By Michael R. Blood, AP California’s emerging marijuana industry is being rattled by an array of unknowns, as the state races to issue its first licenses to grow and sell legal recreational pot on Jan. 1. “We all have anxiety,” top state pot regulator Lori Ajax told an industry group Thursday. “It’s not going to […]
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By Thomas Moore, Las Vegas Sun Caesars Entertainment has completed the bankruptcy process, the company announced Friday, ending two-plus years of legal and financial uncertainty. As part of the post-bankruptcy restructuring, Caesars Entertainment has finished its merger with Caesars Acquisition Company and has announced a new board of directors. Caesars is the parent company of […]
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· Tahoe Regional Planning Agency is asking for the community’s help identifying transit needs throughout the region. Provide feedback by taking this survey or interact with officials at a public workshop on Oct. 12 at 1pm at the Tahoe City transit center, Oct. 17 from 5-7pm at Raley’s at the Y in South Lake there […]
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Bona Fide Books in Meyers is looking for submissions for the second addition of its popular “Permanent Vacation” book that came out in 2011. The publishing house is seeking literary essays for the second collection about life and work in U.S. national parks. It could be about time building trails or alligator-proofing a cabin or […]
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By Kathryn Reed CAMP RICHARDSON — They’re baaaacccckkkk – the Kokanee salmon that is. With more water in Taylor Creek than in recent falls, the fish are spawning in good numbers this year. While it’s likely the run has not peaked, the die-off is already evident. On Friday a crawdad was gnawing away on a […]
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By Drew Mendelson The stupefying deeds of the Trump White House are passing in such a blur these days that it is hard to parse the incompetence. From policies foreign and domestic that churn without solidifying, to presidential tweets that seem the products of insult comedians, to an obsession with fixing blame before even knowing […]
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By Alexander Vershinin and James Ellingworth, AP ASHGABAT, Turkmenistan — The future of the Olympics may just be in a basement in Turkmenistan. With leading Olympic figures considering a possible role for competitive computer games — known as esports — at the 2024 Games in Paris, a pan-Asian competition in the ex-Soviet state offers a […]
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Film crews from “The Bachelor” have been spotted around the South Shore. Crews were at the Hard Rock Lake Tahoe on the night of Oct. 2. This is the third time the television show has filmed here. Twice the crew stayed at the Black Bear Inn, now called the Black Bear Lodge, on Ski Run […]
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To the community, I am writing this letter to the editor in response to the Lake Tahoe News editorial publicized Oct. 2, 2017. First and foremost, I am writing this letter outside of my position of assistant director of Public Works of the city of South Lake Tahoe. I have always trusted and admired the […]
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By Kathryn Reed Cody Bass, the owner of Tahoe Wellness Cooperative, is accused of felony tax fraud. A criminal complaint filed in El Dorado County Superior Court alleges Bass filed false income tax returns with the California Franchise Tax Board for calendar years 2012 and 2013, and that he failed to file a personal state […]
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