More than half (51.6 percent) of all businesses that responded to the 2007 Survey of Business Owners were operated primarily from someone’s home in 2007, according to data from the U.S. Census Bureau released this month. Only 6.9 percent of these home-based businesses had $250,000 or more in receipts, while 57.1 percent of home-based businesses […]
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A South Lake Tahoe 3-year-old girl who fell out of a second floor window has been released from Renown Medical Center in Reno. Police responded to an apartment at 1801 Lake Tahoe Blvd. at 9:25pm July 9. The toddler was airlifted from the scene by Careflight to Reno. At this time no foul play is […]
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Lake Tahoe News has tickets to the July 12-17 annual American Century Celebrity Golf Tournament at Edgewood Tahoe in Stateline. All Lake Tahoe News subscribers are eligible to win. If you aren’t a subscriber, it’s free. Just enter your email address at the bottom right of the home page. The winner of the pair of […]
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By Dale Kasler, Sacramento Bee Alfred Villalobos might be in hot water over his dealings at CalPERS, but the man knows his wine. The Lake Tahoe businessman, implicated in the pension fund’s bribery scandal, is selling his French wine collection to an Orange County wine merchant for $160,000. The collection consists of 300 bottles of […]
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By Mary Brophy Marcus, Reno Gazette-Journal Some people say aiming to look sleek in your swimsuit or wedding duds is the biggest motivator for losing weight. But Mike Durbin’s incentive for dropping pounds beats all. Three years ago, at age 24, Durbin’s doctor told him he had type 2 diabetes and congestive heart failure. More […]
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By Dale Kasler, Sacramento Bee For nearly a year, Alfred Villalobos has been able to use the bankruptcy laws to sidestep a state lawsuit accusing him of bribing officials at the California Public Employees’ Retirement System. Now California officials have won the right to pursue the $95 million case against Villalobos. A federal judge in […]
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By Ginger Nicolay-Davis On behalf of the nonprofit Tahoe Tallac Association, I’d like to take this opportunity to thank the numerous volunteers and supporters of our efforts to keep the arts and culture alive in South Lake Tahoe. As president of the TTA board, I can attest to our ongoing financial challenges and that our […]
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Publisher’s note: This is the second of three articles from the Amador-El Dorado Unit of CalFire regarding the “Ready-Set-Go!” fire and life safety campaign. By Teri Mizuhara CAMINO – Making sure your family and your home is set for an approaching wildfire and a possible evacuation is the second part of CalFire’s Ready-Set-Go fire safety […]
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By Christopher Elliott As I reviewed my hotel bill at Harveys Lake Tahoe recently, I noticed something unusual: Instead of charging me $11 a day for wireless Internet, they were asking for three times as much. “This can’t be right,” I told the clerk. She called a manager, who firmly explained it was right: Harveys […]
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Congratulations to Ron Zehren, Irene Kaelin and Cathy Vogelgesong — they are all going to next week’s celebrity golf tournament courtesy of Lake Tahoe News. They all know Aaron Rodgers has won $21,932 at the tournament to date. There will be one more opportunity to win tickets via LTN on Sunday. The winners will be […]
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