By Jennifer Oldham, Bloomberg Tamara Harris and her neighbors are gambling that lenders won’t foreclose on their Spanish-style homes in the Las Vegas neighborhood of Southern Highlands. Harris, 38, stopped paying her mortgage three years ago after her accounting business lost its biggest client and her home’s value plummeted 52 percent. Some neighbors are also […]
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To the community, Bread & Broth is once again very appreciative of the response of members of the South Lake Tahoe community for their support in providing hot, nutritious meals to the neediest members of our community. From April 30 through July 3h, of the fourteen Monday meals servings, eight of the meals had sponsors […]
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It wasn’t always called Tahoe Keys Boulevard. This well known street in South Lake Tahoe was originally known as First Street. The photos represent what the entrance to the housing development looked like in 1963 and 2012. — Bill Kingman
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By Kathryn Reed Former members of South Tahoe Area Transit Authority, Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, and the law firm of Feldman, Shaw & McLaughlin received more bad news this month from the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in Reno. David Thompson, the federal bankruptcy trustee, filed a complaint against STATA’s member agencies in which he states that […]
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By Sean Whaley, Nevada News Bureau CARSON CITY – The state Board of Examiners voted to settle a legal dispute with Washoe County over local tax revenue taken by the 2009 Legislature to balance the state budget. The settlement provides an immediate payment of $1.25 million to the county, with another $6 million being allocated […]
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By Reuters Yosemite National Park has begun trapping and killing deer mice whose growing numbers may have helped create the conditions that led to a hantavirus outbreak that has infected eight park visitors, killing three, public health officials said on Tuesday. Yosemite officials in recent weeks have warned some 22,000 people who stayed in the […]
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By Cynthia H. Craft, Sacramento Bee The federal health care overhaul is a complex structure woven through with carrots and sticks, incentives and disincentives. Physicians get payments to implement sleek new electronic health records systems. Hospitals get penalized financially if too many patients require readmittance. Now, in California, an Affordable Care Act grant is offering […]
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By Kate Mather and Anna Gorman, Los Angeles Times LOS ANGELES – In his 30-plus years as a doctor, Bruce Tempest had never seen anything like it. A Navajo man having trouble breathing showed up at the emergency room of a small hospital in Gallup, N.M. Less than an hour later, he was dead. The […]
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The Tahoe Resource Conservation District wants to teach all boaters, anglers, paddlers, swimmers and water-lovers! how and why to prevent the spread of aquatic invasive species. Asian clams, zebra and quagga mussels and invasive weeds like Eurasian water milfoil are just a few of the plants and critters that currently threaten your local waters. These […]
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Registration is open for the 2012 Tara Llanes Classic at Northstar on Sept. 29-30. TLC offers cross country, super D and industry cup (a team event for anyone working in the mountain bike industry) events, as well as a Shimano kids race and a screening of “Where the Trail Ends”, a Red Bull media house […]
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