By Kathryn Reed The bribery investigation involving South Lake Tahoe City Councilwoman Angela Swanson is over. No charges will be filed. “At this time we don’t believe Mrs. Swanson intended on a criminal act,” Dave Stevenson, investigator with the El Dorado County District Attorney’s Office, told Lake Tahoe News. Swanson has been under suspicion since […]
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• Nevada Chief Justice Mark Gibbons and Justice Katrina Pickering get to keep their jobs because no one filed paperwork to challenge them in this year’s election. • A wedding at the West Shore Café in 2012 is the cover photograph of Coastal Living magazine. • Linchpin Structural Engineering, a Truckee-based engineering firm, recently launched […]
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A San Jose man was arrested in South Lake Tahoe after allegedly stealing a rental car after first reportedly tampering with an aviation fuel truck. Anthony Dixon, 22, was booked the afternoon of Jan. 19 on charges of vehicle theft, vandalism, and felony trespass on an airport. Federal charges are possible because of infractions at […]
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The future of Lake Tahoe Airport will be discussed Feb. 13 at 5:30pm at the South Lake Tahoe facility. C&S Companies is developing, reviewing and creating an airport master plan to address the airport’s needs. The meeting will include a presentation of the master plan process and a description of how the public can provide […]
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By Katia Savchuk, Center for Investigative Reporting Tiny particles of silver could appear soon in children’s toys and clothing, embedded inside plastics and fabrics to fight stains and odors. No one knows how the germ-killing particles, part of a new pesticide called Nanosilva, affect human health or the environment in the long run. But regulators […]
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Publisher’s note: This is one of a series of blurbs about how the lack of winter is impacting businesses in the Lake Tahoe Basin. If you have an idea, please email it to info@LakeTahoeNews.net. One of the businesses that benefits from a bad snow year is a hospital in a ski town. That is because […]
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By Richard N. Velotta, Las Vegas Sun The era of pilotless commercial aircraft has begun in Nevada and the first drone test flights are expected by May, a team from the state’s program management office told the board of the Governor’s Office of Economic Development last week. Details of the plan to grow what is […]
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By Alan Zarembo, Los Angeles Times People who suffer traumatic brain injuries face an elevated risk of death from suicide or accidents for years to come, according to a study based on four decades of data on hundreds of thousand of patients in Sweden. Those who survived the immediate aftermath of moderate and severe traumatic […]
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By Andy Kessler, Wall Street Journal San Francisco’s Radius Cafe is one of those places where “local” is the rule — all the food is sourced within a 100-mile radius of the restaurant. So it’s a touch ironic to meet there with Brian Chesky, the hoodie-wearing 32-year-old co-founder of Airbnb, whose game plan is global. […]
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By Kathryn Reed Based on the amount of vertical feet being skied by people at Heavenly Mountain Resort, it would be hard to know the whole mountain hasn’t opened because of the lack of snowfall. Those who are into keeping track of where they ski, vertical feet, number of days and other stats just have […]
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