By Howard Stutz Las Vegas Review-Journal CG Technology CEO Lee Amaitis wanted to know the whereabouts of about $9 million that Nevada sports book operators paid to the federal government last year through a tax on all sports wagers. It seemed like a simple question. Amaitis asked Rep Dina Titus, D-Nev., if she could find […]
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By Kathryn Reed It was controlled chaos inside and outside of the airport in South Lake Tahoe on Monday as first responders and staff were put to the test in a mass casualty incident. A C130J airplane carrying 47 people crashed while landing – at least that was the scenario for the Aug. 25 drill. […]
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Aug. 27 marks 34 years since the Harveys bombing. I was the chief engineer of KRLT, whose transmitter is atop Harveys. Of course, the building was evacuated and the station was off the air when the bomb was found. I was allowed to trek all the stairs to the roof the day after the bomb […]
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A fast moving storm dumped so much hail on the South Shore it looks like winter. A flash food warning remains in effect until 9pm Aug. 25 from Stateline to Fallen Leaf Lake. The National Weather Service in Reno is warning people who live near or are playing by Heavenly Valley Creek, Trout Creek, Taylor […]
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By Paige St. John, Los Angeles Times Jesus Ysasaga had been arrested multiple times and ordered by the court to keep away from his ex-girlfriend. Two parole boards sentenced him to nearly a year in jail for stalking, drunkenness and battery. But the Fresno County jail would not keep him. Four times in the summer […]
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Washoe County sheriff’s investigators have identified the man who was found floating in the water at Sand Harbor as Carl Strickland, 40, of Incline Village. Students in a paddleboarding class discovered the body Aug. 22 about 10:50am near the boat docks. Detectives said the instructor the body was tangled in some ropes affixed to a […]
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A truck carrying trusses for the roof of a house clipped the power lines across from Safeway on Johnson Boulevard between Highway 50 and Fairway Avenue on Monday morning. The accident knocked out power for most of the Liberty Utilities customers in the area for more than hour. This included putting students in the dark […]
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By Terri Hendry, KRNV-TV Your right to know is at the center of a lawsuit filed against a small sewer district at Lake Tahoe. The conservative group Nevada Policy Research Institute has filed suit in the Ninth Judicial Court in Minden, asking the court to order the Tahoe-Douglas Sewer District to disclose its employee compensation […]
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By Kathryn Reed Years after MTBE was used in South Lake Tahoe it continues to turn up in well water. The latest incident involves Tahoe Tom’s gas station near the state line. The former owners – Mohammad Ahmad and the Thomas E. Erickson Trust – have never fully cleaned up the contaminated groundwater even though […]
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By Ken Sweet and Ellen Knickmeyer, AP NAPA — Winemakers in Californias storied Napa Valley woke up to thousands of broken bottles and barrels as a result of Sunday’s earthquake. The earthquake couldn’t have come at a worse time for the region, which has just started harvesting the 2014 crop. “It’s devastating. I’ve never seen […]
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