By Carla Rivera, Los Angeles Times After hearing dire budget scenarios of devastating cuts to faculty, students and classes, California State University trustees Tuesday tentatively approved a plan to raise tuition 5 percent next year if voters reject a tax measure on the November ballot. The board’s finance committee acted on a series of contingency […]
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By Kathryn Reed For a City Council that claims it wants change, it is slow to take action to back up all that talk. Hours and hours of chatter is what Tuesday was all about. South Lake Tahoe Mayor Claire Fortier started the proceedings with a lengthy speech about the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency’s Regional […]
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Updated Sept. 18 10:05pm: Power is restored to all customers. ——- Updated Sept. 18 9:15pm: All of the Keys north of Texas has power restored. A burned jumper has been identified in the overhead portion. Once that is fixed, the remaining customers will have their power restored within the hour. ——— Part of the Tahoe […]
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Update: City officials are saying it will be after midnight when people will be able to return home. By Kathryn Reed and Susan Wood A South Lake Tahoe man was taken to Barton Memorial Hospital after being burned while trying to put out a structure fire Tuesday night and two houses were completely destroyed. The […]
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By Sean Whaley, Nevada News Bureau CARSON CITY – Gov. Brian Sandoval will support some level of funding in his next budget to continue the work of implementing a statewide longitudinal data system to allow for the measurement of individual student performance over time. Sandoval, in a Sept. 13 letter to Sen. Barbara Cegavske, R-Las […]
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By Corrie Goldman, Stanford University The inside of an MRI machine might not seem like the best place to cozy up and concentrate on a good novel, but a team of researchers at Stanford are asking readers to do just that. In an innovative interdisciplinary study, neurobiological experts, radiologists and humanities scholars are working together […]
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By Brian Hickey, KCRA-TV AUBURN — A BASE jumper was rescued under the Foresthill Bridge on Tuesday morning after his parachute got snagged in a tree. CalFire rescuers were called to the bridge at 8:55pm Monday when the jumper’s parachute tangled in the branches of a 150-foot-tall pine tree. The 26-year-old man from Canada was […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – The $35,000 economic study involving the South Shore Vision Plan has been completed, but is not being released to the public. Carl Ribaudo with Strategic Marketing Group gave a presentation to the Lake Tahoe Visitors Authority board last week, but because he neither provided members nor staff with a written […]
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Late the night of Sept. 16 someone stole approximately 20 re-election campaign signs for Bruce Grego. These signs were located at various points along Lake Tahoe Boulevard throughout the city limits. Most of the signs had been secured by wire rods pushed into the ground to support the signs, but at least one of the […]
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By Devon O’Neil, ESPN.com NASHVILLE — Authorities say two-time Olympic gold medalist snowboarder Shaun White has been charged with public intoxication and vandalism after an incident at a Nashville hotel. According to a police affidavit, White tried to attack a hotel guest who had followed him out of the hotel. When the guest told White […]
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