By Kathryn Reed Paid parking in South Lake Tahoe is working – based on when it comes to revenues being greater than expenses. Paid parking in South Lake Tahoe is not working – based on the nine people who spoke Nov. 5. Paid parking in South Lake Tahoe is evolving and will continue to – […]
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By Kathryn Reed Three businesses that have never operated in South Lake Tahoe are expected to open their doors in 2014. Auto Zone is going in next to Izzy’s Burgers on Highway 50. The martial arts building will be torn down. That used to be the garage where Buzz Springmeyer worked. His widow, Marjorie Springmeyer, […]
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By Jessica Calefati and Josh Richman, San Jose Mercury News SACRAMENTO — A year ago this week, Californians were still locked in a fierce battle over Proposition 30, Gov. Jerry Brown’s ballot initiative that raised income taxes on the wealthy and the sales tax on everyone. One side argued that the state needed a temporary […]
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After six years and nearly $4 million, Tahoe City Public Utility District has completed the acquisition and full replacement of the Lake Forest Water System. Most of the money to upgrade the 80-year-old system came from grants. The state and Placer County were integral partners. The water system suffered from poor water quality, lack of […]
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By Scott Sonner, AP More than 200 biologists, ecologists and other scientists are urging Congress to defeat legislation they say would destroy critical wildlife habitat by setting aside U.S. environmental laws to speed logging of burned trees at Yosemite National Park and other national forests and wilderness areas across the West. The experts say two […]
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By Peter Hecht, Sacramento Bee ROHNERT PARK — Anita Silva, 82, never felt deprived by her humble upbringing in a drafty shack with no indoor plumbing on a reservation in Sonoma County. Despite economic hardships, she said simply, “I didn’t remember that there were any.” Silva, a tribal elder for the Federated Indians of the […]
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Three of the four people injured in a two-car crash Friday on Kingsbury Grade have been released from the hospital. The driver of the vehicle that crossed the center line was admitted to Renown Medical Center in Reno with non-life threatening injuries. Nevada Highway Patrol troopers told Lake Tahoe News that on Nov. 1 at […]
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By Tiffany Hsu, Los Angeles Times Count on coal this Christmas. That’s what researchers at Morgan Stanley are saying in the first major forecast of a decidedly dour holiday season. Retailers hoping for a respite from a year of so-so shopping can instead expect the worst Thanksgiving-to-Christmas sales since 2008, the financial services firm said […]
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By Sharon Noguchi, San Jose Mercury News Reinforcing its threat to punish California for dumping its old standardized state tests next spring, the U.S. Department of Education said that decision could cost the state at least $3.5 billion. The state could lose $15 million it receives to administer a federal program for poor children, known […]
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By Kevin Oliver, KCRA-TV Three dozen people are wondering where they will go if the Placerville City Council doesn’t approve a permit allowing their tent city to continue. Rebecca Nylander moved into a tent after her mother died and she found herself on the streets. She has become part of the leadership council governing who […]
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