By Kathryn Reed The much talked about multimillion-dollar streetscape improvement to Harrison Avenue is not going to happen. At least not this year. It was decided by South Lake Tahoe officials and property owners to push back the project to 2014 so everything can be completed in one year. The thinking is that it would […]
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By Carla Rivera, Los Angeles Times Fewer than half of California’s community college students transferred to a four-year school or earned an associate’s degree in 2011-12, the lowest level of completion in five years, according to data released Tuesday by the chancellor’s office. Statewide, 49.2 percent of students who enrolled in 2006 achieved those goals […]
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North Lake Tahoe casinos had a dramatic jump in revenues – 35.26 percent – in February from 2012. South Lake Tahoe’s numbers were up, too – 7.8 percent. The Nevada Gaming Control Board released the numbers Wednesday morning. Statewide, casinos collected $1.073 billion in gaming revenue. This is an increase of 15.1 percent from February […]
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Publisher’s note: This is one of a few stories about construction planned for the Lake Tahoe Basin this summer. By Kathryn Reed Work on Highway 89 between Tahoma and Tahoe City started Tuesday. And it won’t be done until October 2016. Caltrans will have many of the highways in the Lake Tahoe Basin torn up […]
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By Kathryn Reed Hear that sound? It used to be a loud bass that rattled nerves. Now it’s the cha-ching of cash registers – in the literal sense of local businesses and the figurative sense of city coffers and college admissions. The reason? SnowGlobe. Chad Donnelly wants to hear more of that cha-ching sound as […]
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By Matt Stensland, Steamboat Today A third person who is thought to have been involved with selling cocaine that later turned out to be methamphetamine was taken into custody this week in Steamboat Springs. Margie “Maggie” A. Levin, 26, had a warrant for her arrest and was booked into Routt County Jail on Thursday on […]
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By Richard N. Velotta, Las Vegas Sun Virginia “is for lovers.” Kentucky has “unbridled spirit.” And now, Nevada is “A World Within. A State Apart.” State tourism leaders today unveiled the state’s new slogan, which has been almost two years in the making and cost close to $9 million. Officials also debuted the first television […]
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By Village Life A former El Dorado County district attorney was arrested March 30 for allegedly driving while under the influence. At 3:45am, an El Dorado County sheriff’s deputy stopped a black Hyundai Sonata for impeding traffic on El Dorado Hills Boulevard south of Highway 50 in El Dorado Hills, a press release from the […]
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By Kathryn Reed A show of force late Monday afternoon by El Dorado County employees prevented the chief probation officer and others from being found in contempt of court. El Dorado County Superior Court Judge Steve Bailey summoned Greg Sly to his courtroom April 8 to talk about the staffing situation at the Juvenile Detention […]
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By Torey Van Oot, Sacramento Bee A technology long deployed on the battlefield could be coming to a farm, newspaper or police station near you. An expected boom in the use of nonmilitary “unmanned aerial vehicles,” commonly known as drones, has California looking to regain some of the aviation industry swagger it enjoyed for decades […]
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