By Eli Segall, Las Vegas Sun Nevadans may not be on the edge of financial disaster anymore, but their personal finances remain among the worst in the country, with many residents unable to “build a secure economic future,” a new report says. The state is racked by some of the highest rates of lousy consumer […]
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El Dorado County Board of Supervisors are urging Congress to reauthorize and fund the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000. SRS expired Sept. 30, 2013, resulting in a loss of funding in 2014 and future years to support programs in schools and counties across the United States. California’s forested counties and the schools […]
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While gaming revenue declined throughout Nevada in 2014, local casinos ended the year on an up note. The statewide and December numbers were released Jan. 30 by the Gaming Control Board. Statewide the casinos took in just more than $11 billion in 2014, a 1.1 percent decline from 2013. The numbers had been increasing the […]
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By Kathryn Reed INCLINE VILLAGE – Unclogging the congestion at Tahoe City’s Y, dealing with a seismically unfit bridge and providing more access points to the West Shore are the reasons the Tahoe Transportation District and others want to realign Highway 89. Three public hearings this month, the last one on Jan. 28 before the […]
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By Alexei Koseff, Sacramento Bee In an effort to keep cigarettes out of the hands of teenagers, state Sen. Ed Hernandez, D-Azusa, announced legislation Thursday that would raise the legal smoking age in California from 18 to 21. “Tobacco companies know that people are more likely to become addicted to smoking if they start at […]
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By Lake Tahoe News and News 10 South Lake Tahoe fire Capt. Mark WyGant has been charged with receipt of child pornography. The investigation began when a computer flash drive was found in an unassigned locker at a city fire station, according to the federal criminal complaint. A search warrant had been obtained by local police to view the […]
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Updated 2:10pm: Service to the Tahoe area is coming back, including at Blue Angel. Charter Communications is having a global outage that is affecting phone service. For businesses like Blue Angel Café in South Lake Tahoe it also means not being able to process credit cards, so it is a cash-only dining experience today. The […]
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By Fenit Nirappil, AP SACRAMENTO — California health officials Wednesday declared electronic cigarettes a health threat that should be strictly regulated like tobacco products, joining other states and health advocates across the U.S. in seeking tighter controls as “vaping” grows in popularity. The California Department of Public Health released a report saying e-cigarettes emit cancer-causing […]
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By Mark Anderson, Sacramento Business Journal Placer County officials have backed away from a land-use battle with South Lake Tahoe, but they’re moving ahead with the larger effort aimed at allowing development of a hotel on the north side of the lake for the first time since 1959. The county had planned to pay private owners […]
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By Emily Badger, Washington Post Geof Glass, a doctorate student at Simon Frasier University, makes an interesting point in a blog post that’s been circulating for the last two days among people online fascinated by the economics of parking: The purchases you make at a store surrounded by free customer parking are effectively taxed to […]
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