By Matt Weiser, Sacramento Bee The wolf known as OR7 who roamed California for more than a year is now raising pups just over the state line in Oregon, wildlife officials have confirmed. The news greatly increases the odds that gray wolves eventually will repopulate the Golden State. It comes on the same day that […]
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By Lesia Witkowsky Water and sewer bills for South Tahoe Public Utility District customers will be going up July 1. The board on a 5-0 vote made it official June 5. Water rates will increase 6.5 percent for each of the next four years, with the fifth year being 5 percent. The base pay for […]
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By Christopher S. Rugaber, AP NEW YORK — Private elevators, personal shopping assistants, six-bedroom suites with their own postal codes. Even helipads. This is what the super-rich have come to expect from hotels. For others, vacation now means renting someone’s apartment, a spare room, maybe just a couch — anything to save on the cost […]
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By Sandra Chereb, AP CARSON CITY — Don Quilici has snookered a few Carson City newcomers with bets that it would snow the week of his birthday in early May. Unsuspecting gamblers often don’t know that a sliver of the western Nevada city’s boundaries extend to Lake Tahoe and encompass Snow Valley Peak at a […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – Players having fun and interacting with the gallery – that’s some of what sets watching Tahoe’s celebrity golf tournament apart from the PGA or LPGA. At least that’s how two-time American Century Championship winner Jack Wagner sees it. He was in town June 3 playing a round at Edgewood Tahoe […]
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By Kathryn Reed Sue Novasel and Kevin Brown, as the top two vote getters for El Dorado County District 5 supervisor, will be squaring off in November. They never relinquished their lead as numbers started coming in just after 8pm June 3. With all precincts reporting, Novasel garnered 27.46 percent of the vote (1,135 votes), […]
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By Kathryn Reed Say goodbye to South Lake Tahoe’s parking meters at Lakeview Commons and Lakeside Beach. The voters on June 3 said take them out. This will happen after Labor Day. With 100 percent of the precincts reporting, the yes votes were 1,271 at 68.41 percent and the no votes were 587 at 31.59 […]
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By Susan Wood The women running for the two judgeships in El Dorado County will join presiding Judge Suzanne Kingsbury in what will be a slightly more gender balanced Superior Court. Superior Court Commissioner Dylan Sullivan and Deputy District Attorney Vicki Ashworth won judgeship offices 5 and 1, respectively, in the June 3 primary election […]
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By Scott Gold, Los Angeles Times David Fiori, waist-deep in the chilly Kern River, braced against the current, stabbed a shovel into the ancient silt between his feet and tossed the muck downstream. His eyes, though, wandered to a potential prize — a spot on the opposite bank of the river. To the uninitiated, it […]
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By David Leonhardt, New York Times The federal government’s main educational-attainment categories are fairly blunt. In particular, the “some college” category includes a wide array of people: Those who have dropped out of college without earning any degree, those who have earned a two-year degree meant to lead directly to a job (such as in […]
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