By Kathryn Reed Frivolous is basically what South Lake Tahoe is calling the lawsuit filed by the League to Save Lake Tahoe against the city’s General Plan. In closed session this morning, the City Council agreed to have City Attorney Patrick Enright file a motion to dismiss. That paperwork must be completed by the end […]
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By Liz Benston, Las Vegas Sun Students at MIT and Stanford use high-tech devices to study nerve impulses in the human brain and subatomic particles in the solar system. Now UNLV students will take a similarly scientific approach to something crucial to this tourism-dependent town: hotel room rates. Starting in August, a graduate-level class in […]
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By Matt Kawahara, Sacramento Bee A small airplane attempting to take off from the Placerville Airport on Monday made a hard landing near the runway, causing the pilot to be hospitalized and fuel to leak from the damaged aircraft, officials said. The plane lifted off briefly before hitting the ground off the side of the […]
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By Sam Stanton and Denny Walsh, Sacramento Bee Nine days after they kidnapped Jaycee Lee Dugard, Phillip and Nancy Garrido paid a visit to his parole officer, who indicated things seemed to be going quite well for the convicted rapist and kidnapper. “No major changes,” the federal parole agent wrote on June 19, 1991, adding […]
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By Kathryn Reed Anne Filce is in the principal’s office and Danette Winslow is back in the classroom full time. The change at St. Theresa School in South Lake Tahoe became effective July 1, though the decision was made during the last school year. It’s the head pastor who makes the administrative decision. Filce has […]
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By Diana Lambert and Phillip Reese, Sacramento Bee It’s a trend that would seem to defy conventional wisdom: As public school spending has declined in California in recent years, student achievement test scores have gone up. Statewide, school districts spent 6 percent less from 2008 to 2010, but the percentage of second- to seventh-grade students […]
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By Sean Whaley, Nevada News Bureau CARSON CITY – A contractors representative told the state Transportation Board today that officials missed out on opportunities to increase road funding in the 2011 legislative session, and that failing to act promptly on the issue could cost Northern Nevada a competitive bid for the 2022 Winter Olympics. John […]
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State Sen. Ted Gaines, R-Roseville, and El Dorado County District Attorney Vern Pierson today launched a joint effort to strengthen California’s public safety protection in light of the circumstances surrounding Jaycee Lee Dugard’s kidnapping and captivity. Gaines and Pierson have scheduled a public meeting Aug. 3 at the Capitol with law enforcement leaders and victims’ […]
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By Bill O’Driscoll, Reno Gazette-Journal Washoe County gaming revenues fell for a seventh straight month in May, the state reported Monday, as the region continues to struggle with recession and competition for gamblers’ dollars. “Some day we’ll get to the bottom of this, and it will stabilize at some point and we’ll see minor growth,” […]
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On July 10 at approximately 5:30pm a bicyclist collided with a vehicle at the intersection of Donner Pass Road at Northwoods Drive in Truckee. The driver of the vehicle initially got out of the vehicle, but then fled eastbound on Donner Pass. While enroute to the accident, the Truckee Fire ambulance crew saw the suspect […]
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