By Kathryn Reed Surprises. There have been a lot of them as crews put in water meters on the California side of the South Shore. One house had five lines to it. Pipes aren’t the size crews expected. Some lines are not straight. Others aren’t as deep as expected. Crews have dumped dirt on flowerbeds. […]
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By Ron Trujillo, Sacramento Business Journal Sacramento-area home prices are climbing off the mat, increasing 12.4 percent from the bottom reached in April 2009, according to a report released Monday. The four-county region — arguably one of the hardest hit, with an abundance of foreclosures and 35 percent-plus home price declines — had a median-home […]
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By Kathryn Reed A $6.8 million water quality and erosion control project along Kingsbury Grade will mean minor delays for people traveling along the route that links Stateline and the Carson Valley. Crews from El Camino Construction Company out of Las Vegas will not be onsite May 28-June 1 so Memorial Day weekend traffic will […]
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By Kathryn Reed Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said his May revise did not take away money form K-12 districts. But it’s a lie. At Tuesday’s Lake Tahoe Unified School District board meeting, CFO Deb Yates will explain how another $160,000 in cuts is coming to the district for 2010-11. It’s more of the funny math Sacramento […]
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By Frank X. Mullen Jr., Reno Gazette-Journal Reno is in fourth place nationally among cities that are “most doomed for divorce,” according to Men’s Health magazine. Las Vegas came in second after first-place Cheyenne, Wyo. Billings, Mont., was third on the list of 100 cities ranked in order of their propensity to become Splitsville. To […]
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By Kathryn Reed With a wind advisory nearly every day for the last week and presumably for much of the coming week for Lake Tahoe, the fact that May 22-28 is National Safe Boating Week may not be a factor in the Sierra if everyone is huddled indoors. The National Weather Service has a winter […]
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By Ray Hagar, Reno Gazette-Journal Reno-Tahoe International Airport is one of 28 national airports scheduled to receive full-body security scanning machines from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security this summer, according to a list released by the Transportation Security Administration. Reno airport executives will request that the instillation of the scanners — that can see […]
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By Lacey Peterson, Union Democrat Sonora and Ebbetts passes will likely be open by Memorial Day weekend, despite a series of late spring storms. “The weather has slowed us down a bit,” said Charly Modrell, Caltrans supervisor based at Camp Connell on Highway 4, “but we should make it unless a freak major snowstorm hits […]
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By Kathryn Reed It was certainly a production worthy of names like Nannette Niven, Bob Grant and J.J. Clause being associated with it. And it was definitely an original. The three South Tahoe High School performing arts teachers were recognized Thursday for their dedication to their specialties as well as their vision toward the future. […]
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By KCRA-TV A California Highway Patrol officer arrested on several drug charges previously had been fired because of drug-related accusations, KCRA 3 has learned. Officer Ruben Salgado has been locked up in jail for more than a week in Placer County, where he was arraigned on felony counts. CHP brass previously described Salgado as an […]
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