A Carson City man died early Wednesday morning when the 2001 Jeep Wrangler he was driving overturned on Highway 50 near Glenbrook. Joseph David Winters, 27, died at the scene. The accident occurred about 2:10am Jan. 14. Nevada Highway Patrol officers said Winters was going east when he drove off the roadway and onto the […]
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Updated 2:12pm By Dale Kasler, Sacramento Bee SAN FRANCISCO — In failing health and facing up to 30 years in prison, one-time Stateline businessman Alfred Villalobos apparently committed suicide before going on trial in connection with the bribery scandal at CalPERS. Villalobos’ attorneys, appearing at a pre-trial hearing in U.S. District Court on Wednesday, disclosed […]
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By Jeff Jardine, Modesto Bee To suggest Corey Rich of South Lake Tahoe has a bird’s-eye view of the historic climb going on in Yosemite National Park might be an understatement. Our fine feathered friends haven’t ventured nearly as close to the climbers as Rich, who began his career at the Modesto Bee as an […]
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By Matt Jarzemsky, Peg Brickley and Kate O’Keeffe, Wall Street Journal Caesars Entertainment Corp. ’s largest unit is preparing to file for bankruptcy protection as soon as Thursday, the final gambit of a yearslong attempt to salvage a soured buyout. Caesars Entertainment Operating Co.’s Chapter 11 filing would launch the final stage of Apollo Global Management […]
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How Global Warming is Changing California’s Weather and a Bipartisan Solution is the subject of a talk on Jan. 27 from 5:30-8pm at the South Lake Tahoe Library. The speakers will be Dana Nuccitelli, environmental scientist, risk assessor, and climate blogger for the Guardian and SkepticalScience.com; and Jennifer Wood, soil scientist and leader of the Sacramento chapter […]
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By Larry Weitzman Toyota’s new third generation 2015 Tundra (refreshed in 2014) has finally got it right (keep reading and you will understand). Toyota has been making trucks for decades with the Tacoma owning the mid-size class for years and one of its biggest competitors, the Ford Ranger no longer in production. In the full […]
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By Kathryn Reed ZEPHYR COVE – Dreaming big, with an eye toward reality. That has been the focus of a committee tasked with coming up with ideas to make Whittell High School more than it is today. There was a time when it looked like the two remaining Douglas County School District schools at Lake […]
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By Peter Scheer Local government, Republicans and Democrats agree, is the most democratic (with a small d) form of government. The closer government is to the people, the theory goes, the more accountable it is to voters and the more responsive to the public will. Congress is the most remote, hence least accountable; your local […]
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By Jim Miller, Sacramento Bee School-construction and home-building groups Monday launched an effort to qualify a $9 billion school bond for the November 2016 ballot, only days after Gov. Jerry Brown released a budget plan that minimized the state’s role in paying for building new classrooms and modernizing existing ones. The last state school bond […]
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By Mark Anderson, Sacramento Business Journal There may be a duel this winter over hotel rooms around Lake Tahoe. Placer County is interested in paying about $3.7 million to buy hotels from private owners and demolish them in South Lake Tahoe, which is in El Dorado County. South Lake Tahoe doesn’t wantto lose the hotels, along […]
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