By Kathryn Reed The much talked about multimillion-dollar streetscape improvement to Harrison Avenue is not going to happen. At least not this year. It was decided by South Lake Tahoe officials and property owners to push back the project to 2014 so everything can be completed in one year. The thinking is that it would […]
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By National Parks Traveler A recent spate of vandalism has prompted Joshua Tree National Park officials to close the Rattlesnake Canyon area to the public for the near term. Since January, individuals have defaced the day use and canyon area of Rattlesnake Canyon with graffiti. While this started as a few markings, the use of […]
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By Jessica Heffner, Springfield News-Sun SPRINGFIELD, Ohio — A million things run through Terry Probyn’s mind when she thinks about her daughter’s kidnapping. She wished she would have kissed her daughter goodbye that day. She wishes the police would have made the connection between Jaycee Dugard’s disappearance and a similar case in South Lake Tahoe. […]
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Publisher’s note: This is one of a few stories about construction planned for the Lake Tahoe Basin this summer. By Kathryn Reed Work on Highway 89 between Tahoma and Tahoe City started Tuesday. And it won’t be done until October 2016. Caltrans will have many of the highways in the Lake Tahoe Basin torn up […]
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By Kathryn Reed Hear that sound? It used to be a loud bass that rattled nerves. Now it’s the cha-ching of cash registers – in the literal sense of local businesses and the figurative sense of city coffers and college admissions. The reason? SnowGlobe. Chad Donnelly wants to hear more of that cha-ching sound as […]
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By Richard N. Velotta, Las Vegas Sun Virginia “is for lovers.” Kentucky has “unbridled spirit.” And now, Nevada is “A World Within. A State Apart.” State tourism leaders today unveiled the state’s new slogan, which has been almost two years in the making and cost close to $9 million. Officials also debuted the first television […]
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By AP GRANTS PASS, Ore. — A woodpecker that depends on intense wildfires for the standing dead trees where it feeds on insects is being considered for protection under the Endangered Species Act. This is the same woodpecker that affected the U.S. Forest Service’s rehab project in the Angora burn area. The U.S. Fish and […]
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By Kathryn Reed A show of force late Monday afternoon by El Dorado County employees prevented the chief probation officer and others from being found in contempt of court. El Dorado County Superior Court Judge Steve Bailey summoned Greg Sly to his courtroom April 8 to talk about the staffing situation at the Juvenile Detention […]
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By Torey Van Oot, Sacramento Bee A technology long deployed on the battlefield could be coming to a farm, newspaper or police station near you. An expected boom in the use of nonmilitary “unmanned aerial vehicles,” commonly known as drones, has California looking to regain some of the aviation industry swagger it enjoyed for decades […]
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By Kathryn Reed From a 1-star to a 4½-star property. That is what Jim Demetriades is trying to do with a prime piece of real estate in South Lake Tahoe. He is turning the old Royal Valhalla motel into the Landing Resort & Spa. “What South Lake Tahoe was lacking was a 4-, 5-star establishment […]
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