By Anna Gorman, KQED-TV California risks losing billions in health care dollars if the state and federal governments can’t agree on a plan to fund reforms of the Medicaid program, hospital officials and experts said. Public hospitals throughout the state are counting on the $7.25 billion in state and federal funds to treat large numbers […]
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By Cathy Locke, Sacramento Bee A South Lake Tahoe man has been arrested, accused of auto insurance fraud. Braden Scott Leeds was arrested Monday by investigators with the El Dorado County District Attorney’s Office after a nine-count felony complaint was filed with the El Dorado County Superior Court. The arrest was the culmination of a […]
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Stateline’s casinos were the big losers in September compared to the rest of Nevada. While the state saw a 1.5 percent increase in gaming revenue last month compared to 2014, the South Shore clubs dropped 10.7 percent to $21.2 million. The Gaming Control Board on Oct. 29 released the latest numbers. Statewide, casinos won $916.4 […]
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El Dorado Savings Bank reported third quarter profits of $2.7 million, which represented a $34,172 increase compared to 2014. “Earnings for the first nine months of 2015 totaled $8,533,749, compared to $8,606,106 in 2014,” CEO George L. Cook Jr. said in a statement. “The continued strong performance of the investment and real estate loan portfolios contributed to the strong earnings in […]
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· The National Forest Recreation Association recognized Don Lane, recreation and wilderness program manager for the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit, as its 2015 Ranger of the Year. · The annual free Valhalla Holiday Faire on the South Shore is Nov. 20 from 5:30-8:30pm, Nov. 21 from 10am-5pm and Nov. 22 from 10am-4pm. · Kevin […]
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By Kathryn Reed KINGS BEACH – Land acquisition, bike paths and public access projects dominated the most recent quarterly meeting of the California Tahoe Conservancy. The old blue four-plex on the corner of Sawmill Road and Highway 50 in El Dorado County will be demolished in 2016 so the 1-acre parcel can be restored to […]
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By Patrick Everson, Las Vegas Review-Journal Colleges and universities are supposed to be marketplaces of ideas, but that’s less and less true today. While higher education systems champion diversity of race, ethnicity and sexual identity, they’re completely unconcerned with diversity of ideology. Nothing highlighted that better than a story last week from The Cornell Daily Sun, […]
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By Greg Botelho and Ralph Ellis, CNN Tens of thousands of them patrol American schools every day. They are law enforcers. They are mediators. They are educators. This week, a school resource officer in Columbia, South Carolina, was captured on a video that’s been replayed across the nation. The video shows him forcefully yanking down […]
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Lake Tahoe’s first winter storm of the season is expected to arrive this weekend. Winds will be gusting at about 50 mph in valleys and 100 mph along mountain tops ahead of a strong cold front Sunday, according to the National Weather Service in Reno. Rain and snow showers will move into the region Sunday into […]
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Resolution could not be found Oct. 28 between the owners of Lake Tahoe Hard Rock and SMC Contracting, the firm that did the bulk of the $60 million renovation of the old Horizon hotel-casino. A court hearing in Minden on Wednesday was a continuation of the legal dispute between the two parties. Mediation this summer […]
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