By Kathryn Reed A $211,000 shortfall is requiring BlueGo to tweak bus routes in South Lake Tahoe — again. It seems like every few months officials from the South Shore bus agency come before the South Lake Tahoe City Council with either proposed route changes or fare increases. On Tuesday there will be a public […]
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KCRA-TV SACRAMENTO — AT&T is planning to lay off 525 technicians statewide by the end of March. Local union president Joel Nielsen said those layoffs would affect about 54 or 90 technicians that work out of Placerville and serve Auburn, Folsom, Placerville, Sacramento, Truckee, and the Lake Tahoe region. Read the whole story
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By Ray Hagar, Reno Gazette-Journal With the stroke of midnight Monday, the transaction for the new ownership of the Carson Valley Inn was finalized. The new ownership team of noted thoroughbred owner Mike Pegram and the Carano family wasted little time to begin renovations on the 25-year old property. “At 12:01 last night, the Carano […]
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By Frank X. Mullen Jr., Reno Gazette-Journal Two horses died and a third leaped over a fence and escaped through barbed wire in the first week of a roundup of wild horses in the Black Rock Desert 100 miles north of Reno. The federal Bureau of Land Management, which plans to gather 2,500 mustangs over […]
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By Kathryn Reed With youths starting to try alcohol and other drugs at an earlier age, agencies throughout the South Shore of Lake Tahoe are trying to do something to curb that trend. Drug Store Project is dropping a grade level, with the March 31 program targeting sixth-graders for the first time. The all-day reality […]
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Updated Jan. 3 at 4:54pm. By Kathryn Reed Kirkwood Mountain Resort ran chairs 11 and 2 today because the electrical connection to the rest of the chairs was not working. Resort officials say that problem has been solved. Kirkwood anticipates all lifts being in operation on Jan. 4. “The lifts are not reacting well with […]
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By Cathy Locke, Sacramento Bee A request for a “visitor information” sign on Highway 50 has morphed into a program that El Dorado Hills Chamber of Commerce officials hope will boost regional tourism and local economies from Davis to South Lake Tahoe. The chamber in early December received approval to operate a California Welcome Center. […]
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Updated Jan. 2 at 4:51pm. By Kathryn Reed Lights are slowly returning to Kirkwood and lifts are expected to operate Sunday after a fire destroyed the power plant at Kirkwood on New Year’s Day. Power was restored to the village area in the late afternoon Saturday, with lifts and some residences to have electricity as […]
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By Susan Ferriss, Sacramento Bee Voters in one of California’s most conservative bastions, the 1st Senate District, will cast ballots Tuesday in a special runoff election to replace state Sen. Dave Cox, a Republican who died last July. It’s an obscure date for an election, turnout will likely be small, and political insiders say the […]
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By Richard N. Velotta, Las Vegas Sun Executives with the Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority and its contracted advertising agency, R&R Partners, will meet early this month to determine if the city’s popular “What happens here, stays here†television ads can be aired during the Super Bowl. Other tourism companies say they’re working to […]
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