By Jim Miller, Sacramento Bee School-construction and home-building groups Monday launched an effort to qualify a $9 billion school bond for the November 2016 ballot, only days after Gov. Jerry Brown released a budget plan that minimized the state’s role in paying for building new classrooms and modernizing existing ones. The last state school bond […]
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By Mark Anderson, Sacramento Business Journal There may be a duel this winter over hotel rooms around Lake Tahoe. Placer County is interested in paying about $3.7 million to buy hotels from private owners and demolish them in South Lake Tahoe, which is in El Dorado County. South Lake Tahoe doesn’t wantto lose the hotels, along […]
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By Kathryn Reed A rash of parvo cases in South Lake Tahoe has forced the city to shutdown the dog park for the next 10 days. The Lake Tahoe Humane Society has reported 11 cases of the potentially fatal virus in the last 10 days. “The fatality rate is huge if it goes untreated – almost […]
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By Kathryn Reed Faculty and some administrators at Lake Tahoe Community College are expected to see fatter paychecks. The college board tonight is being asked to approve raises for full-time and adjunct faculty, as well as give one-time bonuses to three interim deans. “Many employees on this campus work harder than they ever have because […]
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By Dionne Searcey, New York Times The nation’s economy is entering 2015 in its best shape since the recession, but the improving job market has so far failed to help most Americans earn significantly more at work. On Friday, the Labor Department reported that employers added another 252,000 workers to their payrolls in December, capping […]
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By Howard Mintz, San Jose Mercury News Gov. Jerry Brown’s latest spending plan appears to further treat the California judiciary’s wounded budgets, adding about $180 million to court systems trying to recover from years of financial cuts. The governor’s 2015-16 budget bumps the state court system’s budget from last year’s $3.29 billion to $3.47 billion, […]
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By Kristen DeSilva, Las Vegas Review-Journal Sure, Las Vegas is the marriage capital of the world, but Nevada is also number one when it comes to divorce. In fact, 13.9 percent of Nevadans over 15 have been divorced, or about 30,000 people. The average in the United States is 10.8 percent. With Nevada at No. 1, […]
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By Richard N. Velotta, Las Vegas Review-Journal The state’s largest casinos lost $743.7 million in the 2014 fiscal year, nearly cutting their losses in half from the previous year. The state Gaming Control Board’s 2014 Nevada Gaming Abstract, published Friday, said the 270 Nevada casinos that generated $1 million or more in gaming revenue reported […]
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By Kathryn Reed INCLINE VILLAGE – If the fire alert system that is in its infancy in the Lake Tahoe Basin had been in place in 2007, the Angora Fire might not have wiped out 254 homes on the South Shore. That is the prediction of Graham Kent, a South Tahoe High School graduate who […]
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A routine traffic stop in Truckee led to the arrest of a man wanted on murder charges in Fresno and Florida. California Highway Patrol officers stopped a vehicle going west on Interstate 80 about 10:30pm Jan. 10. Officers were suspicious and asked for Truckee officers to bring in K-9 Trax. Officers said a search of […]
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