By Justin Ewers, PublicCEO It didn’t get much attention outside San Diego, but it may well have been the biggest step a political coalition has taken this year to shift the focus of a major city onto a crisis impacting millions of Californians—and moving rapidly up the income scale. “More than 70 percent of San […]
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Tahoe Keys property owners have voted to assess themselves the necessary fees to pay for the use of herbicides to rid the South Lake Tahoe canals of invasive weeds. Now the Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board must approve the application, with the goal to start using the chemicals in 2018. Homeowners will pay up […]
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By Ann M. Simmons, Los Angels Times They cover a third of the world’s landmass, help to regulate the atmosphere, and offer shelter, sustenance and survival to millions of people, plants and animals. But despite some progress, the planet’s woodlands continue to disappear on a dramatic scale. Since 1990 the world has lost the […]
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By Yvonne Gonzalez, Las Vegas Sun CARSON CITY — Long lines and frustrated voters that accompanied Nevada caucuses in 2016 were not enough to sway lawmakers toward a primary system. Legislative efforts from both parties to return to presidential primaries have failed to gain traction over the years, with the most recent failed push marked […]
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By Kathryn Reed While there are plenty of senior citizens on the South Lake Tahoe City Council and El Dorado County Board of Supervisors, leadership seems to be lacking – at least when it comes to how to manage a senior center. Members of the two elected bodies, along with staff from both agencies met […]
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By Sho Chandra, Bloomberg Sales of previously owned U.S. homes rose more than forecast in March to the fastest pace in a decade, signaling sustained momentum in the housing market despite higher prices and scarce supply, a report from the National Association of Realtors showed Friday. Contract closings jumped 4.4 percent to a 5.71 million […]
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The National Weather Service in Reno has issued a weeklong flood advisory for the Truckee River in Tahoe City. In anticipation of runoff from the extreme snowpack in the basin water managers on April 21 increased the flow leaving Lake Tahoe through the dam in Tahoe City. The flows will be the highest they have […]
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By Daniel Borenstein, Bay Area News Group Lodi City Manager Steve Schwabauer worries about his town’s fiscal solvency — and estimates roughly a third of California’s municipalities are in the same position because of rising pension costs. Nancy Kerry, city manager of South Lake Tahoe, says her community will avoid bankruptcy but will have to make […]
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By Paul Singer, USA Today ELKRIDGE, Md. — If you are recycling at home, you are probably doing it wrong. That is why a worker lunged to grab a garden hose off the conveyor belt at a Waste Management recycling facility here Wednesday before it got caught in a giant sorting machine. Such tangles frequently require the plant […]
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By Joann Eisenbrandt The anti-Dollar General store advocates in El Dorado County won in court. El Dorado County Superior Court Judge Warren Curt Stracener on April 14 ruled in favor of the Georgetown Preservation Society to stop construction of a 9,100-square-foot Dollar General store on Main Street in the historic mining town of Georgetown. Stracener’s […]
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