· Cindy Gustafson of the Tahoe City Public Utility District was named general manager of the year by the California Special Districts Association. · Ellen Raynor, founder and CEO of KeepOnMovin’, will explore the why and how of hiring and working with contract developers, provide tips and tricks, and will compare options using case studies in […]
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By Zack Bradford, Tahoe In Depth Winter snow is a welcome sight at Lake Tahoe, particularly since four of the last five winters were exceptionally dry. But as much as we all enjoy skiing or riding and as much as our towns depend on winter tourists to keep our economy going, there is a hidden […]
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By Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazette-Journal An unknown amount of wastewater effluent spilled into the Carson River Tuesday and Wednesday. That’s according to the Douglas County Sewer Improvement District which operates a pipeline that moves treated wastewater from Stateline-area casinos, businesses and homes to agricultural land in the Carson Valley. Rob Hopkins, general manager of the […]
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Updated 10:55am: The heavy, wet snow that has been falling in the Tahoe basin was finally too much for power lines. Power is out in various locations. Liberty Utilities has had outages in most of Meyers, including the Sky Line area, much of the West Shore around Tahoma, and the Glenshire area of Truckee. The […]
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By Kathryn Reed “We walk in peaceful resistance to the negative rhetoric of the past election cycle.” That is the message a group of South Shore women want to convey as they march Jan. 21 in solidarity with the thousands, if not millions, of other women throughout the United States on that day. A woman in […]
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By Larry Weitzman On Dec. 28, the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors gave its residents a huge, new obligation of about $2.3 million annually. EDC is borrowing about $57 million to pay for the building of new sheriff’s facility on some land off of Missouri Flat Road in Placerville which was purchased about a […]
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By Bob Egelko, San Francisco Chronicle Local governments in California must release records of the amounts they’ve been billed by private lawyers for cases they handled, a divided state Supreme Court ruled Thursday. In a 4-3 decision, the court said the attorney-client privilege — which makes most communications with lawyers confidential — doesn’t apply to […]
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By Lake Tahoe News Don’t drive. That is the message being delivered by nearly every agency dealing with roads in and around Lake Tahoe. This was the South Lake Tahoe’s message on Jan. 4, “Stay home. If you really don’t have to go out, don’t. Even if you can drive well in the snow, not […]
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By Jason Hidalgo, Reno Gazette-Journal A lot of folks decided to make the move to the Silver State last year. Nevada was the ninth most popular destination for movers in 2016, according to the latest United Van Lines National Movers Study. The ranking represents a slight drop from 2015, when Nevada was ranked eighth in […]
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Douglas County sheriff’s deputies made 21 arrests in the Stateline area during the New Year holiday. The department considered the holiday weekend from Dec. 30 at 6pm to Jan. 2 at 6pm. In addition to the arrests at the lake at that time, five people were arrested in Carson Valley. Most of these were misdemeanor […]
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