By Kathryn Reed It took about 45 minutes for both sides in the League to Save Lake Tahoe-South Lake Tahoe General Plan case to try to convince U.S. District Court Judge Garland Burrell of their opinions. The city is asking the court to dismiss the case. “The motion to dismiss is on the basis they […]
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By Susan Voyles, Reno Gazette-Journal The North Lake Tahoe Fire Protection District has saved half of the $6.5 million owed as its share of $43 million tax refunds being paid to Incline Village residents. But it may have to ask residents for a property tax increase — the very people who benefit from the tax […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – Tahoe South. It’s a place. It’s an attitude. It’s a feeling. It’s a people. It is the South Shore. “We know who we are. Now everyone else will too.” That was the tagline in a promotional video shown at Thursday’s Lake Tahoe Visitors Authority board meeting. The fast-moving segment touched […]
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Officers believe the call they received Dec. 7 about a body near a truck in the Gardnerville Cemetery came from the man who was eventually fatally shot by a Douglas County sheriff’s deputy. “Suspect David Pendleton’s cell phone, which was later recovered at the scene, revealed that a call was made to the Douglas County […]
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By Kathryn Reed Joseph Scanio, the South Lake Tahoe man who served more than three years in federal prison on child pornography charges, will be spending another six months behind bars. U.S. District Court Judge Morrison England Jr. today in Sacramento sentenced Scanio for eight probation violations. Where he will serve his time has not […]
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By KRNV-TV WASHINGTON – Sen. Harry Reid today hailed passage of the Lake Tahoe Restoration Act of 2011 out of the Environment and Public Works Committee. The act, which Reid sponsored in 2009, would restore and protect the ecological integrity of Lake Tahoe and the Tahoe Basin. This year, the Nevada Democrat is co-sponsoring the […]
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By Sarah Duxbury, San Francisco Business Times Days after saying that the $70 million JMA deal to buy Great America was off, the San Francisco real estate company announced that it has closed a deal to buy the luxury residences at the Northstar ski resort directly from Ritz-Carlton Development Co. Terms of the deal were […]
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Placer County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously approved the plans to overhaul Homewood ski resort. Next up is for the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency Governing Board to hear the matter Dec. 14 at 9:30am at Granlibakken in Tahoe City. The project proposal by owners JMA Ventures includes new ski lodges, residences, lifts and a […]
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By Kathryn Reed Public health is one of two reasons the Lahontan Regional Water Quality board on Wednesday voted to allow chemicals to be used to rid Lake Tahoe of invasive species – plant or animal. Public safety is the reason people who supply drinking water to thousands of people in the basin spoke against […]
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By Reno Gazette-Journal A Douglas County Sheriff’s deputy fatally shot a man who allegedly pointed a shotgun at him Wednesday. At around 2:10pm, deputies were called to the Gardnerville Cemetery on a report of a dead body, Sheriff’s spokesman Jim Halsey said. When deputies arrived, they found David Pendleton, 77, standing next to a truck […]
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