By Cathy Locke, Sacramento Bee A vehicle registered to an Elk Grove man who was reported missing in May was located Friday down a steep embankment off Highway 50 in South Lake Tahoe. Sgt. Dan Paxton of the California Highway Patrol said the vehicle, a 2001 Honda Civic, was spotted near Johnson Pass Road about […]
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Home sales have continued to rise around Lake Tahoe, where there was a 37 percent jump in units sold and a 16 percent rise in sales volume, according to a quarterly report released by Lake Tahoe-based real estate company Chase International. Homes less and more than the million-dollar mark experienced significant increases in sales (37 […]
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By Kathryn Reed Deciding to disband redevelopment agencies throughout California has proved to be more cumbersome than many people anticipated and has necessitated the revision of laws and new ones created to help local governments comply with what Sacramento wants. It has left South Lake Tahoe and El Dorado County battling over $1.5 million. It’s […]
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While the definitive reason a plane crashed in August while taking off from Lake Tahoe Airport has not been determined, preliminary data points to the mixture of fuel as the reason. Five people from Fresno died Aug. 25 when the Piper Cherokee nose-dived into a field as it was taking off toward the lake. Witnesses […]
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Lori Zoval, 47, of South Lake Tahoe was sentenced Oct. 12 to three years and eight months in prison for embezzling client money while employed as a licensed investment broker with a brokerage firm in Folsom. A hearing is set for Nov. 2 to determine the restitution amount. Lake Tahoe News first wrote about Zoval […]
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By Steven E.F. Brown, San Francisco Business Times Safeway Inc. finished selling 16 Genuardi’s stores for $80.4 million, and the $49 million of that left after taxes kept the company’s third quarter profit above that of the same quarter a year ago. Pleasanton-based Safeway earned $157 million on sales of $10.049 billion in the quarter […]
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By Robert Rodriguez, Fresno Bee A group of environmentalists is calling for tighter government restrictions on pesticide use, saying current regulations are creating a health risk among children. The Oakland-based Pesticide Action Network released a report Tuesday blaming pesticide use for a rising number of health problems among children, including developmental disabilities, autism and attention […]
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By Melissa Wiese, Sacramento Business Journal Raley’s Inc. says it has handed over its final offer to the union covering its workers. The West Sacramento-based grocery chain has been in negotiations with the United Food and Commercial Workers for 14 months, according to a Raley’s spokesman. The proposal includes a health care plan that’s almost […]
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Barton Health officials are reporting there is no threat to patients of the South Lake Tahoe hospital to contract fungal meningitis. “Barton Memorial Hospital does not purchase any drugs from NECC nor, for the nine-years that I have been the director of pharmacy, has the hospital ever purchased any drugs from that company,” Barry Keil […]
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The auditing firm that Tahoe Regional Planning Agency and Tahoe Transportation District use has been sanctioned by the state because of its involvement with the city of Bell. It had been recommended that Mayer, Hoffman and McCann have its license suspended for six months. That recommendation was stayed. The auditing firm per the state Board […]
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