By Lake Tahoe News Florida-based CNL Lifestyle Properties is selling Northstar and Sierra-at-Tahoe ski resorts to EPR Properties of Kansas City, Mo. “CNL has had the profile for sale for a while, Booth Creek Resort Properties owns the management contract with them. I work for Booth Creek and nothing will change for Sierra when and […]
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By Richard N. Velotta, Las Vegas Review-Journal The Las Vegas company that manages the casino at the Westgate Las Vegas Resort has received preliminary approval to acquire a majority interest of the Hard Rock Hotel at Lake Tahoe. The state Gaming Control Board on Wednesday unanimously recommended approval of a series of management and ownership […]
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By Kathryn Reed One big negative to more visitors in the area is that they leave behind garbage for Clean Tahoe crews to pick up. “We have definitely noticed a correlation between the busiest times of year and higher amounts of litter collected,” Catherine Cecchi, who heads up the nonprofit, told Lake Tahoe News. Clean […]
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Updated Nov.2 3pm: By Kathryn Reed A court decision today upheld the validity of Tahoe Regional Planning Agency’s 2012 Regional Plan update. The Sierra Club and Friends of the West Shore, represented by Earthjustice, filed a lawsuit saying the environmental impact statement for the RPU failed to analyze how the document will have negative impacts […]
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By Kathryn Reed Two former El Dorado County supervisors do not have the right to back pay, according to a tentative ruling that came out last week. Norma Santiago and Ron Briggs filed their original petition for writ of mandate on Sept. 25, 2015, in El Dorado County Superior Court. Because all the local judges […]
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By Kathryn Reed Twenty years ago it was recommended that herbicides be used in the Tahoe Keys to rid the canals of invasive weeds. That reality is inching closer, but is still two years off at the earliest. No longer is it just Eurasian milfoil choking the waterways of this South Lake Tahoe neighborhood. Curlyleaf […]
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By Matt Stevens, Los Angeles Times Californians halted a three-month slide in water conservation in September, saving enough to hearten state regulators who had previously expressed alarm about possible drought fatigue. Residents and businesses cut their water consumption by 18.3 percent in September compared with the same month in 2013. The savings represented a slight uptick from the […]
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Two suspects were arrested last week on the South Shore in connection with burglaries totaling more than $10,000 in stolen items from people in South Lake Tahoe, El Dorado County and Douglas County. After receiving calls on Oct. 25 of several vehicles in the Camp Richardson area being burglarized, El Dorado County sheriff’s deputies […]
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By Nicholas K. Geranios, AP The Western United States set records for low winter snowpack levels in 2015, and a new report blames high temperatures rather than low precipitation levels. Greenhouse gases appear to be a major contributor to the high temperatures, according to the study published Monday in the journal Geophysical Research Letters. Scientists […]
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By Sean Whaley, Las Vegas Review-Journal VIRGINIA CITY — If you want to vote in the upcoming general election in this former mining boomtown you might have to go to jail first. Early voters in much of Storey County are voting in the former jail of the city’s historic county courthouse. It will be in […]
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