By Eli Segall, Las Vegas Sun Being underwater on your mortgage doesn’t necessarily mean you’ll lose your house to lenders. But more often than not, it does in Nevada, a new report shows. An estimated 55 percent of properties statewide in some stage of the foreclosure process also were heavily underwater in the first quarter, […]
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The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency on April 23 approved the permit for the new home of the Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care facility. Preliminary work like cleaning up the lot started earlier this month on the new home for Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care. Turner and Associates employees surveyed the property and placed stakes showing the outlines of […]
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By News 10 Officials are looking for a parolee at large who is described as a violent sex offender. The El Dorado County District Attorney’s Office said Jaime Lynn Olson, 36, violated her parole and failed to register as a sex offender. Investigator Dave Stevenson said Olson frequents South Lake Tahoe, where the crime originally […]
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By Lee Traupel, Huffington Post Every traveler begins her journey with a complex web of connections, coupled with dreams of blue skies, unlimited horizons, fair weather and unlimited upgrades. But, as in everything in life, risk and reward live together and in this complex fine print driven world we all live and travel in the […]
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By Bill O’Driscoll, Reno Gazette-Journal The San Francisco Bay Area has spoken on Reno-Tahoe tourism, and while the region’s favorability holds steady from last summer, more attention is needed on marketing to millennials. Among the findings from the Reno-Sparks Convention & Visitors Authority’s twice-a-year Bay Area Awareness Survey in February to be presented to the […]
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By Kyle Roerink, Las Vegas Sun CARSON CITY — For Democratic Sen. Tick Segerblom, Tuesday yielded a victory five sessions in the making. Senate lawmakers passed into the Assembly a tax measure, SB 252, that’s backed by GOP Gov. Brian Sandoval that would annually raise $430 million to fund education and other programs. The rub […]
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South Lake Tahoe is about to charge a more realistic fee for vacation home rental permits. That is the major change to the ordinance that was amended on Tuesday. As with all ordinances, they must be read and voted on a second time before becoming the law of the land. And while usually items on […]
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By Jeremy B. White, Sacramento Bee Nick Johansen arrived at a Capitol hearing on vaccinations last week carrying a Bible. Johansen, who said he hasn’t yet decided whether to vaccinate his 10-month-old daughter Savannah, argued government shouldn’t impose a reverence for science over his faith in God. Senate Bill 277, a bitterly contested California bill […]
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By Nick Anderson, Washington Post In its first few years, the Obama administration played a major role in higher education as the nation’s economy was foundering. The expansion of Pell grants for students in financial need, the provision of billions of dollars in stimulus funding for university research and other purposes, an overhaul of federal […]
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By Hugo Martin, Los Angeles Times Gambling, once the mainstay of Las Vegas, is slowly taking a back seat to other entertainment in Sin City. The latest survey of Las Vegas visitors found that fewer people go to the city to gamble and that first-time visitors are more likely to travel there for a wedding […]
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