By Dan Spano We are still seeing a lot of action in the South Lake Tahoe real estate market. The July figures were just released and they continue to show that interest in buying a home in Lake Tahoe is still growing. During the last year we saw homebuyers flock to Lake Tahoe for a […]
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By Kate Taylor, New York Times Cities and towns across the country are pushing municipal unions to accept cheaper health benefits in anticipation of a component of the Affordable Care Act that will tax expensive plans starting in 2018. The so-called Cadillac tax was inserted into the Affordable Care Act at the advice of economists […]
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Updated 3pm: Donovan Boling, 25, of South Lake Tahoe is the cyclist who was injured. —- A bicyclist was seriously injured early this morning in South Lake Tahoe after a construction truck hit him. Names, ages and hometowns of the individuals involved have not been released. A Calstar helicopter landed on Highway 50 to transport […]
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Nevada Department of Wildlife officials today killed a 3-year-old male black bear they said was a threat to public safety. The bear had initially been caught in Glenbrook on June 24. A tag was put in its ear so it could be identified in the future if it caused problems. It was released in the […]
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Instead of leaving the suspicious device in the forest, a woman living on Bella Coola brought it back to her house. Then she called the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office. Deputies from the bomb unit came to the South Shore to handle the call last week. The device was X-rayed and then blown up to […]
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A motorcyclist from Southern Nevada was seriously injured Sunday when a van making a U-turn struck him. Joshua W. Hanlon, 20, of Henderson was pinned under the 1981 VW van, as was his 2013 Kawasaki. He was airlifted to Renown Medical Center in Reno with serious injuries. The driver of the van, Peter Z. Kwan, […]
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By Jack Newsham, Sacramento Bee Foothill residents, as well some property owners in the Lake Tahoe Basin, are bracing for the second year of “fire prevention fees,” a $150 charge that a class-action lawsuit alleges is an illegal tax. The state Board of Equalization began sending bills two weeks ago to more than 700,000 Californians […]
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By Justin Bachman, Bloomberg Businessweek The low-fares, high-fees business model is expanding across the airline industry, and now a third ultralow-cost carrier appears ready to enter the battle between Spirit Airlines and Allegiant Travel for America’s cheapest travelers. Frontier Airlines, the Denver airline known for the majestic wild animals painted on its jets’ tails, may […]
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By Sacramento Bee Firefighters were kept busy Sunday battling three fires in the Eldorado National Forest. The Kentucky Fire started at 11:45am Sunday off Blacksmith Flat Road. Five engines, one helicopter and one hand crew or roughly 40-plus firefighters have been working on the blaze, which had consumed 2 acres by mid-day Sunday. “It is […]
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By Tracie Cone, AP SACRAMENTO — Across the West, early miners digging for gold, silver and copper had no idea that one day something else very valuable would be buried in the piles of dirt and rocks they tossed aside. There’s a rush in the U.S. to find key components of cellphones, televisions, weapons systems, […]
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