By Dawn McCarty and Phil Milford, Bloomberg Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Co., the publisher of authors from Mark Twain to J.R.R. Tolkien, sought bankruptcy protection to eliminate more than $3 billion in debt. The company, based in Boston, listed $2.68 billion in assets and $3.53 billion in debt in Chapter 11 documents filed last week […]
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A 12-year-old boy is lucky he only sustained a broken arm after he rode his bike into the side of a tractor-trailer. The name of the South Lake Tahoe youngster is not being released. South Tahoe police officers say the boy was wearing headphones and no helmet on May 31 at 2pm when the accident […]
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By Jon Ortiz, Sacramento Bee With California voters poised to vote next week on a tobacco tax hike, a new federal study concludes that the state has used relatively little of the billions of dollars in tobacco money it already takes in to prevent kids from smoking or to help smokers quit. Between 1998 and […]
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By Scott Sonner, AP Rare woodpecker chicks in burned forest stands at Lake Tahoe won’t survive if the U.S. Forest Service proceeds with a contentious post-fire logging project, according to conservationists pressing the agency to postpone cutting around the trees until after the nesting season in August. The John Muir Project is asking for the […]
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All the commotion May 30 at the Horizon casino was because a front desk clerk received a call from a man who said he was going to shoot himself because his girlfriend had discovered naked pictures of him with children. “Our deputies responded and checked all the occupied rooms at the hotel just to make […]
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By Kevin Yamamura, Sacramento Bee Gov. Jerry Brown tucked provisions into his budget that would limit payouts in wildfire liability cases, potentially saving timber companies and other major California landowners hundreds of millions of dollars as federal prosecutors pursue record-high damages in court. The Democratic governor also asked lawmakers to impose a 1 percent lumber […]
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By Kathryn Reed If the loop road project were completed, will a section of South Lake Tahoe become a ghost town as drivers avoid a significant commercial segment of town, or will it stimulate the economy? If Highway 50 and city streets in the Stateline area were left as they are, will this be good […]
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Nancy Kerry will be city manager of South Lake Tahoe at least until Oct. 1. The City Council at a special meeting Tuesday night voted 4-1 to put Kerry, who is current assistant city manager until Tony O’Rourke leaves at the end of June, in the top job. Councilman Tom Davis was the lone dissenter. […]
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By Denny Walsh, Sacramento Bee The El Dorado County judiciary’s penchant for doing things its own way has run afoul of a state appeals court. The bottom-line question before the higher court was: Can judges ignore a law they don’t like and make their own rule? A resounding “No” was the answer from the Sacramento-based […]
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In 1986, when the Humvee was brand new, the price was $173,000. In 2012, the used Humvee cost the South Lake Tahoe Police Department zero dollars. It came to the department from the military. South Side Auto Body painted it for free. Some cash will be put out by the department to equip it the […]
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