As part of April’s Distracted Driving Awareness Month campaign, South Lake Tahoe police officers will be joining more than 200 other local law enforcement agencies in a monthlong zero tolerance enforcement campaign to curb texting or operating hand-held cell phones while driving. Special high visibility enforcement operations to cite cell phone violators will take place […]
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By Catey Hill, MarketWatch You’re not seeing double: Your bar tab really is that big. Margaritas, screwdrivers and Bloody Mary’s are among the cocktails that could become more expensive in coming months. And drinkers can’t blame the actual alcohol for that. Thanks to a convergence of factors ranging from weather to bacteria, the price of […]
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Today, the historic Barton Ranch front building still stands unobtrusively on highways 50 and 89 near the Y in South Lake Tahoe across from Pier 1 Imports. The original Barton Ranch extensive land holdings, which were on both sides of the highway, included where today’s Barton Memorial Hospital stands. Next to the Barton Ranch home […]
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By Kathryn Reed REPRESA – While Johnny Cash didn’t really shoot a man in Reno just to watch him die, he has been to Folsom Prison. It was to give a concert. He is credited with making the prison famous beyond the inmates and riots. Every vehicle owner in California is driving around with a […]
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By Dan Walters, Sacramento Bee Anthony Rendon, a first-term Democrat from Southern California who chairs the Assembly’s water committee, is proud of a water bond issue that he wrote after eight public hearings around the state, calling it “an open and transparent process” in contrast to the backroom deals that had marked previous water bonds. […]
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By Cy Ryan, Las Vegas Sun CARSON CITY — Regulations for setting up medical marijuana clinics cleared their final hurdle Friday, a week before and the law allowing the dispensaries take effect. The Legislative Commission, without discussion, unanimously approved the rules written by the state Division of Public and Behavioral Health. Steven Cooksey of MedMen, […]
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By Matt Stewart These days, it seems as though Americans are spending more for college while getting less value in return. The average cost for an in-state public college is $22,261, and a moderate budget for a private college averaged $43,289 for the 2012–2013 academic year; for elite schools, we’re talking about three times the […]
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By Karoun Demirjian, Las Vegas Sun WASHINGTON — Authors of the new online gaming bill in Congress have issued a challenge to Nevada, where online poker is legal, and any state that may want to legalize it. “If you want to have online gambling, then come to the Congress. … If you want to have […]
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• There will be an open house April 10 from 11:30am-1pm to say goodbye to Douglas County Manager Steve Mokrohisky and welcome interim manager, Larry Werner. It will be at the Minden Inn, 1594 Esmeralda Ave., Minden. • Kiwanis is sponsoring a bingo night April 12 from 5-8pm at the South Lake Tahoe Recreation Center, […]
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Mediation in the South Shore fireworks case will resume Monday. Joan and Joe Truxler of Marla Bay, who brought the lawsuit against the Lake Tahoe Visitors Authority and Pyro Spectacular, and their attorney will be meeting with representatives of the LTVA and their attorney. Lew Feldman, attorney representing the LTVA, told Lake Tahoe News it […]
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