By Susan Voyles, Reno Gazette-Journal The North Lake Tahoe Fire Protection District is asking a judge to stop the county from taking district property tax revenues each month to pay for court-ordered tax refunds to Incline Village homeowners, saying the money is needed to run emergency services. District lawyer Geno Menchetti of Incline Village filed […]
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By Anne Knowles MINDEN – The Douglas County Commission approved an update to the county’s 15-year-old master plan, paving the way for the county to take over permitting in its portion of the Lake Tahoe Basin from the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency. “The TRPA wants to get out of the permitting process,” Douglas County Commissioner […]
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By Sean Whaley, Nevada News Bureau CARSON CITY – Nevada’s major casinos saw total revenues increase to $22 billion last fiscal year, but the 256 properties reported a net loss of just less than $4 billion, the Gaming Control Board reported Friday. It was the third year of losses in a row. Before that the […]
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By Cathy Locke, Sacramento Bee Fire officials are investigating the cause of an early morning fire at a mobile home park in Pollock Pines in which a 68-year-old man died and his wife was injured. The El Dorado County Coroner’s Office this afternoon confirmed that the man found dead in the mobile home was John […]
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By Gus Thomson, Auburn Journal Placer County elections chief Jim McCauley said Tuesday that, early in the election season, his office has been sorting out state mandates and new election rules. “Laws were passed that seem to conflict with what is already there,” McCauley said. “There is a lot of confusion and different opinions from […]
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By Marnie Hunter, CNN Lane Kommer should be skiing this week. Instead he postponed a trip to Colorado because the snow situation just isn’t looking good. “We’ve been keeping a close eye on the weather the last few weeks and keeping our fingers crossed, hoping for some good snow and it just got to the […]
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While visits are down this season throughout the six Vail Resorts ski areas, the company is not downgrading its earning projections with three-quarters of the season still remaining. “However, we would acknowledge that those targets will be more difficult to achieve given the results over the holidays,” Vail Resorts CEO Rob Katz said in a […]
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In light of the recent accidents involving pedestrians who have been struck and killed, and the fact that pedestrian-related crashes in Douglas, Lyon and Washoe counties were higher in 2011 compared to the previous year, troopers from the Nevada Highway Patrol will be concentrating their enforcement efforts on pedestrian and crosswalk violations over the next […]
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By Kathryn Reed Homewood Mountain Resort’s desire to reinvent the West Shore ski resort is an “ill-conceived, inadequately studied, and environmentally-disruptive development project … threatening one of our nation’s iconic landscapes.” At least that is what documents filed Jan. 5 in U.S. District Court in Sacramento say. Earthjustice on behalf of Friends of the West […]
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By Kevin Yamamura, Sacramento Bee Gov. Jerry Brown proposed Thursday slashing nearly $1.4 billion in welfare and child care aid for the poor while holding voters liable for $5 billion in education funding with a November tax measure. The Democratic governor announced his January budget plan this afternoon after his proposal was inadvertently leaked on […]
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