By Kathryn Reed When all the settlement payments are made MV Transportation will get $1,475,965.89. The Fairfield-based transportation company sought $3 million when it filed a lawsuit against the now defunct South Tahoe Area Transit Authority. The company contended it was owed $2 million for services rendered and another $1 million in lost revenue. MV […]
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By Jen Christensen, CNN There are many well-known risk factors for death — high cholesterol, smoking, obesity, and Christmas. Yes, Christmas. Several studies show you have a greater chance of dying on Christmas, the day after Christmas or New Year’s Day than any other single day of the year. This is true for people who […]
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By Dennis Canfield Wouldn’t it be great if we could somehow bottle some of the Christmas magic that helps to bring our families together during the holidays, so we could enjoy that same feeling of togetherness year round? Of course, we can’t do that; that would be too easy. But it doesn’t have to be […]
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By Susan Wood TWIN BRIDGES – Snowboarders aren’t the only ones sitting on their bottoms enjoying all that the slopes of Sierra-at-Tahoe have to offer. The South Shore-area ski resort located 12 miles west of Meyers has kicked off the 2013-14 season with a new twist and turn – a major $5 million overhaul to […]
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By Ed Fletcher and Phillip Reese, Sacramento Bee Placer County’s Dr. Richard Burton was the region’s highest paid public official in 2012, earning nearly $340,000. Throw in his benefits, and his total compensation reached nearly $460,000. Burton wasn’t doing just one job, according to Nancy Nittler, the county’s personnel director. He had two key Placer […]
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By Tracy Seipel, San Jose Mercury News Lynn Engelman still has no idea whether her doctors in Contra Costa County will be on her new health care plan — and neither, she says, do her doctors. Capitola resident Kathryn Johnson has already paid the first month’s bill for her new policy through the state’s new […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – Everything changes with a little snow and some things even get better – like the views from Van Sickle Bi-state Park. While we are familiar with the trail, we were thankful others had gone before us. This way we didn’t completely get lost – just a little sidetracked at the […]
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By Michele Lerner, Realtor.com The U.S. real estate market made a robust comeback in 2013, surpassing expectations of many economists, as the combination of low inventories and historically low interest rates caused home prices to rise and even helped fuel bidding wars in some markets, surpassing the expectations of many economists. While positive trends, such […]
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By Curtis Tate, Sacramento Bee After a lengthy and destructive wildfire season in California, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., inserted language into a defense bill that will double the size of the U.S. Forest Service fleet of large air tankers. Feinstein said that the amendment, which she cosponsored with Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., would transfer seven […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – While the president of Liberty Utilities said he didn’t want to be an alarmist, he did say if power lines are not upgraded, brown outs or black outs in the Lake Tahoe-Truckee areas are possible. “Even without any new growth I’m at the limit with 650,” Mike Smart, president of […]
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