By Sean Whaley, Las Vegas Review-Journal CARSON CITY – A panel of lawmakers and educators on Monday recommended Nevada’s public education funding formula include more money for students in poverty or with limited English proficiency. The minimum funding increase supported by the Task Force on K-12 Public Education Funding is 50 percent but could be […]
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Investigators believe four fires on the South Shore in the last two weeks are the works of the same person. The latest was Sunday in Rabe Meaddow. All have occurred in the Stateline area on dry U.S. Forest Service land. Douglas County sheriff’s investigators along with Tahoe Douglas fire and U.S. Forest Service officials are […]
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By Eli Segall, Las Vegas Sun When Michael Yackira took charge of NV Energy in 2007, the company was earning big profits just a few years after it almost went bankrupt. Nevada’s main electric utility stayed in the black on his watch, despite his steering more cash to shareholders, cashing in on $21 million when […]
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A second patrol boat at Lake Tahoe sank this season. This time is was Douglas County Sheriff’s Department that lost a vessel earlier this month. In May, it was a Washoe County sheriff’s boat that sank. “Our boat sank due to structural deficiencies in the hull. It has undergone multiple repairs and is simply too […]
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By Kathryn Reed St. Theresa School has shuttered its doors. The Catholic K-8 school in South Lake Tahoe that opened in 1960 will not be offering classes in the 2014-15 school year. Also being displaced are preschoolers. While the rumor of the school’s closure has been ongoing for years, it is finally a reality. Principal […]
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By Steve Scauzillo, San Gabriel Valley Tribune Not too long ago in this season of California’s massive and extended drought, climate experts saw a small glimmer of hope on the horizon: Predictions for a wet El Niño season coming in the winter that would bring badly needed rain and relief to a parched state. Now […]
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By Kathryn Reed TAHOE PARADISE – “Tahoe Paradise Park is currently operated by the Tahoe Paradise Resort Improvement District, and at some point in the future, El Dorado County is scheduled to take over operations. This change in management should increase options for re-development and management.” Those sentences come directly from the draft of the […]
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About one-half acre of U.S. Forest Service land burned Sunday on the South Shore. The fire started about 10am June 29 at Rabe Meadow in Stateline. The cause is under investigation. Forest Service and Tahoe Douglas fire crews put out the fire. — Lake Tahoe News staff report
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By Ana Ley, Las Vegas Sun Among the more surprising ways Nevada’s two-year statute of limitations protects defendants from excessive litigation is by actually dissuading potential plaintiffs by giving them ample time to think about filing suit. “Strangely, and somewhat perversely,” shorter time limits — like that of Kentucky, Louisiana and Tennessee, which span one […]
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By Paul Elias, AP SAN FRANCISCO — If Gov. Jerry Brown wins re-election in November, he will be given an unprecedented opportunity to overhaul the California Supreme Court. Voters in 1987 rejected Brown’s first makeover when they removed Chief Justice Rose Bird and two other of his appointees from the high court because of their […]
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