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South Lake Tahoe, Calif. – Someone’s stealing copper from Forest Service facilities on the South Shore, and the agency’s turning to the public for help in stopping the costly crimes. The thieves have targeted restrooms at Kiva Picnic Area, Fallen Leaf Campground, and Pope and Baldwin beaches, vandalizing the buildings in their attempts to access the copper pipes in the plumbing and sell them for scrap metal. Several of the restrooms had been newly constructed over the past few years.

A federal judge has upheld a decision preventing proposed development at Homewood Mountain Resort from moving forward until a downsized project gets a closer look.Late last month U.S. District C...

Nevada's government will be hit to the tune of $38.6 million this federal fiscal year if Congress doesn't avoid sequestration, Gov. Brian Sandoval said Thursday.Without congressional action today, ...

Lake Tahoe’s clarity improved in 2012 for the second year in a row, and its waters were the clearest in 10 years, according to University of California, Davis, scientists who study the lake.

Last year’s average annual clarity level was 75.3 feet, or a 6.4-foot improvement from 2011, according to data released today by the UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center and the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency.

(Stateline, Nev.) – A recent US Highway 50 economic analysis indicates that a completed downtown area outlined within the US 50/South Shore Community Revitalization project (aka Loop Road), City of South Lake Tahoe’s General Area Plan and the South Shore Vision Plan would provide for an annual retail sales increase of $16 million to $25 million.

The U.S. Forest Service reports the Glenbrook area along the east shore of Lake Tahoe is getting some of the smoke from two days of a prescribed burn operation in the hills above.

Crews burned around 100 acres Tuesday with about 35 acres remaining today. Much of the smoke from Tuesday's burning wound up in Carson City and Carson Valley. Today, the smoke is instead making its way across the east shore of the lake, the Forest Service reports.

Smoky conditions are expected to last through Wednesday into the night with anticipated clearing Thursday.

The Federal Highway Administration trails assistance program is offering about $1.25 million in grant funds for motorized, non-motorized and education trail projects. The Nevada Division of State P...

Federal legislators urged the Sierra Club not to delay the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency's Regional Plan Update prior to the environmental group's challenge to the wide-ranging plan this week.The ...

About 135 acres on Lake Tahoe's east shore above Glenbrook is slated for prescribed burning that will begin Tuesday, according to the U.S. Forest Service.
Fire and fuel crews with the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit of the Forest Service will continue the burn through next week as weather allows.

SAN FRANCISCO - A lawyer for Barry Bonds has urged a federal appeals court to toss out the slugger's obstruction of justice conviction.Dennis Riordan (REAR-den) argued Wednesday before the 9th U.S....

Donned in costumes, but without the protection of wet suits, Special Olympics athletes and their supporters will jump into icy waters on March 23 for the annual South Lake Tahoe Polar Plunge, a fundraiser for Special Olympics Northern Nevada and California.

WASHINGTON - Pledging to revive a "rising, thriving middle class," President Barack Obama promised Tuesday night to create solid new jobs without raising the federal deficit. He's calling for a "sm...

A lawsuit was filed in federal district court today against the first significant update to environmental protection standards at Lake Tahoe since 1987, a move that rolls back the clock nearly that far on efforts to restore the Lake’s fragile ecosystem, according to the bi-state Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA), the defendant in the case.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- Gov. Jerry Brown has begun aggressively challenging federal court oversight of California's prison system by highlighting what he says is a costly conflict of interest: T...

South Lake Tahoe police officer Johnny Poland will be arraigned on five counts of witness tampering and obstructing an official proceeding next week, according to a Thursday statement from federal ...

A prescribed fire is planned Wednesday near Logan Shoals on the east shore of Lake Tahoe, the U.S. Forest Service reports.
About two acres has been cleared for burning. Prescribed fires are also happening through the week on Spooner Summit where about 10 acres a day are being burned.
Below is is a U.S. Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Managment Unit news release on the burns.

South Lake Tahoe police officer Johnny Poland, who was arrested last week and charged with federal witness and evidence tampering, has been released on a $100,000 bond, according to court documents...

The Nevada Rural Housing Authority (NRHA) has named Nevada State Bank, “Most Valuable Partner, ” one of the NRHA’s highest awards to a bank or lending institution.

“Nevada State Bank has been instrumental in providing WISH program funding for the NRHA,” said Gary Longaker, NRHA Executive Director. “The money comes from an award by the Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco and Nevada State Bank has been an important player in bringing these dollars into our region to help young rural families go from renters to first time home buyers,” he said.

Earlier this month, a federal judge ruled that an expansion plan for Homewood Mountain Resort on the shores of Lake Tahoe would not be allowed to move forward without further considering a scaled-back alternative with less environmental impact. The Sierra Club, which joined with a local environmental group and Earthjustice to bring the suit against the resort, is calling the decision a victory. But so is Tahoe's regional planning agency, because, it says, at least the judge did not say the environmental review was flawed.

California Gov. Jerry Brown today delivered the 2013 State of the State Address. Here's the prepared text:

South Lake Tahoe police officer Johnny Poland was arrested on five federal felony counts Wednesday morning related to witness tampering and disposing of evidence, according to Police Chief Brian...

NEW ORLEANS - Inspectors taking the first-ever inventory of flood control systems overseen by the federal government have found hundreds of structures at risk of failing and endangering people and ...

Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval declared a state of emergency Tuesday, citing extreme winter conditions in the Silver and prolonged periods of freezing temperatures that have increased the demand for propane in the Nevada.

“The declaration is a precautionary measure to ensure propane truck operators can support the needs of Nevada citizens during this prolonged cold weather pattern,” Sandoval said.