By Matt Stevens, Los Angeles Times For the last several months, officials from the Federal Emergency Management Agency have sounded a lot more like salesmen than bureaucrats. And their sales pitch for flood insurance — which harps on the dangers of El Niño while espousing the benefits of protecting your property — has largely worked. […]
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· The South Lake Tahoe Recreation Facilities Joint Powers Authority is seeking applicants to fill three positions on the Bicycle Advisory Committee. The deadline to apply is Jan. 22 at 5pm. For an application, call 530.542.6006 or email eapalazzo@cityofslt.us. · East West Resorts is officially rebranding to East West Destination Hospitality. Celebrating its 30th anniversary […]
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An El Dorado County fire chief is back behind bars — this time on domestic violence charges. Garden Valley Fire Chief William Dekker was arrested early Jan. 13. Bail was set at $7,500. Dekker, 60, was arrested in December on driving under the influence charges. On Dec. 22 the district announced that Dekker had resigned and […]
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On Wednesday morning, Dec. 23, 2015, my wife and best friend, Charlene Middlebrook, lost her long and courageous battle with cancer. As with everything she did, Charlene handled the cancer and a subsequent stroke, with grace, courage, total resolve and of course her humor and her smile, once again being the hero in our family. […]
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By Kathryn Reed Luxurious, high-end housing on the shores of Lake Tahoe designed to be second or third homes for the wealthy – presumably from the Bay Area – is set to break ground in summer 2016. The project isn’t new. It’s been stalled because of the economy and the inability of the developers to […]
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By Brian Alexander, Outside After enough pleading and promises to make a desperate boyfriend seem hard to get, the International Olympic Committee thought it had the final list of candidates that would compete to host the 2024 Summer Olympics: Paris, Rome, Hamburg, Budapest, and—a last-minute substitute for Boston—Los Angeles. But then, late last year, Hamburg […]
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By Steve Twedt, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Unlimited vacation time sounds like a pretty good job perk. This year, social media site LinkedIn joined the still-small-but-growing roster of companies offering employees as much time off as they’d like, with the understanding that the coupon is good only if they get their work done. Estimates about how many […]
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By Gerry Smith, BlombergNews Time Warner Inc.’s strategy against Netflix is taking shape. Hoping to keep viewers who are dropping cable subscriptions for online streaming services, Time Warner is negotiating to make full seasons of more shows available to pay-TV customers on demand, according to Time Warner Chief Financial Officer Howard Averill. Time Warner’s cable […]
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By USSA FLACHAU, Austria – Veteran Resi Stiegler led the U.S. team in a night of firsts at the Audi FIS Ski World Cup slalom Tuesday night, taking 15. But under the lights, it was a pair of young U.S. Ski Team members that shined, with Paula Moltzan (Lakeville, Minn.) and Lila Lapanja (Incline Village) […]
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By Paul Rogers, San Jose Mercury News Now that 2016 has gotten off to a wet start, with a series of El Niño storms drenching California in recent days, the question is turning up with increasing frequency at dinner parties and coffee shops: “How will we know when the drought is over?” The answer, water […]
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