By Kathryn Reed A lawsuit has been filed to stop the loop road from ever going on the ballot. Jason Collin, director of Home Health & Hospice for Barton Health and likely candidate for South Lake Tahoe City Council, filed the lawsuit last week. The city of South Lake Tahoe received notice late July 18; […]
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Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the July 15, 2016, Las Vegas Sun. By legalizing recreational marijuana, Nevada voters would spark $7.5 billion in economic activity in the first seven years of sales. That’s the biggest number in an extensive report released this week by RCG Economics and the Marijuana Policy Group, but it’s not […]
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By Ángel González, Seattle Times In a company driven by engineers and run by algorithms and metrics, Amazon’s small group of book editors is an anomaly of sorts. But through the Amazon Book Review and other methods, it’s trying to build Amazon’s presence and influence in the world of literary culture. Within the highly automated […]
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There have been more than three property thefts a day in South Lake Tahoe this month. Of the 54 thefts reported, 61 percent were a result of unsecured and/or unattended property. This is from vehicles, residences and at public places. The theft locations include: 17 unattended/unsecured property (usually from public places) 10 unlocked vehicles (six […]
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By Matt Weiser, Water Deeply One thing the drought has brought to wider attention is the role of so-called atmospheric rivers in the state’s weather and water supply. An atmospheric river is a narrow band of high-speed wind that sweeps across the Pacific Ocean, often dragging vast amounts of tropical moisture with it. Sometimes dubbed […]
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By Ben Botkin, Las Vegas Review-Journal Nevada’s largest gaming companies so far haven’t given heavily to presidential candidates or the political action committees that support them, Federal Election Commission filings show. Records show just a smattering of relatively minor contributions to back presidential candidates, most of them candidates who have since dropped out of the […]
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Two small fires on the South Shore this weekend are still under investigation. Without any lightning, it is clear they were human caused. “We’ve had an exceptionally windy summer and people need to remember if they don’t properly maintain and extinguish their campfires or if they carelessly smoke in the forest, it’s easy for a […]
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· Pianist Jimmy Hopper will be a The Loft in South Lake Tahoe on July 20, performing at 7:30pm and 9:30pm. Tickets are $29 online. · The fourth annual Lake Tahoe Reggae Festival at the Hard Rock Lake Tahoe is Aug. 20. For more info, go online. · The Wildland Firefighter Foundation is having a […]
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By Daphne Chen, Deseret News PARK CITY — Vail Resorts announced Saturday that it is dropping its controversial application to trademark the name “Park City.” Bill Rock, Park City Mountain Resort’s chief operating officer, said the dispute had “clearly become a distraction that is pulling our collective focus away from the important work that lies […]
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The Nevada Department of Transportation will host a public information meeting on July 26 to provide information about the Stateline-to-Stateline bike path that will be built over the next two to three years in Incline Village. The meeting will update the community, and provide information on the project construction schedule and traffic impacts. To project is a three-plus […]
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