By Nikki Bowers, KLAS-TV LAS VEGAS — Caesars Entertainment Corporation announced Wednesday that its CEO was stepping down. “After 12 years as CEO, Caesars has accomplished more than what we could have imagined when I arrived in 1998. Now, with the company in the midst of a formal restructuring of one of its subsidiaries and […]
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By Jeff DeLong, Reno Gazette-Journal A Lake Tahoe couple who claims they were harassed and subjected to death threats after reporting a problem-causing bear that was later killed by authorities have sued a nonprofit bear advocacy group they contend was responsible for the harassment. Richard and Adrienne Evans of Incline Village sued the Bear League […]
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By Kathryn Reed Disgraced South Lake Tahoe fire Capt. Mark WyGant has resigned, making him no longer on the city’s payroll after Feb. 4. WyGant received one day of paid administrative leave. WyGant is accused of possessing more than 5,000 child pornography images and 50 videos of child porn. He remains in federal custody after […]
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By Andrea Domanick, Las Vegas Sun Nevada’s workforce may be well on its way to recovering from the economic crash, but the state still has a long way to go when it comes to developing jobs critical for long-term growth, the Brookings Institute found. Nevada ranks almost last nationally for high-value jobs. A new report, […]
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By Darrell Smith, Sacramento Bee Water vapor – Mississippi River-size amounts of it flowing at hurricane speeds miles above the Earth – is hurtling across the Pacific, an atmospheric river poised to drench a parched Northern California and the Sacramento region as early as Thursday night. A crack team of science experts is going along […]
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By Kristen Wyatt, AP DENVER — Colorado’s marijuana experiment was designed to raise revenue for the state and its schools, but a state law may put some of the tax money directly into residents’ pockets, causing quite a headache for lawmakers. The state constitution limits how much tax money the state can take in before […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe is tired of subsidizing ambulance service on the South Shore and is about to demand El Dorado County pay what it actually costs to run the program. The bulk of the Feb. 3 City Council meeting centered on the 14-year-old Cal-Tahoe JPA which oversees the ambulance service that is […]
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Two Meeks Bay residents are about to spend several years in prison on burglary and other charges. After more than three days of deliberations following a three-week trial in Placerville, an El Dorado County Superior Court jury on Jan. 29 found Craig Ivan Adams, 34, guilty of 17 felony charges, including nine counts of burglary, four […]
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By Michael Doyle, McClatchy Washington Bureau California would get its share, and then some, from the Obama administration’s $4 trillion budget proposal delivered Monday to a skeptical, Republican-controlled Congress. There’s money for restoring the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, which is likely to survive congressional winnowing. Proposed upgrades at places including Yosemite National Park probably will find […]
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Pamela Knorr has job security at least for one year. The El Dorado County Board of Supervisors today unanimously appointed her chief administrative officer for the next year. This is a job she has had since November when then-CAO Terri Daly abruptly left after having lost the confidence of three supervisors. (The two supervisors who […]
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