A former Stateline nightclub worker is likely going to prison. Joseph I. Guillen, 37, is scheduled to be sentenced Aug. 22. He admitted to taking nearly $10,000 from Peek inside Harrah’s Lake Tahoe when he worked there in 2015. Guillen was a bartender in the VIP area. — Lake Tahoe News staff report
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A second search warrant was executed this month at the home of Niki Congero who is under investigation for allegedly embezzling from Lake Tahoe Humane Society. More evidence was seized from the house where she was living in the states street area of South Lake Tahoe. She has not been arrested nor charged with any […]
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A red flag warning has been issued for today from 1-11pm for northeastern California and western Nevada. This means the fire danger is extreme. The National Weather Service in Reno said the combination of high winds and low humidity through June 27 will pose a greater fire risk. This means people should be on even […]
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By Carole Jablon-Bernardi TRUCKEE – Truckee Tahoe Airport District doesn’t fall short when living up to its slogan, “Connected by more than a runway.” Between 2012-16, there was a steady uptick in the economy and the airport authority noticed demand became greater. In 2016 the airport had 32,524 flight operations (landings and take offs) which […]
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By Ivan Penn, Los Angeles Times As record-setting temperatures surged into the triple digits in parts of California last week, the manager of the state’s electrical grid put out an urgent plea: Turn down the AC and conserve power to avoid rotating outages. The two-day flex alert by the California Independent System Operator drew […]
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By Chris Kudialis, Las Vegas Sun In a Legislature in which the ratio of women to men was among the country’s highest, gender equality issues ranging from tampon taxes to equal pay were advanced. Representing less than a quarter of the nation’s lawmakers, women held almost 40 percent of the seats across Nevada’s Senate and […]
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There is some temporary rejiggering going on within the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit headquarters in South Lake Tahoe. Forest Supervisor Jeff Marsolais is currently the acting deputy regional forester role for the Pacific Southwest Region. He should be back in Tahoe in mid-August. Teresa McClung, who came on board last fall as deputy forest […]
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By Richard N. Velotta, Las Vegas Review-Journal Policies on how the legal use of marijuana will affect the gaming industry are expected to be aired next month as regulators grapple with the oncoming legalization of recreational pot. Nevada Gaming Commission members took advantage of an unrelated company licensing Thursday to glean information about how Colorado […]
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By Micah Madenberg, New York Times The travel industry is voicing a common refrain: President Trump’s travel ban, terror attacks in Europe and a laptop ban represent a recipe for a potential sharp decline in visitors to and from the United States. “When you hear words like ‘travel ban,’ it puts a big chill” on […]
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By Amy Graff, San Francisco Chronicle The process of the Sierra Nevada spring snow melt sped up last week as a heat wave brought triple-digit temperatures to parts of the Western United States. More than 12 billion gallons of water poured into Lake Tahoe over the past week. That staggering amount of water resulted in […]
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