By Jim Sanders and Torey Van Oot, Sacramento Bee BURBANK – California legislators no longer will receive a car, gas and maintenance paid largely by taxpayers. The state’s independent compensation commission voted Thursday to replace the existing program in December with a $300 monthly allowance to defray legislators’ costs of driving their personal vehicles. Commissioner […]
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By Kathryn Reed Alcohol will be sold at Fallen Leaf Lake this summer. That is assuming a concessionaire is ever hired and then that person acquires the necessary permits. After a 3½-hour meeting Saturday that was dominated by issues related to the operation of the store and marina at the South Shore lake, the board […]
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By Kathryn Reed East West Partners is surviving life after bankruptcy. The Avon, Colo.-based company is ready to break ground on 16 townhomes along the ski run at Northstar-at-Tahoe that leads to the village. The Truckee segment of the company filed for bankruptcy in February 2010, emerging from the proceedings last summer. “It had no […]
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By Kathryn Reed What was the largest penalty issued by the Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board — $2.75 million – was cut by about $1 million when East West Partners emerged from bankruptcy. This week the water board decided in part how to spend the remaining funds now that the company is solvent and […]
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Placer County Executive Officer Thomas Miller on Thursday signed an order declaring the presence of propane leaks beneath significant snowpack at numerous sites a threat to public safety. This order encompasses not only the Serene Lakes subdivision area near Donner Summit, but other eastern Placer County communities. The order authorizes the director of Environmental Health […]
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By Felicity Barringer, New York Times Not quite five months ago, on Nov. 27, the level of Lake Mead, the massive federal reservoir that serves faucets and fields in Nevada, Arizona and California, hit an all-time low level of 1,081.85 feet above sea level. Seven feet lower, and the first water shortage ever would have […]
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By Kathryn Reed Sue Niehoff, vice president of Business Services at Lake Tahoe Community College, submitted her resignation Thursday. Niehoff has been the subject of several board meetings this calendar year. She was not immediately available for comment Friday. Board President Fritz Wenck told Lake Tahoe News that at the April 26 meeting his group […]
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By Cathy Locke, Sacramento Bee Two open houses regarding a power line project to serve the Kirkwood community will be sponsored by the U.S. Forest Service. The sessions are scheduled April 30 and May 3 to discuss the environmental impact reports for the project, which is intended to provide electrical power to the Kirkwood Meadows […]
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By Kathryn Reed Lumber will be able to be bought on a Sunday sometime this summer on the South Shore. This is because on Thursday afternoon the South Lake Tahoe Planning Commission agreed to DIY’s special use permit that would allow the store to sell lumber. The controversial store – at least when it was […]
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By Jason Hidalgo, Reno Gazette-Journal A sleeping air traffic controller at the Reno-Tahoe International Airport on Wednesday revealed the Federal Aviation Administration reneged on its promise to have two controllers working overnight. The incident made Reno the focal point of the continuing debate about the safety of the nation’s air traffic control system, just weeks […]
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