By Matthew Rocco, Fox Business Liberty Media Corp., headed by Chairman John Malone, agreed on Tuesday to buy 27.3 percent of cable operator Charter Communications, which provides service in the Lake Tahoe Basin, in a $2.62 billion deal. Liberty will purchase the stake from Apollo Management, Oaktree Capital Management and Crestview Partners. The deal includes […]
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By Erica Perez and Agustin Armendariz, California Watch The state’s 72 community college districts spend tens of millions of dollars on administrative positions that could be consolidated or shared by districts a short drive away, a California Watch analysis has found. In the wake of huge budget shortfalls, California’s vast community college system has reduced […]
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South Tahoe Public Utility District’s board unanimously agreed to change its elections to even years. This means the current board members will all have one year added to their term. The district chose to do this because Lake Tahoe Unified School District and Lake Tahoe Community College voted to alter the years they have elections. […]
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By Dale Kasler, Sacramento Bee Federal prosecutors filed criminal charges today in the CalPERS bribery case, naming the big pension fund’s former chief executive and a Nevada businessman. Brian Stretch, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney in San Francisco, said former CalPERS Chief Executive Fred Buenrostro and former board member Alfred Villalobos were named in […]
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By Michael Doyle, Miami Herald WASHINGTON — A long-running Sierra Nevada forest planning dispute will now be settled by the Supreme Court in what could shape up as a crucial public lands case. On Monday, the court agreed to referee the dispute pitting environmentalists with the Portland-based Pacific Rivers Council against the U.S. Forest Service […]
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By Anthony York, Los Angeles Times SACRAMENTO — Although many of California’s cities and counties have been struggling financially, putting off road repairs, cutting back library hours and reducing police patrols, there is one way in which they have not held back: hiring Sacramento lobbyists. Local governments’ spending on advocacy in the Capitol has surged […]
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By David Bauder, AP NEW YORK — Years of newsroom cutbacks have had a demonstrable impact on the quality of digital, newspaper and television news and in how consumers view that work, a study released Monday found. Nearly one-third of consumers surveyed by the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism said they have […]
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By Kathryn Reed A whole lot of brown gunk is coming out of storm pipes that flow into Lake Tahoe. While that isn’t news, greater awareness is being brought to the issue. The League to Save Lake Tahoe has identified 50 pipes in the basin carrying runoff water, but believes there are more. One of […]
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By CBS-San Francisco Nevada has signed a cooperative agreement with wild horse protection advocates allowing longtime critics of mustang roundups to have the first chance at purchasing state-captured animals that otherwise might end up at the slaughterhouse. The agreement between Nevada’s Department of Agriculture and California-based Return to Freedom Inc. doesn’t affect the roundup of […]
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The Kings Beach Commercial Core Improvement Project utility relocation work along Highway 28 through Kings Beach is scheduled to resume this week and continue throughout the spring. Listed below are dates and corresponding locations slated for this work: March 19-22: Expect work to be conducted by the Log Cabin Caffe, eastbound Highway 28. March 22-27: […]
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