By Kathryn Reed Lake Tahoe Community College wants to see more local students enrolling in the two-year institution. From Lake Tahoe Unified School District’s class of 2012 66.4 percent went to LTCC the following fall; class of 2013 – 66.5 percent; 2014 – 60.7 percent; and 2015 – 56.4 percent. It was noted that with […]
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Douglas County School District has set dates for when students will end this school year. Zephyr Cove Elementary and Whittell High schools end the year June 22, valley schools end June 8. Snow days – of which there were five at the lake this winter – can extend the year. — Lake Tahoe News staff […]
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By Sandra Chereb, Las Vegas Review-Journal CARSON CITY — Legislators would meet every year for limited times and be paid on a regular basis under a proposed constitutional amendment introduced Monday in the Nevada Senate. Lawmakers have tried for years without success to change the state Constitution to allow for annual sessions. The Constitution limits […]
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By James Cook, BBC News On the banks of California’s Feather River, way below the tallest dam in the United States, is a ballet of steel and stone. The dancers are huge earth-moving machines, their costumes bright yellow. The movement at the Oroville dam is constant and mesmerizing. The average age of the 90,000 […]
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Most gaming venues in Nevada reported declines in February compared to 2016, with the statewide gaming win down 4.5 percent or $945.6 million. Stateline casinos were off 6.93 percent at $15.053 million. North Shore casinos were down 3.66 percent or nearly $2 million. Downtown Las Vegas was the only market of the 19 in the […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Tahoe Public Utility District is in line to get a $297,606 grant from the Bureau of Reclamation to be used for its water meter project. California is mandating most water districts install meters by 2025. The original thinking was that this would get people to lower their use of water. Comments […]
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By Darrell Etherington, TechCrunch Waymo is working on one of the key areas it still needs to tackle ahead of any general public launch of its self-driving technology: snow. The company’s vehicles still had a lot to learn in this specific realm as of late last year, and it’s one of the most challenging road […]
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By Richard Chang, Sacramento Bee The region’s Indian casino scene could soon get more crowded. With two casino projects on the horizon in an already bustling market, tribal operators old and new will have to offer entertainment and other amenities to retain the loyalty of customers in what experts say is a gaming market that […]
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The evidence of the unstable slope along Highway 50 at Logan Shoals continues to pile up in what was the No. 2 travel lane and along the shoulder. “Many of the boulders which have fallen into blocked-off travel lanes remain there as another physical object and barrier to help further diffuse and prevent future rock […]
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A Fresno man accidentally fell to his death from the top of Harveys’ parking garage on Sunday. David Garcia, 29, was found unresponsive next to the Stateline parking structure about 3am March 26. Witnesses told Douglas County sheriff’s deputies that Garcia had been drinking alcohol during the evening, and had left the casino at 2:20am. […]
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