By Kathryn Reed Tahoe Valley Elementary School’s falling statewide test scores was in stark contrast to how most of the schools in Lake Tahoe Unified School District performed. The Academic Performance Index is the measure the state uses to determine how students are doing from one year to the next. Results were released Monday. Overall, […]
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The draft environmental impact report for South Lake Tahoe’s General Plan update was released today. People have until Nov. 12 to comment on it. A public hearing is scheduled for Oct. 14 at 3pm at Lake Tahoe Airport before the Planning Commission. The City Council will take on the issue Nov. 2 at 9am. Copies […]
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Updated: Sept. 13 11:09am. Firefighters quickly doused a half-acre fire this morning near the Heavenly gondola in South Lake Tahoe. This area and right behind the Stateline casinos have always been popular illegal camping sites for homeless people. Although fire officials have not determined the exact cause of the blaze, speculation this morning was that […]
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By David T. Hartgen, Adrian Moore, Ravi K. Karanam and M. Gregory Fields, Reason Foundation We often hear the nation’s infrastructure is crumbling, but state highway conditions are the best they’ve been in 19 years, according to Reason Foundation’s 19th Annual Highway Report. Unfortunately, the recession is partly responsible for the improvement in road conditions: […]
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By Frank X. Mullen Jr., Reno Gazette-Journal Wild horse advocates are asking the federal government to investigate allegations that the Bureau of Land Management sent 172 Nevada mustangs to an auction attended by “slaughter buyers” in July. The horses were rounded up by the BLM in the Pilot Creek Valley area near Wendover and auctioned […]
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By Michael Kay, Union Democrat A towing company will soon remove the wreckage of a semi-trailer truck that fell from a famous curve on Highway 4 into a ravine last month while carrying 40,000 pounds of ice cream and peanut butter chips. But the rusting Cadillac whose decades-long stay in ravine has given “Cadillac Curve” […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE — Riders of BlueGo, the South Shore’s bus service that is bankrupt, can expect more route changes as of Oct. 3. The South Tahoe Area Transit Authority board unanimously agreed to the changes at the Sept. 10 meeting. The South Lake Tahoe City Council will vote on the changes Sept. 14. […]
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By Carrie Peyton Dahlberg, Sacramento Bee With government budgets pinched, some counties in the Sacramento region are cutting back on finding and treating people with sexually transmitted diseases. Both Sacramento and El Dorado counties are contacting fewer patients and fewer of their partners than they used to, public health doctors say. That increases the risk […]
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By Frank X. Mullen Jr. Reno Gazette-Journal Dealing with the Hot August Nights organization has been an exercise in frustration after event officials announced in June that the classic car and music festival will be opening in Long Beach, Calif., next year for a six-year run, officials of Reno and Sparks said. “It’s been a […]
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Updated: Sept. 13, 2010, 3:45pm. By Kathryn Reed Lake Tahoe South Shore Chamber of Commerce Executive Director B Gorman wrote a check to South Lake Tahoe for nearly $1,000 on Sept. 9 for the transient occupancy tax she had not paid since last December. Gorman did not return a phone call seeking comment. The city […]
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