By Riley Snyder, Associated Press CARSON CITY — Nevada health department officials are expecting a financial penalty from the federal government over simmering issues with the state’s food stamp program. Welfare program administrator Steve Fisher told a legislative budget committee Wednesday he expects the penalty due to delays in processing food stamp applications and a […]
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By Kathryn Reed January is destined to be a record for the weather books. And it might be for some companies in the Lake Tahoe Basin, too. No snow means no money for many businesses, which in turn means no paycheck or a smaller one because of reduced hours for employees. And with locals not […]
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By Bill O’Driscoll, Reno Gazette-Journal Talk about liftoff. JetBlue Airways’ coming nonstop flights linking Reno and New York City promise to elevate not only the future of Reno-Tahoe International Airport but also the broader economy in northern Nevada. From filling hotel rooms to luring new business to the sheer prestige of “New York” and “nonstop” […]
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By Tony Barboza, Los Angeles Times California’s drought crept in slowly, but it could end with a torrent of winter storms that stream across the Pacific, dumping much of the year’s rain and snow in a few fast-moving and potentially catastrophic downpours. Powerful storms known as atmospheric rivers, ribbons of water vapor that extend for […]
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By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times In a remote Nevada park, a team finds an abandoned Winchester rifle from 1882. Who left it there? There it was, abandoned for the ages, propped up against a juniper tree in far-eastern Nevada’s Snake Mountains, a Winchester Model 1873 repeating rifle: the gun, as legend goes, that […]
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A motorcyclist died Jan. 19 after colliding with another motorcyclist on the Geiger Grade. Nevada Highway Patrol officers said a Harley Davidson motorcycle ridden by 34-year-old Reno resident Trenton Michael Perry for reasons unknown crossed the center line and into the northbound lane. He collided with a 2014 black Harley Davidson motorcycle traveling north being ridden by […]
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A $25,000 award is being offered for information that results in the arrest of the person who shot at an El Dorado County sheriff’s Deputy on Oct. 17, 2014. At 8am that day a deputy working patrol found a truck in a turnout in the area of Cable Road and White Mountain Ranch Road. While walking down a […]
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For the first time since 1998, South Lake Tahoe City Council members are receiving a raise. The five current members voted themselves a raise Jan. 20. The pay goes from $452 a month to $946. If they work 20 hours a week, this comes to less than $12 an hour. The state dictates how much […]
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By Kathryn Reed One of South Lake Tahoe’s prime pieces of real estate may be more than a plot of dirt 18 months from now. Halferty Development Corporation out of Pasadena has until June 1, 2016, to obtain a building permit for the nearly 1.5 acres at the corner of Highway 50 and Ski Run […]
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By Kathryn Reed Lake Tahoe Community College is not one of the 15 two-year institutions that will be part of a pilot program to offer a four-year degree. LTCC was one of 36 schools vying for this opportunity. “The board, faculty, staff, students and administration are disappointed, although remain supportive of the California Community College […]
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