By Bill Lindelof, Sacramento Bee A huge boulder that was blocking westbound Highway 50 in the mountains has been cleared from the roadway without dynamiting. About 5am today the huge rock fell onto the single westbound lane of Highway 50 east of Twin Bridges. A California Highway Patrol officer initially said that road crews will […]
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By Anne Knowles When Douglas County developed a plan to revitalize its economy, it’s no wonder planners looked to the Minden-Tahoe Airport, which already brings an estimated $30 million into the region annually. “The airport is one of the major economic engines in the community,” said Linda Mae Draper-Hivert, a member of the Minden-Tahoe Airport […]
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By Sean Whaley, Nevada News Bureau CARSON CITY — State AFL-CIO leader Danny Thompson said his labor group is moving forward with a broad-based business profits tax ballot measure to raise money for education. Thompson, interviewed on the Nevada NewsMakers television program this week, said the proposal will go forward as a petition to amend […]
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By Jennifer Medina, New York Times SANTA MONICA — For years now, administrators at the community college here have been inundated with woeful tales from students unable to register for the courses they need. Classes they want for essential job training or to fulfill requirements to transfer to four-year universities fill up within hours. Hundreds […]
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By Sean Whaley, Nevada News Bureau CARSON CITY — Nearly 1,000 state and local government workers, many of them firefighters and police, make more than $200,000 a year when all pay and benefits are counted, according to a 2011 pay analysis published by the Nevada Policy Research Institute. The number of public employees earning $200,000 […]
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By Carlos Alcalá, Sacramento Bee As a rule, Superior Court judge elections are, well, sober as a judge. Incumbents frequently return to the bench without facing a substantial challenge at the polls. The race for Office 7 in El Dorado Superior Court is different, with two challengers – Joseph Hoffman and Stephen W. Valentine – […]
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By Kathryn Reed For the second week in a row Kirkwood Mountain Resort ski patrollers were tested. Saturday skiers had to evacuate Cornice chairlift because it derailed. No one was injured in the afternoon incident that took nearly two hours for everyone to rappel from the lift to the slope. Resort spokesman Michael Dalzell said […]
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The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency has scheduled a series of public meetings and workshops to gather input on the Regional Plan update draft and environmental documents being released later this month. The plan update includes five draft documents which will be released at TRPA’s Governing Board meetings on April 25 at The Chateau in Incline […]
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By Mike Rosenberg, San Jose Mercury News Thomas Kinkade, the “Painter of Light” and one of the most popular artists in America, died suddenly Friday at his Los Gatos home. He was 54. His family said in a statement that his death appeared to be from natural causes. “Thom provided a wonderful life for his […]
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By Cynthia Hubert, Sacramento Bee In Northern California and across the nation, wealth seems to translate into good health, a comprehensive new report affirms. But the factors behind that trend are complicated, public health experts said following the release of the report Tuesday by the University of Wisconsin and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The […]
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