By Jeff Delong, Reno Gazette-Journal A hefty mountain snowpack and a cool, moist spring will reduce risks of major wildfires in Northern Nevada and the Sierra through June, fire experts said Thursday. Fire danger will be a little greater this month in a drier Southern Nevada, while grass crops nourished by wet weather could make […]
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By Kathryn Reed Edgewood Companies will have the rooms it needs to build a lodge on its Stateline golf course and South Lake Tahoe will have a park to replace a blighted, boarded up hotel. That’s the proposal on the table. The City Council is scheduled to make the final decision when it meets Tuesday […]
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By Jessie Marchesseau At a hearing Friday before a federal court judge, Lori Zoval pleaded not guilty to charges of wire fraud. A jury trial date is set for Sept. 13. Zoval, a South Lake Tahoe woman indicted in July 2010 on three charges of wire fraud stemming from an alleged investment fraud scheme in […]
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By Jason Hildago, Reno Gazette-Journal The Ritz-Carlton, Lake Tahoe will end its court-appointed receivership later this month as the luxury resort gets new ownership. The resort at mid-mountain at Northstar-at-Tahoe is scheduled to have its official ownership change on June 27, according to Steven Holt, Ritz-Carlton, Lake Tahoe public relations director. Holt said the name […]
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By Kathryn Reed Eneliko “Sean” Smith, former owner of the boarded up Block Hotel in South Lake Tahoe, was arrested June 2 in Las Vegas on driving under the influence charges. Smith, 40, was being held without bail at Clark County Detention Facility. He is also being held on a warrant out of El Dorado […]
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El Dorado County Board of Supervisors is scheduled to vote on a series of fees affecting Lake Tahoe Basin residents at the June 21 9am meeting. The mosquito abatement and snow removal fees are not changing. The $6 and $20, respective, fees are the same annual charge property owners pay now. The board has to […]
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An El Dorado County man who was arrested in connection with an alleged cockfighting operation in Garden Valley in February was convicted last week, ordered to serve 45 days in county jail, and pay $700 in fines and fees and more than $4,200 in restitution to El Dorado County. Once he serves his jail time, […]
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By Morgan Brennan, Forbes Home prices around the country have taken another round of beatings lately, with national home values having dropped more than 30 percent now from the 2006 peak. The ultra luxury end of housing has felt those price plunges too, with multi-million dollar homes cutting prices by the millions. One Lake Tahoe […]
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By Stephanie Veale, Reno Gazette-Journal The landscape for women business owners has changed drastically since Christine Whitman became an entrepreneur 20 years ago. In 1991, Whitman, now chief executive and president of logistics company Complemar Partners in New York, led a management buyout of the company she worked for at the time. She said women […]
Read moreUpdated: June 2 8:57pm By Sam Stanton, Sacramento Bee Jaycee Lee Dugard described in terrifying detail last fall how Phillip and Nancy Garrido snatched her off the street and whisked her away for 18 years of captivity. Grand jury transcripts released moments ago recount her secret testimony that was the basis of the guilty pleas […]
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