By Kim Wyatt RENO – That voice. Legendary vocalist k.d. lang stole the show at a revelatory concert under the stars Thursday night in Reno. Lang, touring with Neko Case and Laura Veirs, blew away a sold-out crowd with an intimate, powerful performance at the Robert Z. Hawkins Amphitheater at Bartley Ranch Regional Park. The […]
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By Kathryn Reed In a split vote, the Placer County Planning Commission said no to the developer who wants to build 760 units on 6.6 acres near Brockway Summit. Sierra Pacific Industries owns the land, with Mountainside Partners the developers. The development would be just outside the Lake Tahoe Basin. Commissioners on July 7 voted […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – People need to decide if they want the status quo or to make the investment. That was the overriding message South Lake Tahoe City Manager Nancy Kerry delivered July 6 to Soroptimist International of South Lake Tahoe. Pictures told the story as much as her words. A collage of where […]
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Former Lake Tahoe Unified School District Superintendent Anthony J. “Tony” Magliari passed away at his home in Ridgecrest, Calif., on June 14, 2016, at the age of 85. Born in Los Angeles on Oct. 5, 1930, Mr. Magliari, the son of an Italian immigrant, graduated in 1948 from George Washington High School, where he served […]
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By Science Daily Droughts in California are mainly controlled by wind, not by the amount of evaporated moisture in the air, research has found. The findings were published in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union, on June 30. The research increases the understanding of how the water cycle is related to […]
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By Joann Eisenbrandt It took a year for Placerville Historic Preservation League to be told it lost the challenge to stop the El Dorado County courthouse project in Placerville from proceeding. San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Garrett L. Wong on July 1 denied the writ that was submitted by the group in July 2015 […]
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By Sandra Chereb, Las Vegas Review-Journal CARSON CITY — Allowing terminally ill patients to end their lives, lowering Nevada’s gambling age and authorizing public marijuana venues are among the 108 early bill draft requests submitted by legislators for possible consideration by the 2017 Nevada Legislature. The list released Friday offers a snapshot of some of […]
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Update July 11, 2016, 4:20pm: By Kathryn Reed An infusion of cash from new owners of the Hard Rock Lake Tahoe has made the lawsuits go away that involved contractors who renovated the public areas of the Stateline property. The Nevada Gaming Control Board has approved brothers Jon and David Park’s request to sell half […]
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By Lake Tahoe News Change is coming to the Lake Tahoe Community College board of education no matter the out come of the November election. Fritz Wenck is saying goodbye. When Wenck’s term expires in December he will leave with the distinction of being the longest serving board member. Not only that, he was also […]
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By Kathryn Reed CAMP RICHARDSON – On a normal weekend it takes crews 60 to 90 minutes to clean up the trash at the U.S. Forest Service beaches on the California side of the South Shore. After a holiday weekend like today they need twice as long. By 9am July 5, Paul Cleveland and Matt […]
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