By Mason Levinson, Bloomberg Sochi may attract the fewest American visitors to a Winter Olympics in 20 years amid terrorism concerns, a lack of luxury hotel rooms and difficulties procuring visas, according to U.S. tour operators. Russia’s plan to spend $50 billion on hotels and other infrastructure to convert a small city on the Black […]
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A South Lake Tahoe resident who was just released from prison could be headed back there. Dismas Womack, 47, was arrested early Wednesday morning in the Al Tahoe neighborhood of South Lake Tahoe. The SWAT team arrived in its souped up mine resistant ambush prevention vehicle, which is used in high risk-situations. “We found firearms […]
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Squaw Valley is offering skiers and riders a glimpse into the past with 1960 Winter Games heritage tours. These are three-hour private excursions of Squaw Valley’s on-mountain Olympic venues and highlight historic moments of the 1960 Winter Games. The tours are led by professional guides who will lead participants down the same trails that were […]
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By Peter Hecht, Sacramento Bee In 2010, as Colorado lawmakers were creating America’s first state-licensed and regulated medical marijuana industry, fellow police officers at a Colorado Drug Investigators Association conference jeered a state law enforcement official assigned to draft the legislation. Some of the sharpest barbs came from visiting narcotics officers from California. While Colorado […]
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By Richard Chang, Sacramento Bee A small gold rush is taking hold in the foothills of Placer County, where prospectors young and old are taking advantage of record-low water levels to search for precious metal. The Gold Rush of 1849 it isn’t. But the real possibility of finding new gold – even a few flakes […]
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By Kathryn Reed My sister, Pam, just rolled her eyes when I told her she was going to be helping me with a new recipe. She’s rather used to being put to work in the kitchen when she visits as well as a guinea pig of sorts. And it didn’t matter that we were spending […]
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Elder Options is sponsoring an educational forum Feb. 25 from 9am-1pm called Introduction to Care Giving Skills. Taught by Roberta Rimbault, this class will focus on what caregivers need to know either at the beginning of care or to develop the knowledge and skill to develop these skills as a new profession. Introduction to Care […]
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By Stefanos Chen, Wall Street Journal You could say that Zari Mansouri’s Lake Tahoe home has views to die for. “The colors from the West Shore are just so spectacular,” she says about the vistas from her roughly 4,100-square-foot Lake Tahoe condo — the same golden hues in Fredo Corleone’s fatal scene in “The Godfather: […]
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By Kathryn Reed The storm forecast to roll into the Lake Tahoe Basin today is not going to quench the land’s thirst, but it might alter the record books. Going into the week, this has been the second driest January on record for South Lake Tahoe with 0.17 inches of precipitation. However, those records only […]
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David John Magana, a former advertising director for Raley’s, was sentenced Jan. 28 to three years and 11 months in prison and ordered to pay more than $2.9 million in restitution for defrauding the grocery store chain out of more than $3 million. The 47-year-old Newcastle resident pleaded guilty in February 2013 to the charges. […]
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