By David Siders, Sacramento Bee Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger will nominate Tani Cantil-Sakauye, a Republican appellate court justice with a reputation as a moderate, to be chief justice of the California Supreme Court, the Bee learned Tuesday. Cantil-Sakauye, 50, of Sacramento is a former prosecutor and Sacramento Superior Court judge. She would replace Chief Justice Ronald […]
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By Carrie Peyton Dahlberg, Sacramento Bee Barbara Chaccour’s teenage daughter needed a dermatologist, so Chaccour picked one from a glossy magazine ad. Months later, the Sacramento businesswoman was shocked to learn that her daughter’s doctor had been convicted and fined for using research drugs instead of Botox, and that his medical license was on probation. […]
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By Brian VanderBeek, Sacramento Bee The lack of any major fire activity during the first half of the summer has firefighters knocking on wood. And there’s a lot of wood on which to knock. The higher-than-normal rainfall in a longer-than-normal rainy season has produced grasses nearly everywhere, and the bumper crop of herbaceous fuel has […]
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By Kathryn Reed Power has been flickering off for brief moments for the past two mornings on the South Shore. NV Energy took the main line serving the Meyers substation out of service on July 19. “When that occurred, the electric load was shifted to another line on Kingsbury Grade with a wire that had […]
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By Kathryn Reed Money, or the lack of it, could derail the Lake Tahoe Basin-wide effort to create defensible space throughout the region. In the last five years, $10.4 million has come to the Nevada Fire Safe Council via the Southern Nevada Public Lands Management Act. That resource is drying up because the sale of […]
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By Bobby Caina Calvan, Sacramento Bee State health officials today urged more Californians to get vaccinated for whooping cough, as the disease grew to epidemic proportions. To date, about 1,500 people in California have become infected with pertussis — a five-fold increase from the same time last year. Five infants, all under 3 months old, […]
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Nancy Cushing, retiring CEO of Squaw Valley Ski Corporation, has appointed Andy Wirth to the position of chief executive officer at Squaw Valley USA. Wirth will be responsible for all aspects of resort operations at Squaw Valley, and he will report directly to the board of directors at Squaw Valley Ski Corporation. Wirth will succeed […]
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By Jeff Delong, Reno Gazette-Journal Where there’s fire, there’s smoke. April Cole can certainly attest to that after a controlled burn at Lake Tahoe last April sent thick clouds of smoke billowing east to her home near the Carson City-Douglas County line. “It was terrible. Oh my gosh, we couldn’t even breathe,” Cole said of […]
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Google has chosen the Nevada Commission on Tourism’s online winter ski commercial as a success-story case study after it attracted 8 million viewers in seven targeted markets. JoLyn Laney, NCOT’s deputy director for marketing and advertising, will to participate in an advertisers’ panel discussion of in-stream video at the Destination Marketing Association International Convention in […]
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By Kathryn Reed The much talked about Highway 50 improvements from Trout Creek to Ski Run Boulevard in South Lake Tahoe are moving forward. The California Transportation Commission approved the Caltrans project on June 30. It will start next summer. The project includes class II bike trails, lighting, walkways and an improved driving surface. The […]
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