People on the North Shore of Lake Tahoe were shaking Friday night when a 4.2 earthquake was recorded at 8:42pm. The epicenter was near Incline Village. Six aftershocks ranging from 1.4 to 2.1 had been recorded by the U.S. Geological Service as of 10:46pm June 22. People as far away as Sacramento felt the quake. […]
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A death in South Lake Tahoe on Friday is related to the homicide on Wednesday. South Tahoe officers found Aaron Fisher, 41, hanging from a tree behind the Raley’s near Stateline. He is the husband of Lyar Fisher-Bomediano, 43, of South Lake Tahoe who was found dead in the Lone Pine Lodge near the state […]
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By Sean Whaley, Nevada News Bureau CARSON CITY – The financial health of Nevada’s public employee pension plan is cause for serious concern because it is only 70 percent funded as of fiscal year 2010 with a $10 billion gap, a national organization reported this week. The Pew Center on the States said the funding […]
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South Lake Tahoe attorney Alfred Nash Villalobos was sentenced Thursday to three years in prison. The 46-year-old could have been sent away for 30 years after being convicted in August 2011 on federal extortion and obstruction of justice charges. Villalobos is the son of Alfred J.R. Villalobos of Stateline, a former director on the board […]
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By David Siders, Sacramento Bee Gov. Jerry Brown urged state regulators this week to reduce the prevalence of chemical flame retardants in household furniture, joining a growing number of critics who argue the chemicals are toxic and unnecessary. “Toxic flame retardants are found in everything from high chairs to couches and a growing body of […]
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By Kathryn Reed With some areas of the Angora burn having lost 100 percent of its trees, human assistance was needed to restore what a human was ultimately responsible for destroying. Replanting of mostly Jeffery pines was what the California Tahoe Conservancy chose. The state agency owns about 90 acres of the nearly 3,100 acres […]
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By Michael Cooper, New York Times Throughout the Great Recession and the not-so-great recovery, the most commonly discussed measure of misery has been unemployment. But many middle-class and working-class people who are fortunate enough to have work are struggling as well, which is why Sherry Woods, a 59-year-old van driver from Atlanta, found herself standing […]
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By Carlos Alcalá, Sacramento Bee Former Placerville Mayor Dave Machado has resigned his seat on the City Council, effective immediately. Machado has been under a legal cloud since the El Dorado County District Attorney filed felony and misdemeanor charges against him in August, when he was still mayor. Machado submitted his resignation Tuesday, addressed to […]
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By Travel News World leaders at the G20 summit in Mexico have for the first time recognised the importance of tourism as a driver of jobs, growth and economic recovery. The Leaders’ Declaration from the annual meeting, this year held in Los Cabos, stated: “We recognise the role of travel and tourism as a vehicle […]
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By Sarah Max, CNN Money This winter, when temperatures outside his home in upstate New York were dipping into the single digits, Larry Posselt, a small-business owner and father of three, paid $99,000 in cash for a three-bedroom, three-bath Florida townhouse eight miles from Disney World. After years of decline, “prices in the area were […]
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