By Kathryn Reed Maintaining its nearly 5,000 properties and paying the people to do so are the priorities of the California Tahoe Conservancy in this era of austerity. New projects, while important, are farther down the priority list. This was the bleak news delivered to the board on Thursday at its meeting at Lake Tahoe […]
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By Bettina Boxall, Los Angeles Times Judging by a new statewide poll, California lawmakers were smart to pull an $11.1-billion water bond off last fall’s ballot. The Legislature has twice postponed the bond measure’s day at the polls, worried that it would go down to defeat at a time of high unemployment and budget woes. […]
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Police officers still have not caught the man who on March 7 robbed the El Dorado Savings Bank at 3443 Lake Tahoe Blvd. in South Lake Tahoe. But they have released a sketch of the suspect. He is described as white, between 22- and 28-years-old, 5-foot-11inches, thin, wearing a dark colored sweat shirt with the […]
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By Renée Frojo, San Francisco Business Times “Your life called. It wants its balance back.” That’s one of the lines from North Lake Tahoe’s newest advertising campaign that’s trying to take some of the credit for the destination’s surprising boost in hotel bookings. Despite the severe lack of snow, hotel bookings in Tahoe are reportedly […]
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By Kathryn Reed Remove development on the lake to provide better views. Have hotels near bike-pedestrian paths. More access to public transportation. Boardwalks. More kayaking. Decrease the number of driveways at Bijou Center. Make Lakeside Beach public. Those are some of the ideas the public came up with at a meeting Wednesday night in regards […]
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By Christine McConville, Boston Herald A national data privacy group is seeing red over a new CVS policy that requires workers who use company health insurance to report their weight, and body fat and glucose levels to the insurer — or pay a $600-a-year penalty. “This is an incredibly coercive and invasive thing to ask […]
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By Chad Terhune, Los Angeles Times California consumers don’t have easy access to actual prices for medical care, according to a national report card that gave the state a D for its dismal showing. Overall, 36 states received a D or F in the report issued Monday by two nonprofit healthcare groups that analyzed government […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe is balking over the $35,000 connection fee the water district is imposing in order for there to be ample water to irrigate Linear Park. This stretch along Highway 50 isn’t really a park, but instead a paved path with landscaping from McDonald’s to Holiday Inn Express in front of […]
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By Kathryn Reed One of South Lake Tahoe’s rundown hotels on Highway 50 is about to undergo some much-needed rehabilitation. “By April 30 it will be looking good from the road,” Robert Durward said of the Trout Creek Motel. He is the new owner of the 11-room lodging facility near the Town and Country Center. […]
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By Cathy Locke, Sacramento Bee Agents from the California Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control, in cooperation with more than 100 law enforcement agencies, conducted a record-setting statewide decoy “shoulder-tap” operation. The task force operation was conducted Friday and resulted in 506 arrests statewide, surpassing last year’s record of 435 arrests, according to a department news […]
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