By Jason Hidalgo, Reno Gazette-Journal On a clear September day in 2014, Nevada’s brain trust for economic development gathered in Carson City to celebrate the turning of a new chapter in Silver State history. Tesla’s $5 billion Gigafactory was coming to the Reno area, a coup for a state considered an underdog against formidable competition […]
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By Rick Gross A growing number of U.S. students are taking time after high school to expand their horizons before pursuing further studies. Most students who take a year off, also known as a “gap year,” use the time to gain real-world work experience, become more involved in volunteer work or learn more about other […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – Hotel guests in Stateline are going to help fund the special events center that is going to be built on the front parking lot of MontBleu at Highway 50. The Tahoe Douglas Visitors Authority board this week approved raising the Douglas County lodging license fee. Now the county commissioners must […]
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By Larry Weitzman El Dorado County is still suffering from a multitude of management issues from the legality of funding road maintenance from the Missouri Flat Master Circulation and Funding Plan (CFD for the Missouri Flat Corridor), which is evidently waiting for a legal opinion from county counsel, to awaiting new numbers from CalPERS of […]
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By Derek Hawkins, Washington Post A Chicago police officer who was savagely beaten at a car accident scene did not draw her gun on her attacker — even though she feared for her life — because she was afraid of the media attention that would come if she shot him, the city’s police chief said. […]
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AT&T reportedly lost at least one tower in the Emerald Fire, which caused Meyers and a large swath of South Lake Tahoe to be without phone and Internet service on Friday. AT&T could not be reached to find out when service might be restored. In addition to landlines being out, cell phone service was spotty […]
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El Dorado County is in the process of restoring the Meyers Creek in an effort to improve the ecosystem and watershed management. A $1.1 million grant from the California Tahoe Conservancy was the last piece of financing needed to go forward. Another nearly $1.4 million has been secured from the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit […]
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By Kathryn Reed Proposition 51 could turn out to be a mixed blessing for entities in South Lake Tahoe. If it passes, Lake Tahoe Unified School District intends to reopen Al Tahoe Elementary School next fall. If that happens, the Lake Tahoe Boys & Girls Club will be on the street. This is why the […]
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For the first time in more than 35 years Hard Rock hotels, casinos and cafes are being operated by the same company. Hard Rock International this month completed the acquisition of casino and hotel-casino rights in the Western United States, including Lake Tahoe, from BREF. It is not expected that there will be any changes […]
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To the community, Annie Davidson should be the next LTUSD school board member from trustee Area 1. My name is Brooke Martone- Ballachey. I was born and raised in Christmas Valley and attended elementary school through high school in the Lake Tahoe Unified School District. I am now raising two children in our community and […]
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