By Kevin Yamamura, Sacramento Bee In their first examination of state accounting problems, California lawmakers condemned parks officials Thursday for hiding nearly $54 million from budget writers. The revelation has damaged the integrity of state government and its budget process, lawmakers from both parties said at an Assembly budget subcommittee hearing. “Many of us here […]
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South Lake Tahoe police officers want to question Agustin Bautista in regards to the Friday night drive-by shooting in the Al Tahoe neighborhood. As Lake Tahoe News first reported, shots were fired Aug. 10 into a house and vehicle on Nevada Avenue. No one was injured. In the course of this investigation, police have located […]
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By Kathryn Reed Raising revenue, including via taxes, which would fund recreation; dissecting the workings of the fire department; and prioritizing capital improvement projects dominated a nearly four-hour meeting Saturday of the South Lake Tahoe City Council. The lively discussion among the five, along with the city manager and finance director, also touched on the […]
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By Mark Glover and Richard Chang, Sacramento Bee California drivers will soon feel the heat from the fire Monday evening in the sprawling Chevron refinery in Richmond. Energy analysts expect gas prices to surge to $4 a gallon or more in the weeks leading up to the Labor Day holiday weekend. GasBuddy.com, which tracks gas […]
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By Kathryn Reed Shots rang out in the Al Tahoe neighborhood late Friday night, leaving a window of a home shattered, bullet holes in the siding and residents shaken. Justin Pecsi told Lake Tahoe News he is pretty sure he knows who the shooter was who was driving a black Charger, but doesn’t know why […]
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By Paul Takahashi, Las Vegas Sun After months of reviews and revisions, U.S. Department of Education approved Nevada’s waiver from the stringent requirements of the No Child Left Behind Act. The waiver no longer binds Nevada’s struggling schools to the 2001 law’s key mandate that all Nevada children be 100 percent proficient in math and […]
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By KRNV-TV HOMEWOOD — California Game Wardens say they do not have enough evidence right now to charge anyone with shooting the bear found dead in Homewood last week. Game Warden Patrick Foy tells News 4 they lack any conclusive evidence that would lead them to the bear’s killer. Michael Garton lives along the beach […]
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By Kathryn Reed As expected, leaders from California and Nevada came up with a compromise nearly at the eleventh-hour before Monday’s Lake Tahoe Environmental Summit. When leaders met a year ago the promise was made to both state governors that by this year’s summit some sort of consensus would be achieved. A committee of Tahoe […]
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By Motoko Rich, New York Times PHOENIX — It was the last Sunday in July, and Bethany and Garvin Phillips were pulling price tags off brand-new backpacks and stuffing them with binders and pencils. Griffith is one of five schools in Phoenix’s Balsz Elementary School District. While other children around the country readied for beach […]
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By Sean Whaley, Nevada News Bureau CARSON CITY – Nevada has been selected by the National Governors Association to receive a $65,000 grant and additional technical assistance to implement Common Core State Standards at the postsecondary education level. Nevada, Maryland and Missouri were selected to receive the support from NGA staff, the National Association of […]
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