By Kathryn Reed Every employee in Lake Tahoe Unified School District is getting a 4.5 percent raise, which is retroactive to July 1. The teachers union on Feb. 23 ratified the contract with the district. The classified group is set to vote Feb. 25. The school board is expected to take action March 8. The […]
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By Ted Gaines If you think Cam Newton, quarterback for the Carolina Panthers, suffered a crushing defeat on the football field during super Bowl 50, then you haven’t heard about the other beating he is about to take from the California tax man. Newton’ s“loser’s” share for the championship game is $51,000. According to CPA […]
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By Steve Peoples and Nancy Benac, AP Notching three in a row, Donald Trump decisively won Nevada’s Republican caucuses Tuesday as Marco Rubio bid to elbow out Ted Cruz for second place in an increasingly urgent effort to slam the brakes on the Trump juggernaut. Trump now can claim victories in the West, the South […]
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By Alexei Koseff, Sacramento Bee State Sen. Richard Pan is taking another swing at tobacco. The Sacramento Democrat has introduced a bill that would prohibit cigarettes, chewing tobacco, e-cigarettes and other tobacco products within 250 feet of any game, practice or activity organized by a youth sports team in California where athletes under the age […]
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By Lake Tahoe News Three former South Lake Tahoe city councilmembers and a founder of the city are on a quest to get the loop road before the voters. Bruce Grego, John Cefalu, Bill Crawford and Laurel Ames have filed a notice of intent to circulate a petition regarding the loop road. The loop road […]
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By Seth Borenstein, AP Meteorologists see signs that the super El Nino is weakening ever so slightly, but they caution months will pass before people in the Americas will feel it. The World Meteorological Organization said Thursday that El Nino has passed its peak based on specific temperature, wind, and atmospheric pressure conditions. That’s technically […]
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By Romy Varghese, BloombergBusiness It’s hard for states to fix pensions – just look at New Jersey and Illinois. And even when legislators in California agreed two years ago on a way to keep the teachers’ retirement fund from going broke, it left the state’s finances more exposed to financial-market swings. Under the plan, California, […]
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A former CalFire firefighter from Placerville with a penchant to set fires is going to prison for five years. Benjamin Cunha, 33, was sentenced Feb. 23 after admitting to setting at least 30 wildland fires in El Dorado and Amador counties during the summers of 2006 and 2007. Two of these fires burned onto federal […]
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By Sena Christian, High Country News On a hot summer afternoon, California farmer Chris Hurd barrels down a country road through the Central Valley city of Firebaugh, his dog Frank riding in the truck bed. He lurches to a stop in front of Oro Loma Elementary School, which was built in the 1950s to accommodate […]
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· Truckee Town Hall’s entryway in March will be transported back in time to the late 1700s and the era of Spanish exploration in California with work from Tahoe Expedition Academy students. · Conde Nast Traveler magazine rated Lake Tahoe as one of the best places for a bachelor or bachelorette party. · Fire Sign […]
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