By Adam Nagourney, New York Times LOS ANGELES — After years of grueling battles over state budget deficits and spending cuts, California has a new challenge on its hands: too much money. An unexpected surplus is fueling an argument over how the state should respond to its turn of good fortune. The amount is a […]
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By Rosanna Xia, Los Angeles Times A magnitude 5.7 temblor Thursday night was the largest earthquake to shake California since 2008 and has generated curiosity from seismologists. The temblor occurred in a rugged section of Northern California that has not been studied as thoroughly as Southern California and the Bay Area and has less monitoring […]
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By Kathryn Reed Between the producer of SnowGlobe wanting to be paid and the use of the field being a question mark, the New Year’s Eve music festival may not come back to South Lake Tahoe for a third year. “The taxpayers voted to provide funds to construct a community play field and therefore the […]
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By Andrew Doughman and Conor Shine, Las Vegas Sun Legislators slogged through dozens of bills Friday, turning the Senate and Assembly chambers into arenas for legislative triumph and death. Following a lengthy day of voting, bills you might find good, bad or just plain weird are headed to Republican Gov. Brian Sandoval, meaning they now […]
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By Karoun Demirjian, Las Vegas Sun Two years ago, the Federal Election Commission deciding to fine former Sen. John Ensign $32,000 for breaking campaign finance laws would have been big news. But in a week filled with scandals, the first punishment levied on the erstwhile senator failed to stir anyone. “It’s old news, and the […]
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By Hudson Sangree, Sacramento Bee The number of Sacramento-area homeowners who owe more than their homes are worth continued tumbling in the first three months of this year, real estate tracking firm Zillow reported this week. In the first quarter of 2013, there were 140,857 homes in so-called negative equity in the Sacramento region, the […]
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A pilot suffered non life-threatening injuries after his plane crashed somewhere on Martis Peak near the Truckee Tahoe Airport on Thursday afternoon. Crews say tough terrain at the crash site forced them to bring in helicopters to rescue the pilot. The unidentified pilot was the only person aboard the plane when it went down about […]
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By Rosanna Xia and Robert J. Lopez, Los Angeles Times More than three dozen aftershocks, ranging up to a magnitude 4.9, have been registered following a 5.7 earthquake about 150 miles northeast of Sacramento, officials said. The first quake struck at about 8:47pm Thursday; its epicenter was about 27 miles southwest of the town of […]
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By Kathryn Reed While the South Lake Tahoe Planning Commission on Thursday spent hours listening to testimony about the parceled down Chateau project, it will ultimately be up to the City Council on June 11 to decide what happens. Much of the dialogue had nothing to do with what the commissioners were asked to take […]
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By Paul Fain, Inside Higher Education Economic and racial stratification is increasing in American higher education, with growing concentrations of needy students at community colleges. Meanwhile, government funding skews toward universities with more advantaged students, due in part to research support and tax breaks. Those are the findings of a new report from a panel […]
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