By Megan Messerly, Las Vegas Sun A contingent of Nevada conservatives remains undeterred in its efforts to repeal a portion of Gov. Brian Sandoval’s $1.5 billion omnibus tax plan passed during the last legislative session, even as those repeal efforts remain tied up in the courts. Lawyers from a coalition supporting the tax plan filed […]
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By Kathryn Reed The South Shore cycling community has big plans for this year that involve allocating money for trails and signage, as well getting jurisdictions to coordinate improvements to better leverage the limited dollars that are available. Shay Navarro, head of the Bicycle Advisory Committee for the South Lake Tahoe Recreation Joint Powers Authority, […]
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By Kathryn Reed Marjorie Johnson Springmeyer, pioneer, activist, environmentalist and vocal advocate for justice, died Jan. 28, 2016. She was 93. Mrs. Springmeyer had been ill for a number of years. She was born July 23, 1922, in Gardnerville. Her mother, Stella Van Dyke, moved to the Carson Valley from Ohio to teach at Douglas […]
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By Kathryn Reed A lease or outright ownership of the senior center. That’s what South Lake Tahoe and El Dorado County officials are tasked with negotiating. City Manager Nancy Kerry, all city councilmembers except JoAnn Conner, and Ken Sands from the senior center attended this week’s Board of Supervisors meeting in Placerville. The goal was […]
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By Michael Doyle, McClatchy Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — The U.S. Forest Service apparently overpaid for fighting some of California’s biggest wildland fires and was saddled with too many of the toughest areas to work in, federal investigators now say. Citing expenditures that “may have been questionable and unreasonable,” the Agriculture Department’s Office of Inspector General […]
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By Jessie Marchesseau A World War II memorial would never have made the list of places Jan Potter wanted to see while visiting India. It probably wouldn’t have even made the list of things she knew existed in India. But it does, and when she visited it in the small northeastern village, she was surprisingly […]
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By J.D. Morris, Las Vegas Sun Americans are poised to wager $4.2 billion on the upcoming Super Bowl 50, with the vast majority of those bets expected to be placed illegally, according to a projection released Wednesday by the casino industry’s main lobbying and trade group. The American Gaming Association said its sports betting projection for […]
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By Scott Sonner, AP RENO — A federal judge has refused to grant a new trial for a Nevada trucking company ordered to pay more than $4.5 million in damages to Amtrak after a truck slammed into a passenger train at a rural highway crossing in 2011, killing six people. Conductor Laurette Lee, 68, of […]
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By Anne Knowles GARDNERVILLE — Douglas County is revising its ordinance for solar facilities after two large-scale projects failed to gain approval last year amidst public protest. County officials this week wrapped up a series of 10 meetings with participants from the county’s towns and general improvement districts as well as business associations including the […]
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By Veronica Rocha, Los Angeles Times California’s current snowpack is the deepest it has been in five years — a modest, yet encouraging milestone in a period of prolonged drought. Readings of the Sierra Nevada snowpack on Tuesday showed water content statewide was 18.7 inches, or 115% of the historical average for that date, according […]
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