By Kathryn Reed At the last South Lake Tahoe City Council meeting, Bruce Grego asked for an item to be on the March 15 agenda that would address whether the city should continue being a member of PADMA. The city councilman referenced the March 17, 2010, letter the city sent to the Park Avenue Development […]
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By Carlos Alcalá, Sacramento Bee Kevin and Nancy Cairns moved to El Dorado County hoping for a piece of heaven on the American River. They got a taste of hell. They opened Dante’s on the River seven years ago on an isolated stretch of Highway 50, east of Pollock Pines. “It’s a beautiful piece of […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE — To stop a projected annual deficit of $449,500, overseers of the South Shore public bus system on Friday agreed to proceed with route changes and fare increases. Although ridership numbers are 8 percent higher than projected, the people on the BlueGo buses are not paying full price because they are […]
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Publisher’s note: The following is from the U.S. Coast Guard on March 11 at 1:34pm. Northern California Coast Guard response crews are conducting the following actions in response to the West Coast tsunami and related impacts: * Coast Guard Air Station Humboldt Bay’s MH-65C helicopters are continuing to search for a person in the water […]
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By Erin Kelly, Gannett News Service WASHINGTON— Sen. John Ensign’s decision not to seek re-election surprised few in the nation’s capital, where political leaders of both parties have been quietly planning for the possibility for months. Both Republicans and Democrats believed that Ensign had been so badly weakened by scandal that he could not win […]
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By Bill Lindelof and Tony Bizjak, Sacramento Bee Some minor effects from a possible tsunami have been reported along the California coast this morning, although thousands were evacuated from a handful of coastal counties as a precaution. Ocean swells have begun to rise quickly in the last hour in some coastal areas, with Crescent City […]
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Publisher’s note: Here is a link to when NOAA forecasts a potential tsunami could hit West Coast cities. Here is an emergency preparedness guide for the South Shore that has relevance to other areas. By Barbara Demick, David Pierson and Kenji Hall, Los Angeles Times The worst earthquake in generations struck off the northeast coast […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe officials were in Sacramento on Wednesday discussing Caltrans’ plan to close Highway 50 over Echo Summit next month and what it will mean to the local economy. With the contract already awarded to C.C. Myers contractors out of Rancho Cordova, the city and tourism entities have no control over […]
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By Wall Street Journal Vail Resorts Inc.’s fiscal second-quarter earnings rose 34 percent as more skiers visited its slopes and ancillary sales jumped. The results beat Wall Street’s expectations. Ski resorts have seen their results improve since the economic downturn, when spending on travel and leisure plummeted. Visitors numbers began climbing in 2009 and picked […]
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Statewide, the casino industry started the year off with a slight decline, though the Stateline numbers were worse. On the South Shore revenue was down 7.85 percent in January compared to 2010. However, throughout Nevada the numbers dropped less than 1 percent year over year. Casinos collected $877.4 million from gamblers two months ago. There […]
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