By Chelsea Phua, Sacramento Bee An El Dorado County Superior Court judge on Monday sentenced David Charles Zanon to death for running down and killing California Highway Patrol Officer Scott Russell more than three years ago. A jury in September recommended the death sentence, after convicting Zanon of first-degree murder in early August. Zanon, who […]
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By Rob Sabo, Northern Nevada Business Weekly Big special events such as Hot August Nights, Street Vibrations and the National Championship Air Races help define tourism in Northern Nevada, and the Reno Sparks Convention and Visitors Authority wants to bring more of them to the region. New special events — either homegrown or wooed from […]
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The Ritz-Carlton, Lake Tahoe that sits mid-mountain at Northstar-at-Tahoe has officially been awarded its LEED certification from the U.S. Green Business Council, becoming the first LEED certified Ritz-Carlton resort. “Receiving this award is a further example of the Ritz-Carlton’s continued commitment to innovation in the hospitality industry while developing environmentally sensitive and sustainable resorts,” Allen […]
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By Jason Hildago, Reno Gazette-Journal It’s the early 1930s. At one West Coast university, an engineering professor laments about how many of his graduating students have to move East because of a lack of tech jobs in his area. The area without enough tech jobs? Palo Alto. The professor? Stanford University’s Frederick Terman. “Terman had […]
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By Bill O’Driscoll, Reno Gazette-Journal The word is getting around the greater San Francisco Bay Area about Reno-Tahoe’s allure. A survey this past summer of 1,010 people shows marked increases since 2008 in their awareness of Reno-Tahoe as a place to visit and in their desire to make the journey. “Interest is clearly up, and […]
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El Dorado County Avoid the 6 is having a slew of enforcement operations during the holiday season. The following is the schedule: Dec. 17: DUI Saturation Patrols 7pm-1am, Placerville Dec. 18: DUI/driver’s license checkpoint, 6pm-1am, Placerville Dec. 20: DUI Saturation Patrols, 7pm-1am, South Lake Tahoe Dec. 28: DUI/driver’s license checkpoint, 8pm-1am, South Lake Tahoe Dec. […]
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By Laurel Rosenhall, Sacramento Bee When Elizabeth Walz ran for student government last year, she built her campaign around an issue she knew would resonate with her peers at UC Davis: the cost of textbooks. For days, she stood in the quad polling students on their textbook-buying habits. “A lot of the responses were, ‘I […]
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By Kathryn Reed Most South Tahoe Refuse customers can expect to pay a few pennies more a month for garbage service starting Jan. 1 The cost of living adjustment for South Lake Tahoe, El Dorado County and Douglas County is based on seven consumer price indices. Based on the franchise agreements STR has with the […]
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By Tom Knudson, Sacramento Bee In the soft morning light, the silver-gray mountain of electronic trash did not look especially hazardous. But it was. Inside that massive rubble of technology, with its V-shaped canyons of printers and keyboards and its fin-like ridges of fax machines and coffee makers, was enough toxic material – including lead, […]
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By Kathryn Reed Lake Tahoe Unified School District is bucking the state trend of rising dropout rates. Data released this week for the 2008-09 school year show the South Shore district with a 5.3 percent dropout rate in grades 9-12. This compares to 2007-08 when the district 9-12 dropout rate was 6.5 percent. This compares […]
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