By Kathryn Reed The $6.3 million Juvenile Treatment Center in South Lake Tahoe has been rife with problems since it opened in 2004. Since September girls aren’t taken there. They must go to the facility in Placerville because there aren’t enough female employees to care for them. This isn’t the first time the girls have […]
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By Sarah Tilton, Wall Street Journal Workday co-founder David Duffield has paid $25.5 million for the Osprey Estate in Incline Village, according to public records. It is the largest sale at Lake Tahoe since 2008, according to listing agent Kerry Donovan of Chase International; the firm represented the buyer and the seller. Duffield, also the […]
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By Cy Ryan, Las Vegas Sun CARSON CITY — A state advisory committee wants the governor to restore funding to help problem gamblers that was cut in half in 2011. A letter sent to Gov. Brian Sandoval today by the Advisory Committee on Problem Gambling says it “strongly urges you to recommend restoring this funding […]
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By CBS-5 SAN FRANCISCO — When is the last time you checked your receipts? Getting overcharged at the register is more common that you might think. In a follow up to an undercover investigation into overcharges at Safeway operated stores, ConsumerWatch found Safeway Inc. is even more likely to overcharge you than the average California […]
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By Joe Mozingo, Los Angeles Times EUREKA — State scientists, grappling with an explosion of marijuana growing on the North Coast, recently studied aerial imagery of a small tributary of the Eel River, spawning grounds for endangered coho salmon and other threatened fish. In the remote, 37-square-mile patch of forest, they counted 281 outdoor pot […]
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By Kathryn Reed Hours of phone calls, countless emails and several meetings resulted in the state Department of Finance on Dec. 26 saying it only wants a check for $274,473 instead of $1,911,519. South Lake Tahoe City Manager Nancy Kerry played hardball with the state agency when it came to what the successor agency to […]
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By Kathryn Reed Three people familiar to South Lake Tahoe voters have told Lake Tahoe News they want to be appointed to the City Council – Kathay Lovell, Austin Sass and Bruce Grego. With Claire Fortier abandoning her seat midterm, it means the four remaining members were left with the decision to either appointment a […]
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Douglas County sheriff’s deputies are preparing for upward of 60,000 celebrants to ring in the New Year in the Stateline casino core. Highway 50 may be closed to vehicle traffic for public safety. If that should occur, vehicle traffic will be diverted around the Stateline casino core area using upper and lower Lake Parkway Drive […]
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By Sharon Noguchi, San Jose Mercury News Signaling that California again is marching to its own drum — perhaps trailing the parade — the federal government has denied the state’s request for a waiver from a key U.S. education law, thus assuring that schools will have to keep striving to meet what’s generally accepted as […]
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Troopers from the Nevada Highway Patrol investigated 92 motor vehicle crashes in Northern Nevada between 10am Wednesday an 6am Thursday. Thirty-three crashes involved injuries, while the remaining 59 were property damage only. Most of the activity was in the greater Reno-Sparks area. As for the injury crashes outside of the Reno-Sparks area, three were in […]
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