn’t acting like herself
Submitted by admin on Thu, 01/03/2013 - 1:32pmSchool starts at new building for Sandy Hook kids
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 01/03/2013 - 1:21pmMONROE, Conn. - For her son's first day of school since last month's massacre at his Sandy Hook Elementary, Sarah Caron tried to make Thursday as normal as possible. She made his favorite pancakes,...
Officials: No leads on missing teen
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 01/03/2013 - 1:06pmDouglas County Sheriff's Office is offering a $1,000 reward for information about a teen who came to the area to attend SnowGlobe and has reportedly been missing since New Year's Eve.In a press ...
Search continues for missing teen
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 01/03/2013 - 11:35amUpdate: Tahoe Search and Rescue joined Douglas County Sheriff's Office Thursday morning in the search for the 19-year-old woman who was reported missing on Jan. 1, according to Sheriff's Deputy ...
Sierra snowpack well above average for early season
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 01/03/2013 - 11:30amChief of the California Cooperative Snow Survey Frank Gehrke skied into the middle of a clearing in Phillips station Wednesday to take measurements for the California Department of Water Resourc...
FBI joins in search for missing Petaluma woman at South Shore Lake Tahoe
Submitted by Editor on Thu, 01/03/2013 - 10:26am
UPDATE 2:40PM: The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, along with several agencies including the FBI, are actively searching for 19-year-old Alyssa Byrne of Petaluma, Calif., who was at South Lake Tahoe attending a music festival and was last seen by friends on the gaming floor of the Horizon Casino in Stateline between 12:30 a.m. and 1 a.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 1.
The sheriff’s office in conjunction with the South Lake Tahoe Police Department, Eldorado County Sheriff’s Department, FBI, Douglas County Search and Rescue and air support from the Washoe County Sheriff’s Office are working to ascertain Alyssa’s whereabouts.
No leads have been generated to the circumstances of Alyssa’s disappearance.
Alyssa is 5 foot 3inches tall, 125 pounds with black hair and blue eyes. She was last seen wearing a black sweatshirt, black snow boots, and black yoga-type pants with her hair pulled back. She was last seen by friends on the gaming floor of the Horizon Casino on 01-01-13 at approximately 1230-100 am.
Anyone with any information is asked to contact Douglas County Dispatch at (775) 782-5126.
A Secret Witness reward of $1000.00 has been established for any information as to the whereabouts of Alyssa.
Reward offered to help locate missing SnowGlobe attendee
Submitted by admin on Thu, 01/03/2013 - 9:17amFestival of Trees and Lights’ attendance, revenue spike
Submitted by admin on Thu, 01/03/2013 - 1:51amReno woman found safe; Petaluma woman remains missing
Submitted by Editor on Wed, 01/02/2013 - 8:21pm
UPDATED: The Reno Gazette-Journal reports the 21-year-old Reno woman reported missing, Chantel Good, has been found and is safe. Still missing is a 19-year-old Petaluma woman, Alyssa Marie Byrne.
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Teen reportedly missing since New Year's Eve
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 01/02/2013 - 5:27pmPolice and family members are looking for a teen who came to the area to attend SnowGlobe and has reportedly been missing since New Year's Eve.Petaluma resident Alyssa Byrne, 19, and three frien...
Forest Service approves Upper Echo Lakes Fuels Reduction project
Submitted by Editor on Wed, 01/02/2013 - 4:10pmA tree thinning and fuels reduction project on about 100 acres in the Upper Echo Lakes area and portions of a roadless area could begin this year, according to a decision by the U.S. Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit.
The project would take up to six years to complete and includes the removal of trees up to 16 inches in diameter, which would be collected, put into piles and either burned or made available for firewood. There is a possibility of brief closures of areas adjacent to the Pacific Crest Trail, according to the Forest Service.
Environmental group wants to stop N. Shore biomass project
Submitted by admin on Wed, 01/02/2013 - 3:00pmCliff averted, it's on to the next fiscal crisis
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 01/02/2013 - 3:19pmWASHINGTON - Onward to the next fiscal crisis. Actually, several of them, potentially. The New Year's Day deal averting the "fiscal cliff" lays the groundwork for more combustible struggles in Wash...
UN says more than 60,000 dead in Syrian civil war
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 01/02/2013 - 3:14pmBEIRUT - The United Nations gave a grim new count Wednesday of the human cost of Syria's civil war, saying the death toll has exceeded 60,000 in 21 months - far higher than recent estimates by anti...
American journalist missing in Syria
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 01/02/2013 - 3:02pmBEIRUT - An American journalist has been missing in Syria since he was kidnapped more than one month ago, his family said Wednesday, less than two years after he was held by government forces in Li...
Petaluma woman who attended SnowGlobe at South Lake Tahoe reported missing
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 01/02/2013 - 2:48pm
South Lake Tahoe Police and the Douglas County Sheriff's Office are asking help in locating a Petaluma woman who attended the SnowGlobe Music Festival and has been reported missing by family.
Alyssa Marie Byrne, 19, attended the three-day SnowGlobe event in South Lake Tahoe this past weekend. On New Year's Eve night she never made it back to her hotel room and was last seen in the Horizon Casino Hotel lobby in Stateline. Cell phone records indicate she used her phone prior to midnight, authorities said.
Feds say delay made Montana oil spill worse
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 01/02/2013 - 2:32pmBILLINGS, Mont. - Delays in Exxon Mobil Corp.'s response to a major pipeline break beneath Montana's Yellowstone River made an oil spill far worse than it otherwise would have been, federal regulat...
Brown readjusts his stand on the environment vs. business
Submitted by admin on Wed, 01/02/2013 - 1:15pmGroup files appeal over Tahoe/Truckee biomass project
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 01/02/2013 - 1:11pmTRUCKEE, Calif. - A national organization that works to protect nearly extinct species has filed an appeal regarding the proposed two-megawatt Cabin Creek Biomass Energy Facility, a Placer County o...
Clinton talking to staff as she recovers from clot
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 01/02/2013 - 1:09pmWASHINGTON - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has been speaking with staff and reviewing paperwork from the New York hospital where she is recovering from a blood clot in her head, the Sta...
Police set up SnowGlobe lost and found
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 01/02/2013 - 11:34amA lost and found for SnowGlobe attendees has been setup at the South Lake Tahoe Police Department, located at 1352 Johnson Blvd. Anyone who may have lost something can also contact the nonemergency...
Peak near Yosemite likely to be named for Olympic skier
Submitted by admin on Wed, 01/02/2013 - 9:50amNHP issues nearly 12,000 cell phone-related distracted driving traffic citations
Submitted by Editor on Wed, 01/02/2013 - 8:44amTroopers from the Nevada Highway Patrol issued nearly 12,000 traffic citations to motorists observed talking, texting or reading non-voice communication while operating a motor vehicle on Nevada’s highways in 2012. Thirty of the offenders last year received their second citation for the same offense with 25 of those witnessed on their phone for a third time and cited once more.
Grants available to improve Lake Tahoe water quality
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 01/02/2013 - 6:00amThe Nevada Division of State Lands has funding available to implement Environmental Improvement Program projects on the Nevada side of the Lake Tahoe Basin.In order to be eligible, projects must be...
New county supervisors to be sworn into office
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 01/02/2013 - 6:00amThree El Dorado County supervisors will be sworn into office Jan. 7."Every time a newly elected official is sworn into office, a new chapter of El Dorado County history begins," Jim Mitrisin, clerk...
Opinion: Time to take action to prevent cervical cancer
Submitted by admin on Wed, 01/02/2013 - 2:10amSnowGlobe a success — music to officials’ ears
Submitted by admin on Wed, 01/02/2013 - 1:57am
“It’s up to the council and community, but my recommendation will be to encourage this to become an annual event.”
That is what South Lake Tahoe City Manager Nancy Kerry told Lake Tahoe News less than 24 hours after the three-day music festival SnowGlobe came to a close.
What was the biggest story in 2012 in the Lake Tahoe Basin?
Submitted by admin on Wed, 01/02/2013 - 1:54amSnowmaking guarantees there will be a ski season in Tahoe
Submitted by admin on Tue, 01/01/2013 - 8:00pmWine isn’t the only liquid this Mondavi specializes in
Submitted by admin on Tue, 01/01/2013 - 5:40pm