By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – Travelers are looking for a deeper connection to their destination than just a Kodak moment. It’s as if they want a relationship with the locale and not just a fling. Being able to deliver what are in many ways intangibles is going to set the South Shore apart from other […]
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By David G. Savage, Los Angeles Times For only the fourth time in U.S. history, the presidential campaign has ended with an electoral college winner who won fewer votes than his opponent. Under the system established in the Constitution, in 1787, the winner is the candidate who wins the majority of electoral votes based on the state-by-state tallies, […]
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By Associated Press Among the changing red and yellow fall leaves of Yosemite National Park, nature artist Penny Otwell is marveling at the fullest rushing waterfalls and rivers she’s ever painted there in autumn. But down in the dry Southern California suburbs, David Cantuna laments the same dead and dying grass in his backyard. California’s […]
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By Evan Maxwell, Reno Gazette-Journal A legislative committee that oversees Lake Tahoe issues has endorsed a reorganization of the sewer district that serves Stateline casinos and more than 5,000 residential connections on the Nevada side of the lake. In taking the action last week, the Joint Legislative Committee that oversees the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency […]
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By Thomas Moore, Las Vegas Sun Nevada will soon begin testing skill-based games in casinos, one of Nevada’s main gaming regulators said last week. Manufacturer GameCo boasts that its products are the first skill-based games to be approved by any gaming regulator in the United States and are now operating in Atlantic City casinos. And field […]
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By Kathryn Reed El Dorado County is looking at redefining how medical care is provided to those who call 911 for an ambulance. Paramedicine is a growing service throughout the United States, and is a model being looked at locally. Potentially nurses could be riding in an ambulance. They would have the ultimate say over […]
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By Sean Whaley, Las Vegas Review-Journal Tuesday’s Blue Wave in Nevada’s state legislative races is likely to give Republicans a case of the blues as their brief fling with majority control becomes only a memory. GOP Gov. Brian Sandoval will now have to work with Democrats to push through his budget and legislative priorities in […]
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The controversial Martis Valley West project is now being challenged by two lawsuits. Sierra Watch, Mountain Area Preservation and the League to Save Lake Tahoe have joined forces to prevent the housing development in Truckee from going forward. The lawsuit was filed Nov. 10. On a 4-1 vote this fall, the Placer County supervisors approved the 760-unit project. The […]
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By Associated Press Government weather forecasters say La Nina is here. La Nina, the flip side of El Nino, is caused by the cooling of the central Pacific Ocean that affects weather patterns worldwide. Mike Halpert of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Thursday he expects La Nina conditions to be weak and short-lived. […]
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One insider and three outsiders are the finalists for the position of superintendent-president of Lake Tahoe Community College. The public may meet the four on Nov. 17. At 9am each finalist will have one hour to make a statement and answer questions, with a lunch break taking place from 12:45-2:30pm. The forums will finish at […]
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