By Autoweek Culminating a deal that has been in the works for the last year, Sal Fish, longtime president of desert racing sanctioning body SCORE International, has sold the organization to racer and businessman Roger Norman. The sale marks the culmination of a lifetime of work for the seller. Fish got his start in desert […]
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By Laurel Rosenhall, Sacramento Bee With the cost of going to college already more than $30,000 a year at many California campuses, is it possible to earn a bachelor’s degree for just $10,000 – total? Assemblyman Dan Logue, R-Marysville, hopes so. Borrowing an idea being promoted by Republican governors in Texas and Florida, the GOP […]
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Updated Jan. 6 6:55am: One person is dead in South Lake Tahoe from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Shots rang out behind the Jack-in-the-Box north of Highway 50 at about 9:30pm Saturday after a fight between unknown persons erupted at an apartment complex near the streets of Rubicon, Brockway and Sussex. South Lake Tahoe police Chief […]
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By Debbie Arrington, Sacramento Bee Snow – so beautiful, so tempting, so dangerous. Drawn by its sparkling presence, thousands of outdoor enthusiasts will trek to the Sierra Nevada this season to experience snow’s magic. But with more than 16 feet of snow at many resorts so far, this season already has had tragic reminders that […]
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By Hoa Nguyen, Press of Atlantic City Big D — as Don Marrandino was known when he ran Harrah’s Tahoe and Harveys — stepped down as head of Caesars Entertainment properties in Atlantic City and Philadelphia on Friday, according to the company. No reason was given for his departure, although company officials said in a […]
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By Sanford Nax, Sacramento Business Journal Home sales around Lake Tahoe increased in 2012, with a 34 percent gain in units sold and a 40 percent jump in sales volume, according to a year-end report released by Chase International of Lake Tahoe. Tahoe City and Incline Village experienced the biggest jumps in sales, with 77 […]
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About 100 acres in the Upper Echo Lakes area could be thinned beginning later this year. It is likely to take six years for the U.S. Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit to do all the work. The project is intended to reduce the risk of wildfire and improve firefighting effectiveness. Forest Supervisor Nancy […]
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A Truckee man was arrested this week in a case involving the theft of several snowblowers. In the last two months of 2012 suspects were specifically targeting Honda snowblowers, which are popular in the Truckee Tahoe area, and have an average retail price of $3,000, according to Truckee police officers. On tips from residents officers […]
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Updated Jan. 4 2pm: El Dorado County sheriff’s Lt. Pete Van Arnum said while there appears to be no foul play in the death of Petaluma resident Alyssa Byrne, the investigation is ongoing to determine how she ended up off the side of Pioneer Trail. “There is conflicting information about this case. We aren’t exactly […]
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Rescue crews have located a body Friday morning near Cold Creek in El Dorado County on the outskirts of South Lake Tahoe. It is not known at this time if it is that of missing Petaluma teenager Alyssa Byrne. Search and rescue teams had resumed looking for the 19-year-old this morning. They started at the […]
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