The Washoe County Sheriff’s Office has received dozens of calls from the public reporting telephone scams involving aggressive and threatening criminals impersonating IRS agents. According to the IRS, there are five things scammers often do, but the IRS will never do: The IRS will never: Call to demand immediate payment, nor will the agency call […]
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By Hadley Malcolm, USA Today RadioShack is on the comeback trail, and its first appeal to holiday shoppers comes Nov. 25, when the electronics retailer plans to run its Black Friday deals a day before any other major chain. Stores will feature nearly 100 different deals, and stay open an hour later than normal on […]
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By Scott Mayerowitz, AP A stronger economy and lower gas prices mean Thanksgiving travelers can expect more congested highways this year. During the long holiday weekend, 46.9 million Americans are expected to go 50 miles or more from home, the highest number since 2007, according to travel agency and car lobbying group AAA. That would […]
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By Melody Petersen, Los Angeles Times Experts have warned for years that the state’s largest public pension plan has overestimated how much its investments will earn, leaving taxpayers to pay billions of dollars more than expected. Now the board of the California Public Employees’ Retirement System is reconsidering. As soon as today, the fund’s board […]
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NV Energy customers can expect their rates to go down starting Jan. 1. The company, which provides electricity to people on the Nevada side of the Lake Tahoe Bain, filed a request with the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada on Nov. 13 to reduce rates. Residential customers using 758 kilowatt-hours a month will see a […]
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There will be a Thanksgiving Dutch oven cooking demonstration at Mormon Station State Historic Park in Genoa on Nov. 21. Park rangers will be cooking up a special Thanksgiving dish that onlookers will get to sample. Learn the basics of Dutch oven cooking and how pioneers used the same cast iron techniques to cook meals […]
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By Ian Whitaker, Las Vegas Sun As lawyers duke it out over the constitutionality of Nevada’s landmark education savings account program and state officials iron out much-needed regulations, a major question facing ESAs has been who will do the work of building the robust public support the program needs to be successful in the long […]
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By Kathryn Reed INCLINE VILLAGE – The Tahoe Transportation District board might take over BlueGo, the South Shore bus service, instead of relying on a third party. When George Fink with TTD last week told the board going this route would give “the board more control”, board member Nancy McDermid, replied, “Been there, done that.” She […]
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To the community, The HEROs from Harrah’s and Harveys lived up to their name and mission by hosting a Bread & Broth dinner on Oct. 26. HEROs, a Caesar Entertainment employee organization, is committed to having members volunteer at charitable causes and give back to their community. Through their generosity they are heroes to those […]
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The show will still go on despite a fire in Lake Tahoe Community College’s theater. A spotlight on the catwalk caught fire Tuesday night. “The only thing damaged is the spotlight. Everybody is safe,” LTCC President Kindred Murillo told Lake Tahoe News. “We are working to get everything fixed up again.” LTCC is in the […]
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