By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – In less than a year, the Tahoe Keys Property Owners Association has started to backpedal when it comes to being adamant herbicides are the only way to rid the South Lake Tahoe canals of invasive weeds. At the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency Governing Board meeting this week representatives of the […]
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By Christopher Cadelago, Sacramento Bee Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, the architect of an omnibus gun-control initiative to require background checks for ammunition, said Thursday that the campaign has collected enough signatures to qualify for the fall ballot. Newsom planned to submit roughly 600,000 signatures for his “Safety for All,” initiative on Friday, far more than […]
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By Lake Tahoe News Even though the number of permanent residents is declining in North Lake Tahoe, second home ownership and tourism is increasing. Placer County Deputy Chief Executive Officer Jennifer Merchant gave supervisors an update this week on services, programs, and projects delivered to citizens in the eastern part of the county. Part of […]
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By Kathryn Reed A pretty lake and casinos. That combo is no longer enough. That is why Lake Tahoe needs to up its game if it’s going to keep attracting tourists. That was an overriding message delivered this week by those in the industry. Lynn Carpenter, vice president of marketing for Visit California – the […]
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By Alexei Koseff, Sacramento Bee With legalization looming on the horizon, California lawmakers are already grappling over how to treat marijuana in a state with some of the strictest tobacco regulations in the country. A bill from Assemblyman Jim Wood, D-Healdsburg, would extend to medical marijuana a 2011 law that permitted landlords to prohibit the […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE — It’s working. That was the message Dennis Zabaglo, Tahoe Regional Planning Agency’s aquatic resources program manager, delivered to the Governing Board on April 27 about the boat inspection program. The program started eight years ago without everyone being on board. Since then, though, other lakes have started inspection programs, boaters have […]
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By Kathryn Reed In retrospect, having your roommate clean her service revolver when your date is coming over for the first time might not be the best idea. It did, however, keep what’s his name in line. I just don’t remember a second date. Today is South Lake Tahoe police Officer Donna Kingman’s last day […]
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By Scott Sonner, AP RENO – Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval is considering legal action to force the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to pony up some money to pay for roundups of wild horses in the state that have been put on hold because of federal budgetary constraints. BLM State Director John Ruhs asked agency […]
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By Nathan Halverson, Reveal If the rest of the world ate like Americans, the planet would have run out of freshwater 15 years ago, according to the world’s largest food company. In private, Nestle executives told U.S. officials that the world is on a collision course with doom because Americans eat too much meat, and […]
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By Kathryn Reed Millennials are not something to be feared, laughed at or ignored. They are merely the next generation. These 18- to 34-year-olds are here and they aren’t going anywhere. What they are doing, though, is changing how those in the tourism industry think. And if people aren’t changing their thinking, they are bound […]
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