By Sean Whaley, Nevada News Bureau CARSON CITY – Gov. Brian Sandoval this week issued an executive order directing a state agency and task force to assess the regional market for Nevada’s renewable energy resources. In a briefing with Sandoval senior adviser Dale Erquiaga and Nevada State Office of Energy Director Stacey Crowley, it was […]
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By Katherine E. Hill KINGS BEACH – Wanted: Local residents and business owners to serve for at least two years on one of four committees to help direct future planning and growth on Tahoe’s North and West shores. That’s the message from Placer County officials at a recent meeting on the Community Plan Update, a […]
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By Peter J. Boyer, Newsweek In the spring of 2010, a bespectacled, middle-aged policy wonk named Peter Schweizer fired up his laptop and began a months-long odyssey into a forbidding maze of public databases, hunting for the financial secrets of Washington’s most powerful politicians. Schweizer had been struck by the fact that members of Congress […]
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By Pete Carey, San Jose Mercury News Lake Tahoe area real estate agents, hungry for sales in the aftermath of the housing bubble, are counting on the Bay Area’s booming tech industry to help generate the next crop of million-dollar vacation home buyers. Sales of million dollar-plus Tahoe homes are down about 30 percent from […]
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By Charles Piller, Sacramento Bee In a sometimes contentious legislative hearing Tuesday, state senators told California Department of Transportation officials that their management of data falsification by a technician in one of the agency’s testing units suggests pervasive management problems. “I’m a little bit troubled about what seems to be a systemic problem in the […]
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Kindertown Day Care will remain closed as El Dorado County Superior Court Judge Warren Stracener reviews charge brought against the South Lake Tahoe center by the state. At a hearing last week in Placerville that was attended by supporters of day care owner Maria Barrows-Crist, Stracener said he would have a decision in a month. […]
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By Kathryn Reed Drug dealers and users may have something to celebrate with the New Year. For everyone else it might not be such good news that the South Lake El Dorado Narcotics Enforcement Team is disbanding. SLEDNET is one of the 34 drug task forces being forced to shutdown because of state budget cuts. […]
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By Matt Weiser, Sacramento Bee The songbirds at the feeder outside your window are not the same as they used to be. The goldfinch, the grosbeak and even the ever-present sparrow are all a little bit bigger. The reason is climate change, according to a new study, which found that 70 bird species, all common […]
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People attending and volunteering at the annual community Thanksgiving Dinner at Grace Hall have one less thing to be thankful for – the South Lake Tahoe Police Department. Ten parking tickets were issued Nov. 21 to people parking along the frontage street in front of the tennis courts at South Tahoe Middle School. Lots of […]
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By Brian Duggan, Reno Gazette-Journal Cheryl Wilson still had bruises on her hands Sunday, a painful a reminder of the frantic moments after awakening to smoke at 2am Friday, then running to her neighbors’ doors on Starr Meadows Loop to pound on them as hard as she could. The victim of a house fire in […]
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