By Anne Knowles RENO — The fourth consecutive year of drought in and around Lake Tahoe is shaping up to be the worst by far. Snowpack in the Lake Tahoe Basin is down to 3 percent of normal, said Nevada State Climatologist Doug Boyle, during a presentation on the drought at the UNR on Tuesday. […]
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The Super Bowl often makes that month’s gaming numbers in Nevada in the positive. Not so this February. Losses on the Strip helped bring down the entire state, according to the Nevada Gaming Control Board. Casinos won $916.1 million in February, a drop of 1.08 percent compared to 2014. Stateline properties, though, fared better. They […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe has an overabundance of lodging units. With 26 percent of the more than 5,000 rooms within the 120 hotels-motels being used for long-term rentals, the city is on a quest to change the rental market landscape. In doing so, it could help the hotel market so the less desirable […]
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By Kathryn Reed El Dorado County does not require a no compete clause for most employees. This proved to be a profitable turn of events for Alliant Insurance Services and York Risk Services. When Kim Kerr started with El Dorado County as assistant county administrative officer on June 30, 2011, the contract with Alliant was […]
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By Peter Hecht, Sacrament Bee The former operator and members of a Diamond Springs marijuana dispensary are suing El Dorado County to recover seized marijuana, medical records and financial documents taken in a Sheriff’s Department raid last year. The Pure Life Collective has been shuttered since the Nov. 17, 2014, raid, which resulted in the […]
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By Carol Hymowitz, BloombergBusiness Cathy Egan has been supporting herself since she was 18, when she worked as a waitress in Minneapolis. Her 23-year-old son lives at home and relies on his single mother for transportation, food, and other expenses. Egan, now 50, only began putting money aside for retirement five years ago, after she […]
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By Jessie Marchesseau KIRKWOOD – By the time Kirkwood closes its lifts for the season, the new townhome building under construction near the Timber Creek Village should be completed. This building, the first in the development, houses two townhomes in what is slated to become a 21-unit complex. Situated right at the base of Timber […]
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By Michael R. Blood and Juliet Williams, AP Gov. Jerry Brown, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom and other top elected officials in California acknowledge using personal email accounts to conduct government business, and it’s not clear if their private exchanges are retained as public records or subject to disclosure. An Associated Press survey of email use […]
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By J.D. Morris, Las Vegas Sun To get a sense of just how complicated the bankruptcy of Caesars Entertainment’s main operating division is, picture a Chicago courtroom filled with 200 lawyers, all working on the case. That’s a real situation Caesars faced recently, general counsel Tim Donovan told gaming regulators on Thursday. Donovan said Caesars […]
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Publisher’s note: This is one in a series of stories Lake Tahoe News will be running leading up to the 50th anniversary of South Lake Tahoe on Nov. 30. By Laurel Ames Despite the grumbling by South Tahoe residents about the county seat located in Placerville, 60 miles away, and the difficulty of getting to […]
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