By Kathryn Reed It’s another record snow year in Lake Tahoe and the greater Sierra Nevada. It’s just not the kind of record anyone wants to brag about. The National Weather Service in Reno has been collecting data from a station in Tahoe City since 1910. And with a matter of hours to go and […]
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It took search and rescue crews several hours Wednesday to find a Southern California man who had skied under the boundary ropes at Heavenly Mountain Resort. Vahe Saradjian, 62, of Glendale told El Dorado County sheriff’s search and rescue team members that he ducked under the resort boundary ropes near the Powder Bowl Express lift. […]
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By Eli Segall, Las Vegas Sun Southwest Gas Corp. gave shareholders their best year ever with the company in 2012 as rate hikes and new customers pushed up profits. The Lake Tahoe natural-gas provider said it earned $62.4 million of net income, or $1.35 per share, in the three months ending Dec. 31. That’s up […]
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By Chad Terhune, Los Angeles Times California could cut $110 billion in healthcare spending over the next decade, saving the average household $800 a year, by quickly moving away from conventional fee-for-service medicine and embracing more coordinated care, a report says. These findings released Tuesday come from the Berkeley Forum, a new group of healthcare […]
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By Cy Ryan, Las Vegas Sun CARSON CITY — The state Bureau of Consumer Protection wants the rules changed to head off some future rate hikes by NV Energy, which announced last week its profits nearly doubled in 2012. The bureau petitioned the state Public Utilities Commission on Monday to require the utility to reveal […]
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By Kathryn Reed For the second year in a row the water in Lake Tahoe is clearer than the preceding year. As noted last year by the UC Davis scientists who take the measurements, the lake’s clarity has been stable for the last decade. Still, the last time the white dinner plate looking Secchi dish […]
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Updated Feb. 28 10:50am By Kathryn Reed If Highway 50 were to go behind Harrah’s Lake Tahoe and MontBleu casinos, would this be a good financial decision? Yes, according to the study done by Economic & Planning Systems Inc., a Sacramento-based land economics-consulting firm hired by the Tahoe Transportation District. The report says retail sales […]
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By Joel Grover, NBC-4 A bill that would for the first time require California ski areas to report all deaths and injuries to the state has been introduced in the state Senate. California’s 24 ski areas are largely unregulated, making the Golden State the only major ski state with no ski safety law. Previous attempts […]
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Scott Enerson of South Lake Tahoe was sentenced Feb. 25 to seven years in prison. Enerson pulled a gun on a fellow patron at Whiskey Dick’s in June 2012. He pleaded guilty to felony assault with a firearm and the enhancement of using a firearm during the commission of a crime. El Dorado County Assistant […]
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El Dorado County’s financial situation is looking the best it has in years. In a presentation Feb. 25 by Chief Budget Officer Laura Schwartz to the Board of Supervisors it was revealed the current projections are that the general fund revenues will exceed budget by 1 percent for a total of $223,322,518. General fund expenses […]
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