California on Monday opened a website listing more than 13 million fields of financial data for cities and counties as part of his ongoing efforts to promote transparency in government. The site makes it easier for taxpayers to track revenues, expenditures, liabilities, assets, fund balances and even basic statistics about each city and county. The […]
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Smoke from wildland fires outside the Lake Tahoe Basin continue to impact the region. The Truckee area is being impacted by smoke drifting down from the Klamath National Forest complex of fires approximately 300 miles to the northwest. The South Shore is seeing smoke from the Meadow Fire in Yosemite that has been burned more than 2,600 […]
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A rig carrying cement missed a turn on Highway 89 and rolled over Tuesday morning. The driver sustained minor injuries. A colleague took him to Barton Memorial Hospital. California Highway Patrol Officer Wayne Tillman said alcohol was not an factor in the Sept. 9 accident that happened after 9am. “He didn’t make the turn,” Tillman […]
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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: Austin Sass Profession/work experience: Work experience: I am currently retired, but started […]
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By Peter Hecht, Sacramento Bee The questions linger after a tumultuous political and legal drama in El Dorado County. They dangle amid the clutter of campaign signs on hillsides along Highway 50 and beneath Ponderosa pines on back-country roads. What is the mood of this county after a veteran supervisor, Ray Nutting, was put on […]
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By Ann Saphir, Reuters The gap between the richest Americans and the rest of the nation widened after the Great Recession, a survey by the Federal Reserve showed on Thursday, suggesting deepening U.S. income inequality. Though incomes of the highest-earners rose, none of the groups analyzed by the Fed had regained their 2007 income levels […]
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By Josh Mitchell, Wall Street Journal College graduates may be taking on historically high debt burdens to finance their educations. But it will take them far less time to get a return on that “investment” than it took their parents’ generation. That’s the conclusion of new research from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. […]
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By Kathryn Reed Champions. Lake Tahoe has quite a few. And soon they will be memorialized in South Lake Tahoe. Champions Plaza was an idea that came about after the Winter Olympics earlier this year because so many athletes from the basin competed in Russia. Work on this plot of land by Lakeview Commons is […]
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By Anderea Castillo, Modesto Bee Hikers in Yosemite National Park were evacuated by helicopter after a wildfire spread Sunday afternoon. Tim Ludington of the National Park Service said the Meadow fire, which was started by lightning in mid-July adjacent to Mount Starr King, grew with strong winds and hot temperatures, creating a spot fire. The […]
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By J.D. Morris, Las Vegas Sun Next year, the number of people employed in Nevada’s leisure and hospitality sector could return to the highest level it had reached before the recession hit. Since falling to a low point of slightly fewer than 304,000 employees in November 2009, the state’s leisure and hospitality labor force has […]
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