By Jason Hidalgo, Reno Gazette-Journal Home values in Lake Tahoe got a shot in the arm from the East Shore during the first half of the year, but the positive news was tempered by a dip in the number of homes sold. The median price for a single-family home in Lake Tahoe rose 2 percent […]
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By Kathryn Reed CAMP RICHARDSON – The Tahoe Tallac Association board and staff could take some pointers from the characters on stage at the Boathouse Theatre. The five woman starring in the play “Dixie Swim Club” are fabulous in how they capture the nuances of a friendship born in college that lasts into their 70s […]
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By Robert Salonga, Contra Costa Times A newly released report reads like a laundry list of oversights by agents charged with monitoring Phillip Garrido’s federal parole in the 1990s, when he kidnapped and began his 18-year imprisonment of Jaycee Dugard. The confidential review released Friday by James Ware, chief district judge for the Bay Area, […]
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By Darrell Smith, Sacramento Bee Sacramento-area district attorneys will get more than $1.4 million in state grants to fight workers compensation insurance fraud in 2011-2012, the state Insurance Commissioner’s office announced Tuesday. Sacramento County will receive $900,000. El Dorado County was awarded $330,000. Yolo County will get $245,960. The grant awards total $32 million to […]
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By Ralph Vartabedian, Los Angeles Times It was his green tongue that helped give away Jimmy Candido Flores when police arrived at the fatal accident scene near Chico. Flores had run off the road and killed a jogger, Carrie Jean Holliman, a 56-year-old Chico elementary school teacher. California Highway Patrol officers thought he might be […]
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By Cy Ryan, Las Vegas Sun CARSON CITY — The Nevada Tax Commission has won a procedural battle with Caesars Entertainment related to the casino company’s pursuit of $8.6 million tax refund. Caesars sued the state, arguing it should not have paid tax on the aircraft it purchased in 2006 because the planes’ first flights […]
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By Brian Duggan, Reno Gazette-Journal The Nevada Supreme Court ended a nine-year property tax dispute between 8,700 North Lake Tahoe residents and Washoe County on Thursday, saying homeowners in Incline Village and Crystal Bay are due a property tax refund. While estimates of the refund came out to about $13 million in 2009, with interest […]
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By Kathryn Reed With the California budget approved last week, it means $84,305 is not coming to the South Lake Tahoe Police Department. Statewide, Senate Bill 89 takes $130 million in vehicle license fees away from cities. The money could be filtered back to cities and counties in the form of grants. However, it throws […]
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By Jeff Delong, Reno Gazette-Journal More of all that water rushing down the Truckee River can now be captured for use. At a time when there’s much more water in the river than normal for this time of year, a newly completed structure allows the area’s primary water provider to divert nearly 10 million gallons […]
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By Kathryn Reed Information about South Lake Tahoe is finally easily accessible. The city replaced its outdated website this month with one that can actually be navigated without needing a doctorate in information technology. Visually, it’s also inviting. It has all the info readers will want, but it is presented in a format with the […]
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