By Kathryn Reed A Stateline woman was arrested Saturday on felony DUI charges that injured five other people, two of them with life-threatening injuries. Bail was set at $125,000 for Hui Paxson, 29. Paxson was driving east on Pioneer Trail near Vanderhoof Drive just after 11am Feb. 3 when she drifted into oncoming traffic, the […]
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By Adam Ashton, Sacramento Bee Most California cities expect their spending on public employee pensions to climb by at least 50 percent over the next seven years, restricting their ability to fund basic services like public safety and parks, according to a study their lobbying organization released on Thursday. The report escalates the League of […]
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By Rick Gross The past nine years have been extraordinary for the stock market. From March 2009 to the end of 2017, the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index, a benchmark of market performance, rose close to 300 percent. In 2017 alone, the index gained more than 21 percent. If you are an investor who has […]
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Animal Coalition of Tahoe’s next fundraiser if Feb. 7. Pizza for Pups will raise money for ACT’s spay-neuter program. It will be at Blue Dog – Midtown in South Lake Tahoe from 6-7pm. Cost is $10. For more info, call 530.400.4766.
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Placer County has revised the application process for entities wanting grant money coming from North Lake Tahoe lodging taxes. Applications will first be reviewed by the new 13-member Capital Projects Advisory Committee. The committee, co-chaired by the county and North Lake Tahoe Resort Association, will evaluate project proposals on how well they advance key priorities […]
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By Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle The T-shirt-wearing temperatures and lack of winter rain have combined to push nearly half of California into all-too-familiar territory: a state of drought. Less than a year after Gov. Jerry Brown declared an end to one of the worst droughts in California history, a consortium of nationwide water experts […]
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The Tahoe Women’s Community Fund will be granting $68,000 to the South Shore Community this spring, which is more than double was awarded a year ago. Applications are due by 5pm on Feb. 26. Grant recipients will be announced April 2. Grant categories: Poverty and housing: Accepting grant requests up to $10,000 Children and youth: […]
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The California Highway Patrol is teaming up with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to remind motorists to designate a sober driver before the Super Bowl begins. According to data from the CHP’s Statewide Integrated Traffic Records System, during last year’s Super Bowl, one person was killed in an alcohol-involved collision and 41 others were […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe is in uncharted territory with having a firm doing its legal work instead of having an in-house attorney, as had been the protocol for 50-plus years until last fall. When Tom Watson submitted his resignation in August which became effective in September, the city also employed a deputy city […]
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To the community, I am presently very concerned that the City Council now intends to not fund maintenance of city streets. Consider my points: 1. Since Measure C has failed, the City Council can now shift blame of our streets in disrepair upon the voters. 2. If the street repairs were now adequately funded, this would […]
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