By Jenny Kane, Reno Gazette-Journal The millionaires who helped the Burning Man Project buy Fly Ranch for $6.5 million include a cofounder of Airbnb, a cofounder of Cirque du Soleil, an Iranian photographer and one of the first investors of Twitter, Snapchat and Instagram. On Thursday, Burning Man organizers announced the names of the donors who helped the […]
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By Kevin Smith, San Gabriel Valley Tribune If you think California is a tough place to do business, you’re not alone. A report from CNBC confirms what scores of companies have long suspected — California is the least business-friendly state in the nation. CNBC’s 10th annual America’s Top States for Business study places the Golden […]
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By Kathryn Reed There was so little evidence to support any wrongdoing by El Dorado County Auditor-Controller Joe Harn that he wasn’t even asked to defend himself. “I never spoke to anyone from the Attorney General’s Office. I was never informed by the attorney general that I was under investigation,” Harn told Lake Tahoe News. “I […]
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By Melissa Healy, Los Angeles Times On May 18, a team working at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research here had its first look at a sample of the bacterium Escherichia coli, taken from a 49-year-old woman in Pennsylvania. She had a urinary tract infection with a disconcerting knack for surviving the assaults of […]
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By Seth A. Richardson, Reno Gazette-Journal Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s top advisers wanted him to consider Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval as a possible vice-presidential pick, according to an article in the New York Times magazine. The article written by Robert Draper and published Wednesday details the selection process Trump undertook before finally deciding on Indiana […]
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By Tom Randall, Bloomberg Last month wasn’t just the hottest June on record—it continued the longest-ever streak of record-breaking months: 14. The start of summer in the Northern Hemisphere gave us the hottest June since 1880, according to data released Tuesday by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. That follows the hottest May, April, March, February, January, December, November, […]
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By Kathryn Reed More than 500 affordable housing units could begin to be built on the South Shore in 2017. Patrick Taylor of Cave Rock is in escrow to buy the former Kingsbury Middle School and Wells Fargo Bank properties, both of which are in Stateline. “Everyone who has lived here a long time knows […]
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A 43-year-old kayaker died at Lake Tahoe on Tuesday. Paul Anthony Aguirre of Rio Linda was paddling with family near El Dorado Beach on July 19 when he became separated. Family members found his kayak floating several hundred yards off shore just before 5pm. His life jacket was inside. Timber Cove Marina located the victim […]
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Update 8:28pm: Helicopter crews are using Lake Tahoe to scoop up water to put out a blaze in Desolation Wilderness. While the fire was reported Wednesday morning near Azure Lake, crews were still making drops as late as 5:30pm July 20. U.S. Forest Service officials say it is less than one-half acre. In addition to the helicopter […]
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By James Rufus Koren, Los Angeles Times California’s largest public pension fund made a return of less than 1 percent in its most recent fiscal year, the fund’s worst performance since 2009. The California Public Employees’ Retirement System said Monday that its rate of return for the year ended June 30 was just 0.61 percent. […]
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