By Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News Barton Memorial Hospital sent its 900 employees back to school in June to learn how to provide better service. Their instructor: The Walt Disney Co. “Disney understands guest services,” said Kathy Cocking, Barton’s vice president of operations. “And we’re not as good as we want to be.” In classes […]
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Updated July 25 4:40pm: The Airport Fire burning north of Markleeville is now estimated at 80 acres, but officials said fire crews on the scene should be able to contain the blaze. The fire, which started about 1:15pm, is burning in the Indian Creek Reservoir area. The Indian Creek Campground facilities and Alpine County Airport […]
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Updated July 25 at 1:30pm: The U.S. Forest Service today was given approval by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to begin logging the Angora burn when judges denied an emergency injunction sought by conservation groups. ———————————– U.S. Forest Service officials intend this week to begin removing dead trees from the Angora burn area […]
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Nevada Department of Wildlife officials have been busy in the last 24 hours dealing with bears in Lake Tahoe and Carson City. A bear wondering around the Raley’s shopping center off Highway 28 in Incline Village on Sunday was killed by wildlife officials. They said this was necessary because it was the third time the […]
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By Mark Anderson, Sacramento Business Journal The lending group that held the note on the Ritz-Carlton Lake Tahoe bought the note for $85.5 million in a foreclosure auction Monday morning at the Placer County Courthouse. Bank of America, primary lender on the development, first filed a notice of default on the property in March 2010. […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe police officers are investigating the death of a 52-year-old man as a possible homicide. Officers said they were called by the dead man’s roommate to their residence in the 3700 block of Forest Avenue at 3:15 Monday morning because the victim was not breathing and had sustained a head […]
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By Valerie Strauss, Washington Post Newly released geography scores from the 2010 National Assessment of Educational Progress show that fewer than one-third of the nation’s fourth, eighth and 12th graders were proficient in the subject. On the following seemingly easy question, only 33 percent of eighth-grade students who took the test got the correct answer: […]
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Nine fire agencies from four Nevada counties and one California county have agreed to adopt and implement a standardized apparatus and station identification system. Fire agencies from Douglas, Carson, Lyon, and Storey counties in Nevada, and Alpine County in California, will be implementing the system starting Oct. 1. Chiefs from the participating agencies realized the […]
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John Hunsberger, 60, of South Lake Tahoe died from the injuries he sustained this month when he stepped from a Nifty Fifty Trolley, according to police officials. The incident occurred July 11. Hunsberger died at Renown Medical Center in Reno on July 15. He is the fourth person this year to die in a traffic […]
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By Jim Sanders, Sacramento Bee Political careers of numerous California state senators could be altered or jeopardized by a key decision made Friday by the independent commission drawing new districts. What seemed like a simple numbers game by the 14-member panel carried massive stakes because it signaled which lawmakers may be forced to run next […]
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