By Kathryn Reed By the time the Bijou erosion control project is completed this year, South Lake Tahoe will have put in an $11 million investment to curtail fine sediment from reaching Lake Tahoe. This section of town is responsible for about one-third of the sediment in the city limits that reaches the lake. “It’s […]
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By Amber Phillips, Las Vegas Sun WASHINGTON — Sen. Dean Heller has invested months lobbying his colleagues to extend benefits for unemployed Americans. In a rare feat of bipartisanship, Republicans and Democrats from Nevada’s six-person delegation have backed Heller’s effort to renew benefits for the long-term unemployed after Congress let the program expire in December. […]
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By Jennifer Chaussee, Reuters A long-shot effort to break California into six separate states got a boost on Monday, when the billionaire venture capitalist behind the proposal said he had gathered enough signatures to place it on the ballot in two years. Timothy Draper, a founder of a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm that has […]
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By Kathryn Reed OLYMPIC VALLEY – Heirloom tomatoes, corn bisque and black trumpet mushrooms = heaven, even for a carnivore. Chef Chad Shrewsbury had guests of this month’s Study of the Seasons: Farm to Tahoe dinner at the Resort at Squaw Creek’s Six Peaks Grille raving about his ability to transform ordinary ingredients into extraordinary […]
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By Whip Villarreal, Las Vegas Review-Journal CARSON CITY — Much of urban Nevada is quickly moving forward to license medical marijuana dispensaries, but patients in some rural areas might find it difficult to obtain the drug because local governments are opting out. Another barrier to getting the drug is the apparent lack of interest by […]
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By Steven Greenhouse and Stephanie Strom, New York Times CONCORD, N.H. — Ben Nawn, a sophomore at the University of New Hampshire, says his friends who work at McDonald’s are envious of what he earns working for the Boloco burrito restaurant here. While they make $7.25 an hour, the federal minimum wage, Nawn receives $9 […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe is about to own a highly valuable piece of property in the city – assuming the City Council agrees to buy it. On the July 15 council meeting the 1½ acres on the corner of Ski Run Boulevard and Highway 50 is on the agenda. It had been acquired […]
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By Sam Stanton, Sacramento Bee In recent months, as California officials started to calculate the fire danger posed by the state’s prolonged and historic drought, they tucked an extra $23 million into the CalFire emergency wildfire budget for the fiscal year that began July 1, bringing its total to $209 million. By July 6 – […]
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By Laura J. Keller, Bloomberg Caesars Entertainment Corp.’s largest unit hired law firm Kirkland & Ellis LLP to advise the casino operator on how to reorganize its $17.4 billion of debt, according to a person with knowledge of the appointment. Caesars Entertainment Operating Co. selected the New York-based company after taking pitches from restructuring firms […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – Experienced mountain bikers had warned us the Kingsbury Grade to Spooner Summit segment of the Tahoe Rim Trail was beyond our abilities. We didn’t listen. We didn’t make it. It didn’t matter. The three of us accomplished much more. We proved to ourselves that we are better mountain bikers than […]
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