By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – Kahle Drive is an auto repair shop’s dream. It’s that bad. Douglas County owns this Stateline road, but it’s Oliver Park General Improvement District that is responsible for maintaining it and the other neighborhood streets. The five-member board that operates the GID plans to fix the potholes, but the problem […]
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By Carole Jablon-Bernardi INCLINE VILLAGE – When a college is competing to maintain enrollment, even grow it, and is faced with rising tuition costs to offset expenses, faculty can become the target. Such is the case at Sierra Nevada College. The administration of the four-year liberal arts institution in Incline Village announced to faculty members […]
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By Kathryn Reed Fences in the water and along the beach on the Nevada side of Lake Tahoe continue to be an issue. The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency was able to get the Tahoe Beach Club to remove its temporary fence, as well as the illegal fence at a property north of Cave Rock and […]
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By Richard N. Velotta, Las Vegas Review-Journal Representatives of the Nevada Commission on Tourism plan to join a trade mission to India in September that’s part of a program President Trump wants to eliminate. Lt. Gov. Mark Hutchison, who chairs the commission, told the board Wednesday that he would be participating in a Brand USA […]
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By Kathryn Reed KINGS BEACH – Despite an ongoing lawsuit that could upend the Tahoe City Lodge project, more pieces of the development were secured last week at the California Tahoe Conservancy meeting. The state board on June 15 agreed to sell 16 residential and tourist accommodation units that would equate to 61 usable units […]
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By Scott Sonner, AP Recreational sales of marijuana in Nevada may not begin next month after all. A judge added to the uncertainty Tuesday when he extended a temporary order barring the state from issuing pot distribution licenses to existing medical marijuana dispensaries so they can begin recreational sales July 1. Carson City District Judge […]
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An underground utility problem has hundreds of people in Tahoe City without power. The outage was first reported at 11am June 21. At that time 1,500 customers had no electricity. Liberty Utilities has no estimate on when power will be full restored. — Lake Tahoe News staff report
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By Anshu Siripurapu, McClatchy After years of drought, the state of California is bracing for water. Lots of it. Maybe even a rerun of the havoc caused by the failure of the Oroville Dam this winter. As the record snows in the Sierra Nevada mountains begin to melt, there’s concern this spring and summer that […]
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The Truckee Artist Lofts suffered another funding setback, but the town leaders are not giving up on the affordable housing project. Twice now the project has failed to receive the 9 percent California Low-Income Housing Tax Credit. The proposal is for 77 apartments in a four-story building ranging from studios to three bedrooms, with a […]
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By Kathryn Reed The time it takes to get from point A to point B all depends on the time year. Construction and snow are variables, but the real impact is tourists. There are two main reasons they are staying in their vehicles. One, there isn’t reliable transit for them to use once they are […]
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