A Portland man was whisked off Mount Tallac via helicopter Saturday after he broke both legs in a 400-foot fall. Brian Meek, 50, was on snowshoes when he lost traction on the ice. He tumbled down the west bowl area, stopping only after hitting a large rock. With the snowy and icy conditions of the […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – Less than one hour before the Tahoe Transportation District board was to vote on creating a free ski bus shuttle on the North Shore, negotiations were still ongoing. This is because days before the Dec. 7 vote Northstar and Diamond Peak ski resorts backed out of their previous commitments. Squaw […]
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By Dale Kasler, Sacramento Bee JACKSON – Name another casino in America where a total stranger can walk up to the boss, pull on his mustache and ask, “Is that real?” This is Rich Hoffman’s world. The portly chief executive of Jackson Rancheria Casino Resort, instantly recognizable from the casino’s comical TV ads, is routinely […]
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By Diane Orson, NPR When Toni Walker is not in Hartford, Conn., serving as a state representative, she can usually be found at the New Haven Adult and Continuing Education Center. “We basically educate approximately 800 people a day,” says Walker, an assistant principal at the center. “It is open enrollment, so when somebody gets […]
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By Kathryn Reed Red Hawk Casino and El Dorado County have rewritten their agreement from 2006 and still the Lake Tahoe Basin portion of the county isn’t getting a dime. “We’ve had the biggest negative impacts on the East Slope. They get all the positives and we get all the negatives,” South Lake Tahoe City […]
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By Richard N. Velotta, Las Vegas Sun SPARKS — Increasing international visitation and taking advantage of technological innovations to increase the number of tourists visiting the state dominated the conversation at the opening day of the lightly attended Governor’s Conference on Tourism on Tuesday. Nearly every presentation referenced strategies to use technology to do more […]
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Besides swearing in a new member and then picking a mayor for the next year at the Dec. 11 South Lake Tahoe City Council meeting, the five have a full agenda. Tahoe Transportation District officials are slated to give an update on projects. Separate is a consent agenda item involving funding between the TTD and […]
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By Terry Baynes and Jonathan Stempel, Reuters WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled on Tuesday that the federal government may be required to pay damages when it releases water from a dam that causes temporary flooding for a property owner downstream. The case addressed the politically charged issue of when government activity that affects private […]
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By Mark Glover, Sacramento Bee A warming climate is melting California’s winter tourism dollars. That’s the conclusion of a new economic analysis released Thursday. The study – titled “Climate Impacts on the Winter Tourism Economy in the United States” and written by two University of New Hampshire researchers – said California and 37 other states […]
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Nevada casinos eked out small gains in October. Revenue was up 1.8 percent to $978.8 million compared to 2011, the Gaming Control Board reported today. Stateline casinos were up 0.7 percent, with revenues of $15. 8 million. Washoe County dropped 7 percent, Carson City was done 5.5 percent. — Lake Tahoe News staff report
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