By Dale Kasler, Sacramento Bee California’s big public pension funds are already short tens of billions of dollars. An organization of accountants is about to make the picture look even worse. A proposed change to pension accounting standards could give more ammunition to conservatives seeking to reduce pension benefits for public sector workers. Gov. Jerry […]
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By KCRA-TV SHINGLE SPRINGS — A shooting suspect wanted out of the Bay Area was caught Thursday morning in Shingle Springs, according to the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Department. The suspect’s vehicle was stopped on westbound Highway 50, based on a Be On The Lookout Bulletin. The right lane of traffic was blocked for a […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe has paid John Andoh, former transit administrator for the now defunct South Tahoe Area Transportation Agency, $5,000 to settle the claim he filed in August 2010. The civil rights lawsuit filed in federal court in Sacramento was against South Lake Tahoe, the city police department and Officer Russell Liles. […]
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By Yun Long, Reno Gazette-Journal In April, Jerry Garrity’s commute will go from one hour to at least three-and-half hours. Garrity, 58, makes multiple trips a month between his home in Reno and his real estate brokerage firm near San Jose, Calif., on Southwest Airlines, which handles more than 50 percent of Reno-Tahoe International Airport […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE — The six candidates running for the South Tahoe Public Utility District board had to think on their feet a bit more than is usual at election forums. Instead of each being asked the same question, Soroptimist International South Lake Tahoe – sponsors of the event, asked different questions of each […]
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By Susan Voyles, Reno Gazette-Journal On a typical summer day, more than 3,000 people — most of them from Northern Nevada — jam into Sand Harbor State Park on the East Shore of Lake Tahoe. A long line of vehicles clogs Nevada 28 as motorists wait to pay to enter the park. They park, sometimes […]
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The Truckee Ranger District will begin fall prescribed burning today with 15 to 20 acres in the Sawtooth area. Predicted winds are out of the northwest, which should push smoke into the Watson Lake area. The timing of all burning depend on favorable weather conditions and may continue periodically until significant snow accumulates. Weather is […]
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By Larry Altman, Daily Breeze A Rolling Hills Estates man ordered recently to stop soliciting donations online for Hurricane Irene victims has been arrested in South Lake Tahoe, police said. Benjamin Ellis Freedland, 28, was taken into custody Saturday stemming from a case in which he tried to run a man over with his car […]
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By Kathryn Reed In a matter of seconds the South Lake Tahoe City Council voted to do away with a list of positions. This, after hearing about 2½ hours of testimony – from staff and a dozen others – on the 2011-12 budget. “It seems so anticlimactic. With these votes we’ve affected so many people’s […]
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By Reno Gazette-Journal A structure fire in the early morning hours on Tuesday resulted in the deaths of two Tahoe City residents and their dog. Peter Maktenieks, 50, and Amy Pass, 39, both died in what appears to be an accidental fire, said Capt. Jeffrey Ausnow, North Tahoe station commander for the Placer County Sheriff’s […]
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