South Lake Tahoe City Attorney Tom Watson was given a glowing review by the City Council in closed session on Tuesday. However, there are no changes to his three-year $154,000 contract that was entered into in May 2013. “He battles for the city just like he were battling for his own family,” Mayor Hal Cole […]
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By Robert Pear and Abby Goodnough, New York Times FORT WORTH — Paul D. Donahue and his wife, Angela, are among more than a million Americans who have signed up for health coverage through the federal insurance exchange. Donahue has a card in his wallet from his insurer to prove it. But when he tried […]
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By David Kravets, Wired A convicted sex offender’s loss at the Supreme Court on Monday was indirectly a boost to the privacy rights of travelers crossing the border to the United States. Without issuing a ruling, the justices let stand an appeals court’s decision that U.S. border agents may indeed undertake a search of a […]
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By David Siders and Matt Weiser, Sacramento Bee As California withered through a drought in 1977, Gov. Jerry Brown called for a 25 percent reduction in personal water use statewide and flew to Washington to press the Carter administration for federal aid. He reduced the spray of his shower head and, in a characteristic moment […]
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Publisher’s note: This is one of a series of blurbs about how the lack of winter is impacting businesses in the Lake Tahoe Basin. If you have an idea, please email it to info@LakeTahoeNews.net. The lack of snow had people spending a significant amount of time in the Heavenly Village during December. And it’s still […]
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By Ed Sealover, Denver Business Journal Increased skier visits to Vail Resorts’ Colorado and Utah resorts is lifting the company enough to overcome terrible snow conditions at its Lake Tahoe-area locations, CEO Rob Katz said Monday. Broomfield-based Vail Resorts Inc. reported that the number of people visiting its Canyons Resort ski area in Park City […]
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By Herb Scribner, Deseret News It looks like teenagers aren’t hitting the bottle as often as before. On Jan. 10, BBC News Magazine published an article that looked at the teenage non-drinkers, who are finding other ways to celebrate and have fun without sipping the sauce. “UK teenagers might have a reputation for binge drinking, […]
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A South Lake Tahoe woman was arrested Sunday night after she led multiple law enforcement agencies on a high-speed chase. Carson City sheriff’s deputies first tried to pull over Samantha Rose Randazzo. The 32-year-old kept going over Spooner Summit, into Douglas County, crossed the state line and was finally stopped near Highway 50 and Tallac […]
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By Andrea Peterson, Washington Post Aereo is a company that sells access to live television programming over the Internet — without paying broadcasters for the privilege. Unsurprisingly, broadcasters don’t like that. In fact, they dislike it so much that they’ve engaged in a lengthy legal battle to shut Aereo down. And Friday, the Supreme Court […]
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By Kathryn Reed Parking will not be on the Jan. 14 South Lake Tahoe City Council agenda. The special 7:30am Monday meeting to consider creating another special meeting just for parking was not without drama, though. Mayor Hal Cole requested the Jan. 13 meeting. Per state Government Code it would take a two-thirds majority to […]
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