Placer County and North Lake Tahoe Resort Association extended their contract one month to allow the two entities to continue discussing how their partnership goes forward. The county this spring proposed a drastically different arrangement than the tourist agency wanted. Continuing its investment in the infrastructure and marketing of eastern Placer County and North Lake […]
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A couple and their 3-year-old daughter survived a personal watercraft accident Saturday afternoon near Timber Cove Marina. The man was driving when for unknown reasons the watercraft rolled, tossing all three into Lake Tahoe. They were all wearing life jackets. The girl and her dad were taken to Barton Memorial Hospital. It took a combination […]
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By Aaron Mendelson, KQED-TV Colorado and Washington saw vehicle searches by police officers fall dramatically after legalizing marijuana — a trend that could have implications in California, where voters legalized recreational pot last November. Researchers with Stanford University’s Open Policing Project found the trend buried in data on 130 million traffic stops by state patrol […]
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Placer County is on a quest to improve traffic flow in the North Lake Tahoe region with a renewed focus on meeting those needs through improvements to public transit, and pedestrian and cycling paths. Supervisors this week updated the project list. Transportation infrastructure improvements throughout the county are partly funded through fees charged to developers, […]
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By Anita Chabria, Sacramento Bee Alisa Holleron and her group of political activists were calling Rep. Tom McClintock’s offices every day for months when they started receiving what she describes as a “chilling” greeting from his staff a few weeks ago. “They started saying that we were impeding … the functioning of a federal […]
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Tragedy was averted Friday with the help of North Tahoe firefighters. A man needed rescuing from the Truckee River near River Ranch on June 30 at about 2:20pm. “Apparently he was tubing down the Truckee River when he got stuck on one of the pilings of a bridge due to a complication of a rope […]
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By Kathryn Reed While graduations are a time to celebrate accomplishments, they are also the demarcation of new beginnings. And so today begins a new chapter in the lives of 151 students who on June 30 said farewell to Lake Tahoe Community College. “Take a piece of Tahoe love and spread it across the planet […]
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By Matt Stoller, Huffington Post To understand the depth and breadth of Jeff Bezos’ ambitions for the company he built, type www.relentless.com into your browser. The domain Bezos registered in 1994 will redirect to Amazon, the company aptly, and ambitiously, nicknamed The Everything Store. He tells his shareholders that the company will act like […]
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By Meghin Delaney, Las Vegas Review-Journal An ambitious goal to improve Nevada students’ performance on a college readiness test might take a little longer to get moving. For the third consecutive year, the average ACT score of more than 34,000 students in the state — the majority of them high school juniors — was stagnant […]
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By Dale Kasler, Sacramento Bee CalPERS lost a big case at the U.S. Supreme Court this week. The decision will cost California government retirees a shot at recovering tens of millions of dollars. The court voted 5-4 to dismiss a lawsuit CalPERS filed against a slew of investment banks over the notorious collapse of Lehman […]
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