By Kathryn Reed Signs – the fee for a permit and one that doesn’t meet the letter of the law – were hot topics at the Tuesday South Lake Tahoe City Council meeting. A unanimous vote by the South Lake Tahoe City Council on Oct. 20 immediately reduced the fee for sign permits. It’s an […]
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By Daniel Rothberg, Las Vegas Sun Security personnel at Tesla’s Northern Nevada battery manufacturing plant engaged in a violent skirmish with two employees of the Reno Gazette-Journal earlier this month and rammed their vehicle with an ATV, according to a letter from the newspaper’s counsel. According to the attorney’s letter, the alleged assailants, apparently security […]
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By Thomas Curwen, Los Angeles Times Biologist Greg Asner first heard the numbers in April, but they did little to prepare him for what he saw. The Forest Service had estimated that nearly 12.5 million trees in the state’s southern and central forests were dead. But as Asner peered down upon the same forests from […]
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By Kathryn Reed On identical 4-1 votes Monday the South Lake Tahoe City Council ratified the city manager’s decision to ban Councilmember JoAnn Conner from interacting with staff and agreed to censure her. Conner was the dissenting vote on both measures. It took nearly 3½ hours to reach those conclusions Oct. 19. Some in the […]
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By Anne D’Innocenzio, AP Christmas won’t come early this year, but the gifts might. Just in time for the winter holiday shopping season, Amazon, Walmart, Macy’s and other retailers are working behind the scenes to make sure they can deliver online orders to shoppers faster. Retailers are building bigger warehouses — some the size of […]
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By Paige St. John, Los Angeles Times The ash of the Rocky Fire was still hot when Gov. Jerry Brown strode to a bank of television cameras beside a blackened ridge and, flanked by firefighters, delivered a battle cry against climate change. The wilderness fire was “a real wake-up call” to reduce the carbon pollution […]
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By Kathryn Reed The Park brothers are going after the former management company of Lake Tahoe Hard Rock for damages, contending Warner Hospitality is responsible for cost overruns at the remodeled Stateline property and mismanagement. “In particular, Warner has failed to manage the property properly, resulting in customer dissatisfaction, bad publicity, employee turnover, and revenue […]
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By Kathryn Reed An eight-year veteran with the South Lake Tahoe Police Department died Oct. 17 in a single-vehicle rollover accident near Fallon. Officer Mark Hounsell, 42, was driving to their home in Minden when the Chevrolet Suburban for unknown reasons left the road and rolled several times. The accident occurred about 5pm, approximately 20 […]
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By Jennifer Kaplan, BloombergBusiness Shaun Gindi brought a duffel bag stuffed with 1,000 twenty-dollar bills to open a checking account at his local Chase branch. He was successful. Until the branch closed the account a week later. As the owner of two marijuana shops and a weed warehouse in Colorado, where the drug is legal, […]
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By Kathryn Reed Building cages for animals takes more than just putting up four walls. In some ways, the amount of infrastructure needed is the same as a house. The sites for the 12 cages on the 27-acre home of what will be Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care are equipped with water, sewer and a ton […]
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