By Conor Dougherty, New York Times BERKELEY — The house at 1310 Haskell Street does not look worthy of a bitter neighborhood war. The roof is rotting, the paint is chipping, and while the lot is long and spacious, the backyard has little beyond overgrown weeds and a garage sprouting moss. The owner was known […]
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By John Clary Davies, Powder The ski town as we know it is dead. The cause? A toxic combination of all-time national wealth inequalities, wage stagnation, the proliferation of short-term rentals, and too many damn tourists. Unless you got in early, have a family inheritance, or somehow snagged one of the few affordable rentals in town, […]
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By Kathryn Reed Heavenly Mountain Resort wants to cut down trees, move boulders and relocate snowmaking equipment all in the name of creating a better experience for skiers and snowboarders. For this next phase of the master plan, the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit is taking comments on the draft environmental assessment until Dec. 22. […]
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By Beth J. Harpaz, AP The number of international visitors arriving in the United States declined nearly 4 percent in the first six months of this year compared with the same period in 2016, according to data released Wednesday from the U.S. Department of Commerce National Travel and Tourism Office in Washington. Many sectors of […]
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By Dale Kasler, Sacramento Bee Tech billionaire and real estate fanatic Larry Ellison might back away from a deal to buy Frank Sinatra’s old Lake Tahoe casino. Ellison’s $35.8 million purchase of the faded Cal Neva Resort & Casino has been tied up in court for more than a month, and the Oracle Corp. founder […]
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By Kathryn Reed While a uniform strategy is working to bring more clarity to Lake Tahoe as a whole, that is not the case for the water closest to the shore. That is the conundrum scientists and regulating agencies are finding themselves in. There is no magic solution to clean up, so to speak, the […]
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By Ben Nuckols, AP WASHINGTON — In court, all four major U.S. sports leagues are fighting New Jersey’s challenge to the federal ban on sports gambling, which the Supreme Court will hear next month. Outside of court, leaders of three of the four leagues have made public comments that suggest they wouldn’t mind losing the […]
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By Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle The early bird not only gets the worm, but may stand a better chance of riding out global warming. A study finds that birds in California are breeding up to 12 days earlier than they did a century ago, an apparent effort to maintain their optimal nesting temperatures as […]
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By Kathryn Reed One of the largest rate increases ever requested by South Tahoe Refuse is expected to go into effect Jan. 1. While the respective jurisdictions still must approve the increase, the Waste Management Joint Powers Authority board this week signed off on it. South Lake Tahoe customers would see an 8.81 percent increase, […]
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By Kathryn Reed Lake Tahoe Golf Course’s footprint will not be expanding any time soon. This is because Washoe Meadows Community prevailed in court against California State Parks. Nearly six years to the day after the initial lawsuit was filed in Alameda Superior Court, the First District Court of Appeal this month upheld the lower […]
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