By Kathryn Reed TAHOE CITY – What’s another 10 hours when five years had already been spent on the revitalization plan of Homewood Mountain Resort? For Art Chapman, sitting in a room all day Wednesday listening to people praise and rip apart his plan was worth it. Chapman is president of JMA Ventures, the San […]
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By Kathryn Reed In a bit of a power play, Claire Fortier was voted by her colleagues on the South Lake Tahoe City Council to be mayor for the next year, but moments later stripped her of two committee appointments she coveted. It’s fairly routine for the mayor pro tem to become mayor the following […]
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By Kathryn Reed Money for teachers, textbooks and lights for the classrooms remain – for the most part – but there may be no students sitting at the desks. That’s because school bus funding has been cut throughout California. Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday pulled the trigger to slice millions of dollars from K-14 education. […]
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South Lake Tahoe police, Placerville police, El Dorado County sheriff and the CHP will be out in force during the holiday season from Dec. 16-Jan. 2 to arrest anyone caught driving drunk behind the wheel. “‘RUOK?’ is the text message version of the often heard question, ‘Are you OK to drive?’ If you have to […]
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By Yun Long, Reno Gazette-Journal Almost everyone seems to have a mobile app. And if not, they’re working on one. JoinGo, an Incline Village startup established in 2008, offers gaming properties a mobile product that puts them on the ground floor of the smartphone trend — without the substantial investment in technology or workforce that […]
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By Katherine E. Hill KINGS BEACH – Kings Beach will be undergoing a face-lift over the next three years, with sidewalks, lighting, landscaping and a reconfigured three-lane highway through the small hamlet. With these improvements, known as the Kings Beach Commercial Core Improvement Project, come long-term maintenance and repair costs from snow removal in the […]
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By Dean Kuipers, Los Angeles Times Climate change much? A new map published today by the Natural Resources Defense Council makes it plain that extreme weather attributable to climate change isn’t something that only happens in other parts of the world. Chances are you’ve had your own Hurricane Irene, or drought, or something like it […]
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By Jim Sanders, Sacramento Bee California’s Legislature would become part-time under a constitutional amendment proposed Friday by a Republican lawmaker and the head of a political watchdog group. The measure calls for the nation’s most populous state to meet three months per year – and for lawmakers’ pay to be cut from $7,940 per month […]
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By Melody Gutierrez, Sacramento Bee An El Dorado County man who fled while being investigated for allegedly raping a 14-year-old in 1998 was arrested today in New Jersey. Pasquale Patrick Senatore, 45, has been on the run since 2002, when investigators attempted to question him about allegations he forcibly raped a girl repeatedly over a […]
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By Fiona Grahma, BBC News Alan Woodham is enjoying an enviable retirement. Aged 60 he and his wife like to travel as much as possible. In the mean time their home is left empty – which in the winter could mean burst pipes, and an insurance nightmare to return home to. Not exactly the après […]
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