By Richard N. Velotta The director of the state Tourism Commission said that while many critics have pounced on Nevada’s new tagline, she’s confident the slogan will be embraced by residents and help attract tourists and businesses to the state. Gov. Brian Sandoval unveiled “Nevada: A World Within. A State Apart” Tuesday. “People are saying […]
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By Kathryn Reed Gangs, drugs, the threat of violence at schools, parents who are not engaged, and a crime rate that is increasing. Those were some of the topics South Lake Tahoe Police Chief Brian Uhler, El Dorado County sheriff’s Lt. Pete Van Arnum, and Steve Heggen with county probation touched on during this month’s […]
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Fire safety was a predominant theme at this week’s Placer County Board of Supervisors meeting. In the first action, supervisors approved the permanent expansion of the county’s hazardous vegetation abatement ordinance to all county unincorporated areas. In the second action, the board OK’d an update to the Community Wildfire Protection Plan. And the third action […]
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By Deborah Thompson I have been an animal lover all my life. I have always had pets and love wildlife. When my husband and I moved to the North Shore a few years ago, we did so for the environment and activities. In the Lake Tahoe Basin I feel in my element and am often […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – With a near unanimous vote, the Tahoe Transportation District on Friday selected five loop road alternatives to study in the environmental documents. But what that assessment will look like is not expected to be released in draft form until January 2015. Angela Swanson, South Lake Tahoe’s rep to the TTD […]
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By Cy Ryan, Las Vegas Sun CARSON CITY — By a party-line vote, the Senate Committee on Legislative Operations and Elections has approved a proposed constitutional amendment to permit same-sex couples to marry. The resolution passed April 11 would repeal the state’s ban on gay marriage and sets out that Nevada would recognize marriages, regardless […]
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By Sara Schrichte Donner Summit, like other areas, is seeing some trickle down effects of sequestration. In March, the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act mandated budget reductions totaling $85 billion across the federal government for fiscal year 2013. These mandated cuts, known as sequester, impact a number of federal programs including the Secure […]
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By Kathryn Reed Even with Gino DiMatteo being formally sentenced April 10 to five years in federal prison, the case is not completely closed. Still blowing in the wind is Angela Swanson. The South Lake Tahoe City Councilwoman was caught up in the DiMatteo mess in August when she was questioned, had her house searched […]
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By Cy Ryan, Las Vegas Sun CARSON CITY — A Senate committee has cleared a bill to permit a network of medical marijuana dispensaries, but those who sell the drug will have to pay a $20,000 licensing fee. In 2000, voters approved a constitutional amendment to allow possession of medical marijuana if prescribed by a […]
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By Anjeanette Damon, Las Vegas Sun CARSON CITY — At a legislative hearing this month on a controversial bill that could determine the future of the bi-state agency tasked with protecting the Lake Tahoe environment, Tahoe Regional Planning Agency board member Steve Robinson urged the committee to preserve Nevada’s ability to abolish the agency altogether. […]
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