By Kathryn Reed If life is about creating cherished memories, then Bob Rockwell had a full life – even though many would say 61 is way too young to die. He was a character. His friends proved that on Saturday with their stories about this longtime South Lake Tahoe resident who died in November. As […]
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By Sean Whaley, Las Vegas Review-Journal CARSON CITY — Rarely have Nevada Republican voters had such clear choices about the future of their party as they do in Tuesday’s primary election. On one side is Gov. Brian Sandoval and the GOP state lawmakers who stood with him on the 2015 budget, which included $1.5 billion […]
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By Nicole Raz, Las Vegas Review-Journal The nation’s first passenger-carrying drone manufacturing company is coming to test its system in Nevada. EHang Inc., a company headquartered in Guangzhou, China, is developing a drone capable of carrying passengers. A passenger would enter a destination into the drone system’s accompanying smartphone app. The Nevada Institute for Autonomous […]
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By Kathryn Reed Lake Valley Fire Protection District’s divisive fire chief is about to be without a job. Gareth Harris has had a tempestuous tenure as chief. Twice he had unanimous votes of no confidence from firefighters. Key staff has been looking to leave because the morale is so lousy. Finally, the board had enough. […]
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By Lake Tahoe News For the first time in 19 years, a World Cup event will be staged at a Lake Tahoe area ski resort. The International Ski Federation (FIS) today awarded Squaw Valley a women’s giant slalom race on March 10, 2017, and a women’s slalom on March 11, 2017. The athletes will compete […]
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By Jessica Calefati, San Jose Mercury News SACRAMENTO — Gov. Jerry Brown and the Legislature’s top Democrats have agreed on a framework for a state budget that makes a generous deposit into a rainy-day savings account and sets aside close to a half-billion dollars for affordable housing, administration sources said Thursday. Despite a Wall Street slowdown […]
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By Susan Wood RENO – And the doctor worked on. Questioning whether Mary Guinan has fulfilled a storied career in medicine is like asking Nevadans if they want clean air and Americans if they want to be disease free. A notable epidemiologist, the 76-year-old distinguished physician not only served as the Silver State’s chief health […]
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By Jim Miller, Sacramento Bee Affordable housing, a back-burner issue at the state Capitol for a decade, has emerged as a central part of talks on a new California budget, with Gov. Jerry Brown, lawmakers and others pressing proposals they want to be part of a final deal. Brown’s revised spending plan, released May 13, […]
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By Ed Fletcher, Sacramento Bee If Rocklin mom Dana Michael has it her way, her son Cody would give up this whole hiking thing. Cody Michael, 23, was rescued last month by a Blackhawk helicopter after spending three days lost along a high Sierra trail with his dog Bauer. In her words: “I hope he […]
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By Kathryn Reed Call it what you want — Connolly Beach, Timber Cove Beach, Beach Retreat — just don’t call it Party Beach. The latter is essentially what owners of Tahoe Beach Retreat and Lodge would have preferred based on the slew of events they had planned for this summer. The problem, though, is no […]
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