By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – Hotel guests in Stateline are going to help fund the special events center that is going to be built on the front parking lot of MontBleu at Highway 50. The Tahoe Douglas Visitors Authority board this week approved raising the Douglas County lodging license fee. Now the county commissioners must […]
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By Derek Hawkins, Washington Post A Chicago police officer who was savagely beaten at a car accident scene did not draw her gun on her attacker — even though she feared for her life — because she was afraid of the media attention that would come if she shot him, the city’s police chief said. […]
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AT&T reportedly lost at least one tower in the Emerald Fire, which caused Meyers and a large swath of South Lake Tahoe to be without phone and Internet service on Friday. AT&T could not be reached to find out when service might be restored. In addition to landlines being out, cell phone service was spotty […]
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El Dorado County is in the process of restoring the Meyers Creek in an effort to improve the ecosystem and watershed management. A $1.1 million grant from the California Tahoe Conservancy was the last piece of financing needed to go forward. Another nearly $1.4 million has been secured from the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit […]
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By Kathryn Reed Proposition 51 could turn out to be a mixed blessing for entities in South Lake Tahoe. If it passes, Lake Tahoe Unified School District intends to reopen Al Tahoe Elementary School next fall. If that happens, the Lake Tahoe Boys & Girls Club will be on the street. This is why the […]
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For the first time in more than 35 years Hard Rock hotels, casinos and cafes are being operated by the same company. Hard Rock International this month completed the acquisition of casino and hotel-casino rights in the Western United States, including Lake Tahoe, from BREF. It is not expected that there will be any changes […]
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By Kathryn Reed El Dorado County’s unfunded obligation to CalPERS now exceeds $280 million. Auditor-Controller Joe Harn this week let the Board of Supervisors know the debt grew by $51 million in one year. “The most recent report of our financial position with CalPERS is as of June 30, 2015. Since CalPERS investment earnings for […]
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Updated 7:10pm: By Susan Wood CAMP RICHARDSON — The Emerald Fire burning near Cascade Lake is 80 percent contained. It has burned more than 200 acres. According to Kit Bailey, U.S. Forest Service local fire chief, “We have stopped the forward progress.” The fire, though, is unpredictable. At one point the flames were going toward Lake […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – The conversion of Kingsbury Middle School into affordable housing is in jeopardy because the county has not completed the area plan that encompasses the site and the allowable number of vehicle miles has been drastically reduced per Tahoe Regional Planning Agency rules. Patrick Taylor in July entered into an agreement […]
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Updated 11:40pm: A wildfire that started at 5:30pm on Thursday in Carson City has been fully contained. The actual acreage burned had not been reported. While several structures were threatened and residents had to be evacuated in south Carson City, no buildings were lost. Crews are expected to be at the Clear Creek Fire site through the night, especially with the […]
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