By Ed Joyce, Capital Public Radio The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said the drought that started in 2011 in California will linger into summer. NOAA reports that after nearly four years of drought, the California water deficit can only be made up by “epic amounts of rain and snow” and that isn’t likely to […]
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By Will Evans, Center for Investigative Reporting Not many workers can rack up almost two years of paid vacation time. Yet two California state officials have done just that and stand to cash out their vacation for hundreds of thousands of dollars when they quit or retire. They are the top vacation hoarders in a […]
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By Kathryn Reed Restoring the health of six meadows in the Lake Tahoe Basin is the goal of a project the U.S. Forest Service wants to undertake starting this summer. The agency is seeking comments on the environmental documents through the first week of February. Two options are part of the environmental assessment – do […]
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By Kathryn Reed Chemicals – some of them banned substances in California – are flowing into streams, trees are being cut down without a permit, garbage is strewn about, human waste is not properly disposed of and the soil is so contaminated nothing may grow there again. This is going on throughout California as people […]
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By Howard Stutz, Las Vegas Review-Journal Caesars Entertainment Corp. placed its largest operating division into bankruptcy Thursday, taking the initial steps to eliminate almost $10 billion of debt and restructure the casino operator’s troubled balance sheet. The pre-packaged filing covering Caesars Entertainment Operating Co., has been agreed upon by 80 percent of the company’s senior […]
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By Kathryn Reed Counting the number of people in shelters has been going on for years. This is the first year communities are required by the Department of Housing and Urban Development to count the homeless who are not in a shelter. This means people living on the street or in their cars or some […]
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By Jeff Jardine, Modesto Bee To suggest Corey Rich of South Lake Tahoe has a bird’s-eye view of the historic climb going on in Yosemite National Park might be an understatement. Our fine feathered friends haven’t ventured nearly as close to the climbers as Rich, who began his career at the Modesto Bee as an […]
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By Matt Jarzemsky, Peg Brickley and Kate O’Keeffe, Wall Street Journal Caesars Entertainment Corp. ’s largest unit is preparing to file for bankruptcy protection as soon as Thursday, the final gambit of a yearslong attempt to salvage a soured buyout. Caesars Entertainment Operating Co.’s Chapter 11 filing would launch the final stage of Apollo Global Management […]
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By Kathryn Reed ZEPHYR COVE – Dreaming big, with an eye toward reality. That has been the focus of a committee tasked with coming up with ideas to make Whittell High School more than it is today. There was a time when it looked like the two remaining Douglas County School District schools at Lake […]
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By Kathryn Reed A rash of parvo cases in South Lake Tahoe has forced the city to shutdown the dog park for the next 10 days. The Lake Tahoe Humane Society has reported 11 cases of the potentially fatal virus in the last 10 days. “The fatality rate is huge if it goes untreated – almost […]
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