By Michelle Robertson, San Francisco Chronicle Aaron Rothschild starts most of his days about 6am. That way, he can finish up work in time to catch a few runs on the ski slopes. Some afternoons, he conducts meetings in the Squaw Valley Ski Resort parking lot with a “laptop between me and my steering […]
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By Todd Prince, Las Vegas Review-Journal Caesars Entertainment Corp. said Wednesday that its Las Vegas revenue fell in the fourth quarter after the Oct. 1 massacre, but the company gave an upbeat outlook for 2018. Las Vegas same-store net revenue, including its off-Strip property Rio, declined 3.9 percent to $873 million for the quarter, the […]
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By Rick Gross The economic expansion in the United States since 2009 has presented opportunities for many Americans to explore new job possibilities. If you are among those looking to make a change in your career path, you should know that switching employers can have a substantial impact on your financial life. Here are four […]
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By Kathryn Reed Chad Donnelly is committed to South Lake Tahoe even if some residents wish he would take SnowGlobe, his three-day music festival, elsewhere. “I really believe in what we do,” Donnelly told Lake Tahoe News. Since 2011 he has brought the electronic music festival to the ball fields on Al Tahoe Boulevard. It’s […]
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By Kent Hartman It was 1962, and the rock ’n roll record business was on the rise after the multiyear slump that had followed the debuts of artists like Elvis, Chuck Berry, and Little Richard. The industry’s savior, in large part, was a manic, diminutive, wig-wearing, Hollywood-based record producer (and future convicted murderer) named Phil […]
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An Incline Village homeowner is reporting more than $75,000 in damage and stolen goods from a vacation renter. Washoe County sheriff’s deputies said the home had been rented for a number of days by a couple using a fraudulent credit card issued by a foreign country. When the rental company returned to the home on […]
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By Evan Halper, Los Angeles Times The Trump administration, seeking to force a defiant California to cooperate with its agenda of stepped-up immigrant deportations, went to federal court Tuesday to invalidate three state laws — the administration’s most direct challenge yet to the state’s policies. Administration officials say the three laws in question, all […]
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By Gillian Flaccus, AP PORTLAND — Scientists have found dramatically declining snowpack across the American West over the past six decades that will likely cause water shortages in the region that cannot be managed by building new reservoirs, according to a study published last week. The study led by scientists from Oregon State University and […]
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By Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazette-Journal As a young child from Belgrade in the former Yugoslavia, Olga Perkovic learned to ski on slopes in Europe. As a young adult she helped her husband, David M. Goodstein, learn to ski when he lived in Logan, Utah, and taught physics at Utah State University. As she approached middle age she […]
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The El Dorado County Board of Supervisors has rescheduled the special vacation home rental meeting for March 24. It will be from 1-3pm in the multipurpose room at South Tahoe Middle School. Last week’s planned meeting had to be canceled because of weather and the meeting last month was shutdown because of overcrowding.
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