A fire Saturday night destroyed a mobile home on Melba Drive in South Lake Tahoe. “It will be red tagged by the building department. He won’t be able to live in that,” fire Capt. Jon Anderson told Lake Tahoe News. “If it is not taken down, he would have to gut the thing completely.” Anderson […]
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Publisher’s note: Lake Tahoe News asked the seven South Lake Tahoe City Council candidates a series of questions. All are the same except for one that is specific to each candidate. The responses are being run in the order LTN received them. Name: Angela Swanson Profession/work experience: Grant writer and school facilities planning consultant. Age: […]
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By Jonathan Berr, MoneyWatch Consumers hold CVS Health in higher esteem than ever in the wake of the second-largest drugstore chain’s decision to quit selling tobacco products. CVS says that decision will cost it $2 billion in annual revenue. CVS has three outlets on the South Shore of Lake Tahoe. According to the weekly YouGov […]
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By Jon Ortiz, Sacramento Bee California’s largest public retirement system lacks a routine method for detecting pension spiking, according to a new released by state Controller John Chiang, and the pace at which it does check employers’ payroll is glacially slow. The report also blasted a pay tactic that auditors estimate will allow some public […]
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By Cy Ryan, Las Vegas Sun Gov. Brian Sandoval on Thursday set up the machinery for Western states to join in finding the best ways to deal with the extended drought. Sandoval said the Western Drought Forum has been created involving eight states. There will be an online library to collect case studies and best […]
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By Kevin Oliver, KCRA-TV Local law enforcement agencies across California are recipients of surplus military gear, but some have been suspended from the program because of missing military equipment. Grenade launchers, bayonets and armored vehicles were given to a number of California police departments. The Davis Police Department received a mine-resistant vehicle, but decided not […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Tahoe Refuse customers on the South Shore are likely to see their rates to go up by more than 3 percent starting Jan. 1. The garbage company is asking for a 3.7 percent hike in South Lake Tahoe and Douglas County, and 3.5 percent in El Dorado County. Terry Trease, STR’s […]
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Home buyers are focusing on lakefront properties in the Lake Tahoe Basin. “Lakefronts have outperformed other sectors of the Tahoe basin market this year as compared with 2013,” Linda Granger with Granger Group, Alain Pinel Realtors said in a statement. In July, five homes on the California side sold for more than $2 million — […]
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By Jeff Wheelwright, National Geographic SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK — This great park in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California attracts a million visitors a year, who come mostly in summer to see the largest trees on Earth. After Labor Day the heat and the tourists dissipate. So does a less welcome visitor: air pollution. By a […]
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By Ana Ley, Las Vegas Sun Nevada ranks sixth in the nation in the rate of women killed by men, according to a study published by a gun control advocacy group. A nationwide analysis of 2012 homicide data by the Violence Policy Center in Washington, D.C., shows that nearly two female victims are killed at […]
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