By Rob Gillies, AP Foreign nationals who don’t live in Toronto and its surrounding communities will pay an additional 15 percent tax on homes under legislation proposed by the Ontario government. Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne made the announcement Thursday in an effort to cool a hot housing market in Canada’s largest city. It matches the […]
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By Kathryn Reed Lake Tahoe Humane Society’s fired executive director is accused of stealing thousands of dollars from the organization and spending the bulk of the money at a Stateline casino. Niki Congero was suspended by the three-member board of directors on March 14, with termination coming on March 31. The board has gone to […]
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By Paul Rogers, San Jose Mercury News California’s historic five-year drought is officially over, washed away with the relentlessly drenching rains, floods and snowstorms of this winter. But just as tougher building codes and better emergency planning follow major earthquakes, the brutally dry years from 2012 to 2016 are already leaving a legacy, experts say, changing […]
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By Marcella Corona, Reno Gazette-Journal Authorities in Sierra County are searching for a missing aircraft that was carrying a married couple from Truckee to Petaluma earlier this week. Mark Richard and his wife, Brenda, departed at about 4pm Monday from the Truckee Tahoe Airport in a small four-seat Socata TB20 Trinidad with tail No. N28070. […]
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By Patrick Clark, Bloomberg Urbanists often lament that developers no longer erect the small apartment buildings that were once a staple of city neighborhoods. Instead, they construct single family homes or large apartment buildings. There are good reasons to revive this “missing middle,” however: Small buildings are a good way to add density without compromising […]
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Hot ashes dumped into a trash can inside of a garage erupted into flames Wednesday afternoon. South Lake Tahoe firefighters were able to keep the fire to the garage of the Tahoe Vista Drive house. The occupants of the house were able to get out without injury. Firefighters urge people to dispose of ashes in […]
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By Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazette-Journal The mountain snowpack is fat but funding to unravel what it means for western communities and the environment is thin. That’s the dynamic facing scientists who study climate, snow and water in California and Nevada. They gathered this month for the fifth Great Basin Climate Forum at the Desert Research […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Tahoe Public Utility District’s board on April 20 is expected to allocate up to $100,000 for emergency repairs on a ruptured sewer line crossing Tahoe Keys Boulevard in South Lake Tahoe. Crews from Thomas Haen Company were to arrive Wednesday to begin fixing the problem. It could be more than a […]
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By Lake Tahoe News Both sides in the legal battle involving the proposed development at Squaw Valley are saying a court ruling this week benefits them. Sierra Watch filed a lawsuit last fall against Placer County contending CEQA, the California Environmental Quality Act, and the state’s open meeting law – the Brown Act – were […]
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By Peter Hecht, Sacramento Bee The recent gathering at the Sheraton Grand hotel in Sacramento would have been improbable just a few years ago. Marijuana farmers – clad in plaid shirts and jeans, and looking like, well, farmers – openly assembled for a meeting of the California Growers Association. But the trade group’s agenda topic […]
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