Placer County Board of Supervisors this month approved a slew of funding proposals that impact Lake Tahoe. Money comes the hotel tax the county collects on the North Shore. Here are the projects: North Tahoe Public Art: The funding will be for initial construction costs as part of the Kings Beach Commercial Core Improvement Project. […]
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By Tracy Seipel, San Jose Mercury News Lynn Engelman still has no idea whether her doctors in Contra Costa County will be on her new health care plan — and neither, she says, do her doctors. Capitola resident Kathryn Johnson has already paid the first month’s bill for her new policy through the state’s new […]
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By Eli Segall, Las Vegas Sun Billionaire Warren Buffett has completed his purchase of NV Energy, whose chief executive is retiring and being replaced by a Buffett underling. MidAmerican Energy Holdings Co., owned by Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway conglomerate, closed its acquisition of Nevada’s main electric utility Dec. 19, at least a few weeks ahead of […]
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By Hudson Sangree and Mary Lynne Vellinga, Sacramento Bee California borrowers, including those in El Dorado and Placer counties, could receive as much as $268 million from Ocwen Financial Corp., the nation’s fourth largest mortgage servicer, which specializes in subprime and delinquent loans. A $2.1 billion settlement was announced Thursday between the mortgage servicing giant, […]
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By Michele Lerner, Realtor.com The U.S. real estate market made a robust comeback in 2013, surpassing expectations of many economists, as the combination of low inventories and historically low interest rates caused home prices to rise and even helped fuel bidding wars in some markets, surpassing the expectations of many economists. While positive trends, such […]
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By Bettina Boxall, Los Angeles Times Canadian researchers think they have found a great way to trace the travels of treated sewage after it is discharged into rivers: Follow the artificial sweeteners. The scientists found elevated concentrations of four sweeteners — cyclamate, saccharin, sucralose, and acesulfame – in water samples collected along the length of […]
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By Curtis Tate, Sacramento Bee After a lengthy and destructive wildfire season in California, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., inserted language into a defense bill that will double the size of the U.S. Forest Service fleet of large air tankers. Feinstein said that the amendment, which she cosponsored with Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., would transfer seven […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – While the president of Liberty Utilities said he didn’t want to be an alarmist, he did say if power lines are not upgraded, brown outs or black outs in the Lake Tahoe-Truckee areas are possible. “Even without any new growth I’m at the limit with 650,” Mike Smart, president of […]
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By Adam Satariano, Bloomberg Diana Dawson has over the years bought her twin children digital cameras, e-book readers and media players as Christmas presents. This holiday season, she’s covering those bases with one device: a tablet computer. “They do it all,” Dawson said outside an Apple Inc. store in Walnut Creek after buying iPads for […]
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By KOLO-TV INCLINE VILLAGE — The Washoe County sheriff’s deputies are investigating a series of residential and vehicle burglaries that have occurred during the last month in the Incline Village area. According to investigators, there have been at least a dozen vehicle burglaries and eight residential burglaries in various areas of Incline Village since the […]
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