By Sean Whaley, Las Vegas Review-Journal CARSON CITY — A state panel last week approved a $300,000 settlement with an insurance provider that had not paid a claim on behalf of Nevada to settle allegations of patient dumping with the city of San Francisco. The settlement with the Insurance Company of the State of Pennsylvania, an […]
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Sierra Nevada College 2012 grad Jason Paladino has been named alumni of the year for 2016, while trustee Ben Solomon received the Lane Murray Distinguished Alumni Award. Paladino is a Truckee native and reporter at UC Berkley’s Investigative Reporting Program at the Graduate School of Journalism. This year he earned the Society of Professional Journalists – NorCal […]
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By Peter Hecht, Sacramento Bee The evening’s first customer emerged sleepy-eyed from the doorway of his apartment near Sacramento State for his marijuana concentrates: 3 grams each of strawberry, banana and pear flavors. He had few words for the delivery driver who handed him a white bag containing the order. Their transaction lasted mere seconds. […]
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· Find out more about the South Lake Tahoe City Council candidates via these video interviews put together by TRYP. · The deadline to register to vote for the Nov. 8 election is Oct. 18 in Nevada and Oct. 24 in California. (deadline October 24) NV: (deadline October 18) · On Nov. 3-5 the Carson […]
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The pilot of a Cessna flying from Idaho to Sacramento has not been heard from since Saturday. “The last known position of the aircraft is in a rugged area of the Sierra Nevada mountains southwest of Lake Tahoe,” El Dorado County sheriff’s Sgt. Tasha Thompson said in a press release. “Due to inclement weather ground and aircraft […]
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Most evacuation orders in the Emerald Fire have been lifted. Cascade Properties and Cascade Lake are open only to residents. The 176-acre fire that started in the predawn hours of Oct. 14 on the South Shore remains at 90 percent contained on Sunday afternoon. Liberty Utilities has restored power to Cascade Properties, Cascade Lake, Camp […]
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By Lizzy Ratner, The Nation This Monday afternoon, as the sun hits its peak over Mandan, N.D., the award-winning journalist, and host of Democracy Now!, Amy Goodman will walk into the Morton County–Mandan Combined Law Enforcement and Corrections Center and turn herself in to the local authorities. Her crime: good, unflinching journalism. Goodman had the audacity […]
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By Kathryn Reed Even though millions of federal dollars are headed to California to remove dead trees in national forests, if they had arrived sooner it would not have made a difference for the Emerald Fire. None of the $11 million allocated last week by the U.S. Department of Agriculture is coming to Lake Tahoe. […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE — Zephyr Cove Elementary School isn’t just focused on academics. Student behavior is also a large component of the school day. “We don’t like calling it bullying. We call it anti-disrespect,” Principal Nancy Cauley told the Douglas County School Board last week. Positive Behavioral Intervention Support started last year and is […]
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By Lake Tahoe News Four parcels in South Lake Tahoe owned by the California Tahoe Conservancy are about to be sold. The asset lands policy for the state agency now is called land transfers. The change was made at the board’s meeting this fall. Language was changed so the land doesn’t just go to anyone […]
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