By Kathryn Reed Play was not interrupted as engines rolled across the fairways of Bijou Golf Course on Thursday. The smell of smoke drifted toward Happy Homestead Cemetery as crews about a quarter mile away on the South Lake Tahoe course put out the small fire. Although South Tahoe, Lake Valley and Forest Service personnel […]
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By Cy Ryan, Las Vegas Sun CARSON CITY – Casinos on the Las Vegas Strip suffered their lowest monthly gross win since 2003, with players of baccarat, blackjack and craps winning more than usual in June. The 37 casinos, which account for more than 50 percent of the win in the state, captured $382.9 million, […]
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By Sam Stanton, Sacramento Bee SUSANVILLE – It wasn’t a simple, orderly process, but the federal government’s controversial wild horse roundup started Wednesday in northeastern California with few of the problems that opponents decry as they try to put a stop to the practice. Roughly 130 horses were herded into pens by a helicopter buzzing […]
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By Kathryn Reed It’s possible Lake Tahoe will have a new assemblyman and state senator in a matter of months. Ted Gaines, who currently represents the area in the Assembly, is running for the seat of the late state Sen. Dave Cox. Cox died in July at age 72. Gaines, R-Roseville, is wrapping up his […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE — Results. That is how Tony O’Rourke wants his tenure as city manager of South Lake Tahoe to be judged. Part of Day 3 on the job was spent speaking to Soroptimist International of South Lake Tahoe during the group’s weekly lunch at Harveys. Looking out and down from the 12th […]
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Bids for a 1.3 million gallon water storage tank came in well below what North Tahoe Public Utility District board of directors was ready to pay. At the Aug. 10 meeting directors awarded the $1.76 million project to Paso Robles Tank Inc. This is more than $250,000 less than engineers estimated. This project includes the […]
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Updated Aug. 14, 2010, 9:20am: The person flown to Renown Medical Center has been discharged from the hospital. By Kathryn Reed Highway 50 in South Lake Tahoe was closed for a couple hours Wednesday afternoon after a suspected drunken driver caused a four-car accident that sent three people to the hospital. Eric Acri, 50, of […]
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By Sean Collins Walsh, Reno Gazette-Journal Foreclosures, unemployment and as of Monday, personal income growth. Another economic indicator shows Nevada was hit harder by the nationwide recession than any other state: Silver State residents saw the greatest rate of decline in their personal incomes, 0.9 percent, from the first quarter of 2008 through the first […]
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By Sam Stanton, Sacramento Bee SUSANVILLE — With a last-minute court challenge shot down, federal officials were preparing this morning to begin a roundup of thousands of wild horses and burros from wild lands in northeastern California and neighboring Nevada. The effort, which will use helicopters to stampede the animals through the rugged area into […]
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By Tim Sheehan, Fresno Bee SACRAMENTO — “Paper or plastic” no longer would be a choice at grocery checkout lines under a proposed law to ban disposable plastic bags in California’s markets and convenience stores. Assembly Bill 1998 — written by Assembly Member Julia Brownley, D-Santa Monica — would make California the first state to […]
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