By Claudia Buck, Sacramento Bee When it comes to income, the Bay Area rocks. In the Central Valley and Inland Empire, not so much. Overall, in another sign that California’s economy is shaking off the recession, state tax officials reported Tuesday that the statewide median income – for 2012 – was $70,938, up 4.1 percent […]
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By AP A South Lake Tahoe man accused of bilking 11 investors out of $3.6 million in a fraudulent scheme to buy a Douglas County golf course has pleaded guilty to 24 federal charges, including wire fraud and money laundering. U.S. Attorney Dan Bogden says 55-year-old Scott Summerhays pleaded guilty Wednesday in federal court in […]
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By Christie Turner, High Country News Wildfire in the West is getting more severe all the time – burning longer, hotter and more frequently, destroying more homes, stretching federal funds to the limit, endangering more firefighters. Rising temperatures are driving the trend, and there’s no indication things will change course. Faced with these dire circumstances, […]
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By Kathryn Reed It’s possible that by late spring a taxi could be picking people up instead of an on-demand BlueGo bus. The Tahoe Transportation District board of directors will discuss altering the service at its Friday meeting. “We are looking essentially at an additional provider for demand response services,” Curtis Garner, TTD transit manager, […]
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By Kathryn Reed One day it may be possible for students at South Tahoe High School to graduate with a diploma and the first two years of Lake Tahoe Community College work completed. Tom Greene, vice president of academic affairs and student services at LTCC, said there is a national movement to create such a […]
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By Jonathan Kami, Reuters Nevada dropped its defense of a state ban on gay marriage on Monday, saying the U.S. legal landscape had changed and its arguments in support of a voter-approved ban on same-sex nuptials were no longer sustainable. The move, made by the state’s Democratic attorney general with the support of its Republican […]
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By Paul Takahashi, Las Vegas Sun Nevada fails to provide adequate school funding to poor children, according to a national report. Every two years, the Education Law Center publishes a report card that grades states on how fairly they distribute per-pupil funding to schools. Education researchers at Rutgers University in New Jersey looked at several […]
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By Kathryn Reed A flock of birds in South Lake Tahoe was thinned out after ingesting strychnine. Stella McMillin, senior environmental scientist with the state Department of Fish and Wildlife Service, said it is not known if the poisoning was intentional. El Dorado County Animal Services was called Jan. 28 regarding a large number of […]
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Employees of Lake Tahoe Unified School District will soon have a heftier paycheck. The board of education on Feb. 11 approved 3 percent raises for certificated and classified workers that are retroactive to July 1. Another increase takes effect July 1, 2014. That comes in the form of a 6.5 percent raise. The contract, though, […]
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South Tahoe Refuse workers are used to sorting all sorts of things that come across the conveyor belt. On Monday it was a gun. “The protocol is it gets turned into our manager immediately and then we call the police department and they come pick it up,” John Marchini, who owns STR, told Lake Tahoe […]
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