By Lauren Schuker Blum, Atthew Dolan and Candace Jackson, Wall Street Journal The hottest new tech-industry accessory? A house in Tahoe. Venture capitalist Steven Stull recently paid $11.875 million for a 10,000-square-foot waterfront estate on Lake Tahoe in Incline Village. David Duffield, co-founder of Workday, paid $25.5 million for another Incline Village estate, according to […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe this week revised its policy for how contracts are awarded, and then later revised the lease with the restaurateur at Lake Tahoe Airport. The overall contract issue keeps rearing its head. There are multiple multi-decade agreements in place or ones done decades ago that have not been enforced. The […]
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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 An $11 million erosion control project in South Lake Tahoe has been delayed for at least one month because on Wednesday at a special meeting the City Council threw out all bids and […]
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By Kathryn Reed Before Lukins Brothers Water Company pitches an idea about how to supply the T.J. Maxx building with adequate water to fight a fire, the company is asking the California Public Utility Commission whether all ratepayers can absorb the cost of an interconnection to South Tahoe Public Utility District. “I think if I […]
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By Anjeanette Damon, Las Vegas Sun CARSON CITY — Nevada’s biggest gaming companies went to the Legislature on Wednesday to ask lawmakers to protect them from strip mall slot machine parlors and barroom sports betting kiosks. It’s a Goliath vs. David image. But the big gamers say they need legislative intervention now to protect the […]
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By Dan Spano The median price of homes sold in March was $349,000, exactly $100,000 more than March 2012. This is also the highest monthly figure since March of 2009 when the median was $352,049. Just 30 days ago the median price was $295,000. During the last 12 months, there were 763 closed sales of […]
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The massive Kings Beach face-lift is one step closer to happening now that the state has released money that had been tied up with the dissolution of Placer County’s redevelopment agency. That $10 million is part of the overall $45 million project along Highway 28. Besides improving just more than 1 mile of road, this […]
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By Eriq Gardner, Hollywood Reporter In 1980, a few months before Charlie Ergen co-founded the company that would become Dish Network, he and a gambling buddy strode into a Lake Tahoe casino with the intention of winning a fortune by counting cards. Ergen, then 27, had bought a book called “Playing Blackjack as a Business” […]
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By Kathryn Reed Less than four months after South Lake Tahoe’s less restrictive vicious dog ordinance became the law of the land, the council on Tuesday unanimously agreed to make tweaks to it. No longer will a hearing officer resolve matters. All dog bite cases will be heard in Superior Court. “We believe the hearings […]
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By Dina ElBoghdady, Washington Post Companies can use social media such as Facebook and Twitter to unveil key information about their operations as long as they’ve told investors where to look for it, the Securities and Exchange Commission announced Tuesday. The decision averts a showdown between the SEC and Netflix. The Internet video streaming service […]
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