AAA Travel projects 36.1 million Americans will journey 50 miles or more from home during the Memorial Day holiday weekend, a 1.5 percent increase from the 35.5 million people who traveled last year. More than eight in 10 travelers will be driving to their destinations. The Memorial Day holiday travel period is defined as May […]
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By Kathryn Reed In a rare moment, the South Lake Tahoe City Council said “no” to a request by attorney Lew Feldman when it came to the Chateau project. While the discussion May 20 was civil, in the end Feldman did not get everything he requested in the “major design review permit revision.” He wanted […]
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By Peter Hecht, Sacramento Bee Amid a spectacle raw with anger and emotion, four El Dorado County supervisors voted Tuesday to ask a judge to decide whether their colleague, Ray Nutting, should be removed from office. It was another searing chapter in the political saga of the embattled supervisor as fellow board members went into […]
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By Kathryn Reed Sex offenders in South Lake Tahoe will get to roam a little freer starting next month – including near parks, schools, arcades and other places children congregate. This is all because the California Supreme Court refused to review a case from the Fourth Appellate District Court that ultimately made 40 local sex […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe is getting out of the GIFTing business. GIFT – Great Ideas For Tahoe – was started in 2001 by the city’s parks and recreation employees as a means to take donations and then spend them how the donor chose. In 2002, the council, acting as GIFT’s board of directors, […]
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By AP A mother and her adult daughter have been convicted of tampering with a bear trap at Incline Village in an effort to thwart wildlife officials’ efforts to capture the animals. It’s the first such case prosecuted in Nevada, the Reno Gazette-Journal reported today. Cheryl Ann Morrison, 63, of Truckee and Season Morrison, 35, […]
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By Patrick McGreevy, Los Angeles Times With California’s gas tax unable to keep up with road maintenance needs, one state lawmaker has proposed a study to determine the feasibility of instead taxing motorists based on the number of miles they drive. A combination of inflation, cars getting better mileage and more hybrids and electric vehicles […]
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By AP ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — A New Jersey man is considering suing for the right to use medical marijuana in an Atlantic City casino. Daniel Price’s lawyer, Michelle Douglass, says that Revel Casino Hotel failed to accommodate his disability when a security guard told him he could not take his marijuana into the casino […]
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By AP WASHINGTON — The availability of state-funded pre-kindergarten programs varies widely from one part of the country to another, says a report. For example, more than 9 in 10 4-year-olds in the District of Columbia attended such a program during the 2012-13 school year, while 10 states have no such program. A number of […]
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By Kathryn Reed Charter Cable customers in Lake Tahoe have one less California network affiliate. That means KCRA is the lone California station accessible to viewers around the clock. Last week the company stopped providing KTVU, the Fox affiliate out of Oakland, during the day and instead offers Reno’s KRXI. KTVU and KRXI representatives told […]
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