By Kathryn Reed Sometime in October the T.J. Maxx building in South Lake Tahoe will be a water customer of South Tahoe Public Utility District’s instead of Lukins Brothers Water Company. The STPUD board will get an update this afternoon at 2 about the property owner’s application for water service and the main line extension. […]
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By Richard N. Velotta, Las Vegas Sun The publisher of a newsletter about Las Vegas is encouraging readers not to put money down on hotel reservations or make deposits in casinos operated by Caesars Entertainment, citing the prospect of a bankruptcy filing. Caesars owns Harrah’s and Harveys at Stateline. “In an abundance of caution, this […]
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By Kate Galbraith, New York Times SAN FRANCISCO — The huge wildfire scorching one of America’s most beloved national parks, Yosemite, has rained ash on San Francisco’s water supply and jolted the nation. Experts say this is just a foretaste of major fires to come, in the United States and much of the world. Increasing […]
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By Janet Lorin, Bloomberg The number of U.S. university students declined by almost half a million last year, following years of growth, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The decrease was driven by students 25 and older, with 419,000 fewer enrolled in the fall of 2012 from a year earlier, according to data the Census […]
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South Tahoe High School was on a temporary lockdown this morning. South Lake Tahoe police officers were in the area on a case involving a high-risk warrant. It was at their request the school go on lockdown. This was done as a precautionary measure. The lockdown was over at 9:31am Wednesday. — Lake Tahoe News […]
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By KTVU-TV California communities are spending $428 million dollars a year to keep plastic and other trash off the streets and keep it from polluting waterways and beaches, an environmental group said in a new report. For many, “soda bottles, food wrappers, and cigarette butts are just forgotten bits of muck that hit the street […]
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By Kathryn Reed Who gets to sell what and where dominated Tuesday’s South Lake Tahoe City Council meeting. At the root of the discussion is what the five electeds want the city to look like. Less junky was the overwhelming, though not unanimous, decision. No longer will arts and crafts festivals be allowed in South […]
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By Barbara Barte Osborn, Sacramento Bee TRUCKEE – Mired in the bureaucracy of a contract dispute and lacking the funds to hire a coordinator, California state parks officials have delayed the opening of a new museum at Donner Memorial State Park. Instead of opening this fall, the High Sierra Crossing Museum – a 9,400-square-foot structure […]
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The five North Tahoe Fire Department firefighters who were sent to the Rim Fire are expected back in Tahoe Tuesday tonight. They have been helping fight the Yosemite area inferno for nearly two weeks. Firefighter Greg Smith shot the photos from the camp burn over when he and his trainee were caught in a safety […]
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By AP A federal appeals court has upheld Douglas County High School’s decision to expel a former student who referenced the Virginia Tech massacre and threatened violence against classmates through social media five years ago. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week that Landon Wynar’s threat to massacre classmates at at the […]
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