By Kathryn Reed The beach by Timber Cove Marina is not as public as some would like it to be and is too public for the hotel-pier owners. This stretch of sand in South Lake Tahoe is going to be the subject of discussion by the City Council when it meets Nov. 18 at 9am […]
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Garbage rates on the South Shore are going up Jan. 1. The Waste Management Joint Powers Authority on Nov. 14 approved rates in South Lake Tahoe and Douglas County to increase by 2.88 percent and 2.66 percent in El Dorado County. This board is made up Nancy McDermid from Douglas County, JoAnn Conner of South Lake […]
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An item on Tuesday’s South Lake Tahoe City Council agenda shows that the now defunct paid parking program made money. Vavrinek, Trine, Day & Company, a certified public accounting firm, conducted an independent review of the parking program and found that had the program existed for five years, it would have had net revenue of […]
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By Associated Press SACRAMENTO — As the U.S. and China — the world’s top two polluting nations — turn to implementing new rules aimed at curbing climate change, the countries can look to the most populous U.S. state as an example of the costs and challenges of fighting global warming. California already has imposed some […]
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By Howard Stutz, Las Vegas Review-Journal Casino giant Caesars Entertainment Corp., attempted to clarify planned cost-saving measures Thursday, saying it will reduce its 68,000-person workforce nationwide by less than 1 percent. The company, which operates nearly 40 casinos in 14 U.S. states and the Canadian province of Ontario — including Harrah’s Lake Tahoe and Harveys, […]
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By Associated Press The governors of California and Nevada met Thursday at a forum aimed at coming up with the best ways to cope with the unprecedented drought affecting the Western U.S., now in its third year. “I think the drought will test our imagination and our science, our technology and our political capacity to […]
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An estimated 78.1 percent of people in U.S. households had a high-speed Internet connection last year, according to a report released Thursday from the U.S. Census Bureau. However, digital divides exist among the nation’s metropolitan areas and demographic groups. These statistics come from the American Community Survey, which collected data on this topic for the first […]
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By Kathryn Reed The last time anyone saw the South Lake Tahoe Fire Department’s ladder truck it was on a flatbed headed east on Highway 50. This specialized piece of equipment that cost the city more than $1 million has never seen one day of service since it arrived in town at the beginning of […]
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Gas prices keep going down — and it’s not just in Lake Tahoe. AAA says the average price nationwide of $2.93 is the lowest since 2010 and that this is the longest consecutive decline in six years. Prices have been dropping for the last 46 days. Prices in California have dropped by 40 cents. However, […]
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By Richard Chang, Sacramento Bee Voters in fiscally conservative Placer County last week overwhelmingly approved an initiative that will more than double county supervisor salaries, a reversal of two previous elections in which they handily rejected modest raises. While supporters praised the result as a fair compensation boost, opponents said voters mistakenly believed they were […]
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