By Anne Knowles MINDEN – Douglas County has narrowed its search for a county manager to seven candidates who spent Aug. 4 in a marathon of panel interviews, culminating in an evening reception for the public at the Carson Valley Inn. The county received 72 applications for the job vacated in April by Steve Mokrohisky, […]
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By Kathryn Reed About 300 people had to be shuttled from the Tahoe Queen to shore in rescue boats on Monday afternoon. The paddle-wheeler was about 30 minutes into its 90-minute voyage Aug. 4 when it hit a sandbar off Regan Beach in South Lake Tahoe. Fire officials estimated it to be about 600 yards […]
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By Scott Smith, AP GROVELAND, Calif. — Nearly a year since a historic wildfire charred a huge swath of California’s High Sierra, debate rages over what to do with millions of dead trees left in its wake: truck them to lumber mills or let nature to take its course? One side argues that the blackened […]
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By Sammy Caiola, Sacramento Bee Don Hopkins, a former Davis police officer and professional ballroom dancer, is having some trouble staying on his feet. Hopkins, 67, is still physically drained from an early May trip to Mercy Hospital at Folsom, where doctors pumped him with pneumonia antibiotics for more than a week before accurately diagnosing […]
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By Kim Wyatt STATELINE – Entering the Lake Tahoe Outdoor Arena at Harveys on Aug. 2, I was greeted by statuesque geishas, wigs in every color of the rainbow, and a phalanx of tutus, tails and spiked brassieres—clearly this wasn’t a Creedence concert. At Lady Gaga’s Tahoe debut, a diverse gender-bending crowd posed and pranced […]
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By J.D. Morris, Las Vegas Sun In another sign that the American public is embracing soccer more than ever, the Nevada gaming industry appears to have cashed in on this year’s World Cup at a record level. It’s difficult to say with certainty that betting on soccer hit a record this year, because the Nevada […]
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By Michael Doyle, McClatchy Washington Bureau WASHINGTON — Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Granite Bay, now has a law to his name. It’s pretty modest. But when President Obama recently signed a McClintock bill transferring federal land to an Indian tribe in California’s El Dorado County, it was a milestone of sorts. The one-page bill transferring 40.8 […]
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By Kathryn Reed NEW YORK – Voices overlap. Memories of Sept. 11, 2001, echo through the chamber. The chaos, the uncertainty, the fear, the loss. “Regardless of where you were, you were there at that moment,” says one person. The 9/11 Memorial Museum that opened in May is a collection of stories from that day […]
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By Cindy Krischer Goodman, Miami Herald As the temperature rises and the day lengthens, summer slowdown creeps into almost every workplace. But this summer, a growing number of professionals are strategically using the downtime to rebalance. Experts estimate that when vacation mindset seeps into offices during summer, productivity slips by as much as 20 percent. […]
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By Amber Phillips, Las Vegas Sun Facing a contested re-election bid that is increasingly being framed around immigration, Rep. Joe Heck voted against a Republican bid to require the president to deport immigrants brought into the country illegally. Heck was one of 11 House Republicans, including Rep. Mark Amodei of Northern Nevada, to defy their […]
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