Lake Tahoe residents awoke to rain Sunday morning. And it’s just going to get worse as the day goes on. The National Weather Service in Reno has issued a winter weather advisory above 7,000 feet from 10 am to 10pm Sunday. Expect snow accumulations of 5 to 10 inches above 7,000 feet, with accumulations up […]
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By Kara Lapoint, Reno Gazette-Journal The Tax Foundation, a nonprofit and nonpartisan tax-research group in Washington, D.C., has released its latest edition of the State Business Tax Climate Index, which ranks the tax systems of the 50 states. Nevada came in at No. 4, which means the state had the fourth-best tax climate on the […]
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By Michael Kay, Union Democrat There was a time when the forests of northeastern Calaveras County fed communities. Now they threaten to destroy them. Decades without thinning and wrongheaded national anti-fire policies have left a tinderbox of thickly grown trees and heavy brush, according to many experts. It is so bad in some areas that […]
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By Torey Van Oot, Sacramento Bee The secretary of state’s office has gotten its cash back from the web vendor hosting the crash-plagued statewide election results site on Tuesday. The site, which includes a county-by-county breakdown and results map, went down shortly before the polls closed at 8 p.m. Tuesday. It was soon replaced with […]
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By Matt Weiser, Sacramento Bee The black-backed woodpecker, a native of the Sierra Nevada, has just three toes, a yen for burned trees, and tremendous potential to shake up California logging rules. Environmental groups recently filed a petition to protect the woodpecker under the state Endangered Species Act. The Center for Biological Diversity and the […]
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By Kathryn Reed Trying to prevent a lawsuit and provide public safety, the South Lake Tahoe City Council on Tuesday agreed to increase the signage at the bankrupt convention center site so people will know not to walk on the north side of Highway 50. Tiny signs are at either end of the dormant construction […]
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By Steve Green, Las Vegas Sun Harrah’s Entertainment Inc. of Las Vegas today posted a third quarter loss as costs expanded and customers spent less on the Las Vegas Strip and around the country. The company lost $164.8 million in the quarter, a turnaround from 2009’s third quarter when Harrah’s lost $1.7 billion. Both quarters […]
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By Sam Stanton, Sacramento Bee Phillip Garrido’s competence to stand trial in the Jaycee Lee Dugard kidnapping will not be decided until a hearing in early March, an El Dorado Superior Court judge decided Thursday, and more mental health experts may be appointed to examine him before then. Judge Douglas Phimister also said he would […]
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By Tony Bizjak, Sacramento Bee Up in the El Dorado Hills area, commuters complain that one Highway 50 reconstruction effort seems to have become the region’s official never-ending project. It’s been two years since work started on the combination car-pool lane and freeway interchange upgrade project – yet workers are still out there, shifting lanes […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe City Councilman Bruce Grego expressed dissatisfaction with contents of the city’s environmental impact report for the updated General Plan, but was essentially shutdown by the consultant. “It appears there is a certain philosophy being worked into this document,” Grego said at the Nov. 2 council meeting. He took issue […]
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