By Kathryn Reed Former El Dorado County Supervisor Ray Nutting is suing past colleagues and staff because he believes his constitutional rights were violated. “The reason why I filed a claim is so they cannot do it ever, ever again to someone else,” Nutting told Lake Tahoe News. “If they did it to me, they […]
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By Daniel Rothberg, Las Vegas Sun In 2012, after several years working as an executive casino host for the Atlantis Casino Resort Spa in Reno and at Harrah’s before that, Sumona Islam took a job with the Grand Sierra Resort three miles away. One problem: Islam had signed a noncompete agreement preventing her from taking […]
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By Jose Olivares, Reno Gazette-Journal While things are looking up for Nevada’s economy, many Nevadans are still reeling from the effects of the recession and Congress must do more to help people get back on their feet, Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., said Tuesday. Heller made the comments at the Nevada Museum of Art during a […]
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By Kathryn Reed Planning – it’s what got Hal Cole interested in local politics and it’s the reason he is getting out. The South Lake Tahoe city councilman is not seeking another term. When he leaves at the end of the year he will have been on the council for five four-year terms that started […]
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By Patricia Cohen, New York Times Steven Oshins, a Las Vegas lawyer who specializes in estate planning, has never met the wealthy software entrepreneur Dan Kloiber, but he is nonetheless intensely interested in Kloiber’s contentious divorce. “I have had a Google news alert on that for a couple years,” Oshins said as he discussed the […]
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By Jane Braxton Little, High Country News Looking north from Blue Canyon near Shaver Lake, copper-colored forests blanket mountain slopes that stretch ridge after ridge to the horizon. The patches of fading green that dappled these hillsides last fall have merged into an unbroken cover of rust-needled pines. At dusk, when the winds die down, […]
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By Kathryn Reed Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care is in the process of getting its first permit to permanently care for an animal that cannot be released into the wild. Emma – the bald eagle from Emerald Bay – came to the South Shore rehab facility last Halloween. She had a broken wrist and damage to […]
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By Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazette Journal A Nevada Department of Wildlife biologist shot and killed a bear near Stateline about two weeks after it broke into an occupied home and made several other break-in attempts. The bear, a 2-year-old female, too young to bear cubs, known as Blue 54, was shot on July 28 following […]
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By Kathryn Reed Vail Resorts has expanded its ski resort portfolio to include Whistler Blackcomb in Canada. The Colorado-based company is buying the Vancouver resort for $1.1 billion. Whistler, with 8,171 acres, is the largest ski resort in North America. Coming in a close second is the Vail owned Park City-Canyons merged resorts with 7,300 […]
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By Kathryn Reed “When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways — either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength.” — Dalai Lama Mark Bender chose to find his inner strength when his life was turned upside down three […]
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