By Suzanne Woolley, Bloomberg Retirement savers are upping their game: A record 13.6 percent of 401(k) participants raised their savings rate during the first quarter this year. Overall, employee contributions, combined with employer matching funds and profit sharing, rose 12.7 percent to reach another record. Not only are savings rates up, but more people are […]
Read more
By Brady McCombs, AP SALT LAKE CITY — The Salt Lake Tribune‘s pending sale to the wealthy Huntsman family unshackles the newspaper from cost-cutting corporate owners and resolves crippling financial uncertainty — but it also raises concerns about whether the influential family will meddle in the paper’s coverage. The same question has come up after […]
Read more
By Kathryn Reed California’s tourism industry is coming off its sixth consecutive record year, and South Lake Tahoe is part of that trend. “We are looking at an industry that is about 2.5 percent of the state’s economy,” Caroline Beteta, Visit California president and CEO, said during a conference call this week. “This tremendous growth […]
Read more
Updated 2:05pm A suspected pipe bomb was found this morning outside the El Dorado County Superior Courthouse in South Lake Tahoe. The Tahoe Douglas bomb squad X-rayed the device. No explosives were found, though it was described as a “mock device” by officials. Police are investigating who may have left the device that was put together […]
Read more
The Nevada Department of Transportation has begun a project to enhance the Mt. Rose Highway truck escape ramp. The truck ramp, located on the westbound side of the highway in Incline Village, will be converted from the current rock surface to asphalt. A series of six pre-tensioned drag nets will be added to the truck […]
Read more
By Kathryn Reed Old construction is one of the main reasons so many units in a Tahoe Keys condo complex were destroyed on Tuesday. “The fire was hidden in a bunch of void spaces due to construction. Once it was in the common attic it was really hard to cut off. That is why […]
Read more
By Kathryn Reed Audience question: What causes climate change? Rep. Tom McClintock’s answer: “It’s a natural phenomenon. It has more to do with solar cycles than human activity.” To this, most of the 50 people in attendance at the May 3 town hall at South Tahoe Public Utility District’s board room erupted in disbelief. Based […]
Read more
By Jeff German, Las Vegas Review-Journal Former power broker Harvey Whittemore was released from a federal halfway house Monday after serving 21 months of a two-year prison term for breaking campaign contribution laws. Whittemore, 63, who surrendered in August 2014 at a federal prison camp in Lompoc, California, spent the last three months in the […]
Read more
By Kathryn Reed A fire is raging out of a control at a condo in the Tahoe Keys this afternoon. Firefighters are working to get a handle on the blaze that erupted about 2pm May 3. Flames were shooting at least 10 feet into the air from a middle unit on Ala Wai, just down […]
Read more
By Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazette-Journal Instagram isn’t having a filter malfunction. Nevada’s valleys and hillsides really are carpeted in lush, green vegetation. Science, in the form of satellite data, is showing us that the country’s driest state is much greener than normal thanks to El Nino-fueled storms that dumped rain and snow across the Sierra […]
Read more