By Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times The weather is costing America a lot of money. A new report from the National Climatic Data Center shows that in 2011 alone, there have been nine U.S. weather-related disasters that have each caused more than $1 billion in damages. The report estimates these disasters have cost the U.S. […]
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By Anne Knowles If you’re wondering if you saw a white boat with wheels drive off Highway 50 into Lake Tahoe sometime this summer, you did. And if you’re wondering if it’s legal, it is. Tahoe Duck Tours, in its first full summer of operations, is offering daily, multiple hour-plus tours of the lake on […]
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By Eric Kurhi, Oakland Tribune HAYWARD — Nearly two years after Hayward police mounted a major search of the property near Antioch belonging to Phillip and Nancy Garrido in hopes of finding clues related to the disappearance of Michaela Garecht, investigators finally talked to the couple, who maintained their innocence. Investigators spoke with each of […]
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By Carlos Alcalá and Peter Hecht, Sacramento Bee A majority of Placerville City Council members are calling on Mayor David Machado to step down in the wake of his arrest Thursday on felony charges connected with his property holdings in the city. In addition, officials have amended the agenda for Tuesday’s meeting to consider removing […]
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By Jason Hildago, Reno Gazette-Journal The highly-polarized budget debate combined with wishy-washy renewable energy policy from Washington, D.C., were identified as key threats to the speedy development of the U.S. clean economy, said experts at a national geothermal conference in Reno. The need to pare an extra $1.2 trillion from the federal budget especially raised […]
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Publisher’s note: This is the second of a two-part series about South Lake Tahoe’s fiscal situation. By Kathryn Reed Fixed incomes and health care payments are beginning to clash for South Lake Tahoe retirees. As retirees, most of their retirement checks are set. Not so when it comes to health care benefits. They get what […]
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Updated 10:45pm Aug. 19 By Jeff Delong, Reno Gazette-Journal Full containment for the 3,895-acre wildfire in Douglas County has been pushed back to Sunday, Sierra Front fire responders report Friday night. Now at 85 percent containment, the fire continued to smolder Friday, officials said. Two 15-year-old boys suspected of starting a wildfire that burned more […]
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By Nancy Lofholm, Denver Post Sen. Mark Udall of Colorado has added his voice to mounting pressure on the State Department to improve oversight of a 50-year-old foreign-exchange visitor program that has morphed into a conduit for guest workers and is drawing fire for siphoning jobs from American workers. The Democrat wrote to Secretary of […]
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By Jason Hildago, Reno Gazette-Journal It’s a sunny, summer day in August, and several employees inside a control room are clearly feeling the heat in more ways than one. As workers at Ormat Technologies’ Steamboat Geothermal Power Plant Complex in Reno, the control room guys are charged with overseeing an operation that generates 89 megawatts […]
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Barton Health and Push Fitness have been discussing the possibility of the health care provider acquiring the South Lake Tahoe gym. However, Barton’s board of directors on Aug. 16 voted not to go forward with the purchase. “We can’t disclose why we were looking into it. We filed a non-disclosure statement with Push,” Rebecca Wass, […]
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