By Tom Knudson, Sacramento Bee As director of the emergency room at the UC Davis Medical Center, Robert Derlet always wondered what made people sick. Each summer, on hiking trips into the high Sierra, he brought that curiosity along, asking himself: Where do you get infections in the wilderness? The most obvious possibility, he believed, […]
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By Kathryn Reed When ratepayers in South Tahoe Public Utility District incurred a 4 percent hike in 2007 it generated about $668,000 in revenue. Salary and benefit increases that year for STPUD totaled about $750,000. When ratepayers incurred another 4 percent hike in 2008 it raised about $700,000, with the district spending about $1.7 million […]
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By Steve Green, Las Vegas Sun Harrah’s Entertainment Inc. today reported a first quarter loss on lower revenue as the recession continued to reduce spending at its big Las Vegas Strip resorts. The company said it lost $195.6 million vs. a loss in the year-ago first quarter of $132.7 million as revenue fell 2.9 percent […]
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Updated April 27 1:04pm. By Kathryn Reed Summer, the other season Lake Tahoe has besides winter, is 55 days away, according to the calendar. That must mean winter is still here. To confirm that fact, the National Weather Service has issued a winter weather advisory from 5pm today through 9am Wednesday for elevations above 7,000 […]
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Eneliko Smith, one of the partners in opening the The Block hotel in South Lake Tahoe, pleaded no contest to one count of felony theft in El Dorado County Superior Court for not paying the hotel tax to the city. The investigation began in March 2008 when the police department received multiple disturbance calls related […]
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Updated April 27 8:23am. By Kathryn Reed If Lake Tahoe Community College President Paul Killpatrick has his way, he won’t complete his three-year contract that expires in summer 2011. Killpatrick is one of four finalists for the president’s job at Green River Community College in Auburn, Wash. A decision on that job is not expected […]
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NV Energy Inc. (NYSE: NVE) today announced a consolidated net loss of $1.7 million, or 1 cent per share, for the quarter ended March 31, 2010, compared with a consolidated net loss of $22.2 million, or 9 cents per share, for the quarter ended March 31, 2009. The improvement in the first quarter 2010 versus […]
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By Kathryn Reed A major accident Saturday morning in front of Lira’s Market in Meyers sent two people to Renown Medical Center in Reno with major injuries and one to Barton Memorial Hospital in South Lake Tahoe. The two people in a mini van refused treatment. This was one of four accidents the local California […]
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The U.S. Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit may begin planting native seedlings in the Angora Fire area this week if soil conditions are appropriate. Reforesting the area with native species such as Jeffrey pine, sugar pine, incense cedar and red fir will speed up progress toward healthier forest conditions, according the Forest Service. […]
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By Mark Anderson, Sacramento Business Journal Bank of America has filed a notice of default against the Ritz-Carlton Highlands Lake Tahoe, a luxury resort that opened just four months ago. The notice of default, filed at the end of March, claims the Highlands Hotel Co. LLC is $18.6 million in default on the hotel and […]
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