By Kathryn Reed A gaping hole in the window of the fiscal services department remains four days after a burglar broke into the Lake Tahoe Community College office. “They pilfered through her drawers,” Sue Niehoff, vice president of Business Services, said of the person who broke into her assistant’s office. “They didn’t get anything of […]
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By Mark Anderson, Sacramento Business Journal Ritz-Carlton Highlands Lake Tahoe reopened for the spring and summer season Monday. The resort closed for its conversion from winter to spring a little over a week ago. The closure was said to be routine, but because the resort just opened Dec. 9, no routine was established. The spring […]
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By Cy Ryan, Las Vegas Sun CARSON CITY – Casinos along the Las Vegas Strip posted their fourth increased win in the past five months in March, buoyed by strong performances in Baccarat and sports betting with the college basketball tournament. Casinos in downtown Las Vegas, however, registered their 22nd consecutive month of declining gaming […]
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By Susan Wood and Kathryn Reed Twenty-four hours after the Earth experienced its warmest day on record, Mother Nature cooked up a winter storm for the Sierra Nevada that showed the extremes climatologists and even the “Farmers Almanac” predicted last fall. “We could have a very cool May. And if it stays this way, it […]
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By Marc Benjamin, Fresno Bee A state agency overseeing the 22-county Sierra region is preparing an ambitious plan to add jobs in mountain communities, keep forests healthy, protect water supplies and reduce fire danger. And, to make sure the Sustainable Sierra Nevada Initiative has wide support, the Sierra Nevada Conservancy is working with timber, environmental, […]
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Publisher’s note: Updated May 10 at 8:28am. A second storm system will arrive today and bring a mix of rain and snow to Northeast California and the Lake Tahoe Basin during the morning. By Monday afternoon it should be just snow falling, with it accumulating at higher elevations. At the lake, about 1-4 inches area […]
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By Kathryn Reed Does that sniffling sound from friends, family members and co-workers seem louder, more constant and earlier than years past? Allergy season is here – in the Lake Tahoe Basin, Carson Valley and seemingly everywhere else. Physicians’ offices affiliated with Barton Health have seen a 27 percent rise in allergy shots for the […]
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By Paul Rogers, Santa Cruz Sentinel A plan to charge California motorists $18 a year to shore up the state parks system’s financial troubles took another step toward the November ballot on Monday when environmental groups submitted about 760,000 signatures to election officials. Under state law, the campaign needs 433,931 valid signatures of registered California […]
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By Kathryn Reed Retirement is not a place Dennis Crabb wants to rush to. Instead, the long-time municipal attorney is easing into it. In June he will have given up all his lawyerly responsibilities except for attorney for Truckee and Happy Homestead Cemetery District. He is phasing out his job as counsel for Sutter Creek, […]
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Construction kicked into gear this week at Lake Tahoe, marking the beginning of the grading season in the basin. To protect from erosion, open digging and grading projects are limited to dry months between May 1 and Oct. 15 at Lake Tahoe. Regardless of the date, however, grading is limited to times that soil is […]
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