Publisher’s note: The DUI checkpoint for tonight has been canceled. The South Lake Tahoe Police Department will be conducting a DUI/driver’s License checkpoint on June 21 from 8pm-1am along Lake Tahoe Boulevard and Pioneer Trail. The department is continuing its efforts at lowering the number of people killed and injured in alcohol involved crashes locally […]
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By Sam Stanton and Chelsea Phua, Sacramento Bee On a bright, sunny afternoon last week, about 60 people gathered inside Thunder Valley Casino, pressed together five deep at the midi baccarat tables, where the stakes go up to $2,000 a hand. Others sat intently at the pai gow poker tables nearby. Almost all were of […]
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Douglas County Sheriff’s Office is partnering with AlertID to protect missing and injured children. In an emergency, AlertID will enable the sheriff’s office or other emergency personnel to instantly access vital information to help identify and protect children. This system is the first of its kind and goes far beyond identifying a child after there […]
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By John Seelmeyer, Northern Nevada Business Weekly The top executive of a small developer of audio systems headquartered at Incline Village thinks his company will gain a big voice though an alliance with a global manufacturer of lighting systems. Artison LLC partnered with OSRAM Sylvania to market a product developed by Artison that allows consumers […]
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By Kathryn Reed It could be a matter of days before the next city manager of South Lake Tahoe is named. The City Council is interviewing two candidates today and a quasi-public panel will interview the men Monday. Councilman Bill Crawford is declining to be part of today’s process. “I’m not participating in the selection […]
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By Jessica Holzer, Dow Jones WASHINGTON – Nevada Security Bank of Reno was closed (Friday) by state regulators, bringing the number of failed U.S. banks in 2010 to 83. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. was appointed receiver. Umpqua Bank of Roseburg, Ore. entered into an agreement with the FDIC to assume all of Nevada Security’s […]
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By Alan Duke, CNN LOS ANGELES — Kenneth Slayton wants to get a message to Jaycee Dugard, the California woman kidnapped as a child and held captive for 18 years. Slayton would like to get together with Dugard and her two children on Father’s Day, but he said he is being blocked from communicating with […]
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By Kathryn Reed Even though the South Shore bus system’s assets have been frozen by a Nevada court, the interim operator lined up to take over at noon Sunday has said it will still do so. On Wednesday, District Court Judge Dave Gamble froze South Tahoe Area Transportation Authority’s assets, bank accounts and fare box […]
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By Kathryn Reed Highway 50 over Echo Summit will be reduced to one lane for much of next week to repair a retaining wall that was damaged June 14. David Irwin, 52, of Rocklin was driving his big-rig down the summit into the Lake Tahoe Basin about 3:10pm Monday when his trailer took out a […]
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By Kathryn Reed Cost overruns for the South Tahoe Public Utility District water meter project are approaching a half million dollars. Campbell Construction Company as of June 16 had put in 165 of the 1,261 meters in the Lake Tahoe Basin portion of El Dorado County that it has been contracted to install. “During the […]
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