By Darren Goode, Politico Democratic efforts to push through more than 100 public lands and water bills in the lame duck session are reaching a fever pitch, with the recognition this is the last chance many of them have to become law. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., has tasked Democratic leaders on at least […]
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By Ed Fletcher, Sacramento Bee The second of three female community service officers who sued the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Department has been served notice today that the department indends on terminate her. The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court in July by Nicole Sahaj-Myers, Stacie Walls and Jona Scher, claims the department subjects […]
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Terri Daly, assistant chief administrative officer for El Dorado County, will lose the assistant part of her title starting Dec. 14. The Board of Supervisors have chosen her to replace Gayle Erbe-Hamlin, who has retired. Daly has been assistant CAO since July. Prior to that she was CAO in Amador County.
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North Tahoe Public Utility District General Manager Curtis Aaron is resigning effective Dec. 17. He is relocating back to Southern California due to family concerns. Aaron joined the district in March 2007. An Open House will be Dec. 9 at the North Tahoe Event Center in Kings Beach to bid farewell to Aaron. “Curtis has […]
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A Stateline man was arrested by South Lake Tahoe police officers on a slew of chargers in what started as a road rage incident. A 911 called was placed Dec. 4 at 8:55pm that turned into a handgun brandishing. The caller said a green Chevrolet pickup had been tailgating him until he stopped at a […]
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Neither rain nor snow nor heat nor gloom of night will keep the Postal Service from delivering the holidays. Between now and Christmas Eve, the Postal Service will deliver 15.8 billion cards, letters and packages across the country and around the world. The Postal Service expects to deliver nearly 3 billion cards and letters over […]
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A panel of top hotel executives and gaming experts will address the changing hospitality industry and their strategic plans for 2011 at the Nevada Governor’s Conference on Tourism next week. The panel consists of John Farahi, co-chairman and CEO of Monarch Casino Resort Inc.; Jonathan Halkyard, senior vice president and CFO of Caesars Entertainment Corporation; […]
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About 50 pounds of marijuana, other drugs and weapons were seized from a Stateline storage facility on Dec. 3 by Douglas County sheriff’s deputies. The investigation was initiated after employees of Kingsbury Self Storage alerted deputies about the strong odor of marijuana coming from within the storage units. A search warrant was obtained for the […]
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By Bill O’Driscoll, Reno Gazette-Journal The average charge for a night’s lodging in the Reno-Tahoe region over the first nine months of this year rose 1.4 percent from 2009, according to the region’s tourism agency. But as temperatures fall with the advent of another winter of recession, downward pressure on room rates is coming to […]
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By Jessica Cramer, Daily Sparks Tribune RENO — Products sold as legal substitutes for marijuana will soon be illegal after a vote Thursday by the Nevada State Board of Pharmacy. The vote means head shops, which specialize in articles of interest to drug users, will soon have to remove products containing certain synthetic cannabinoids from […]
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