By Pamela Nonga Ngue and Michelle Murphy, California News Service WASHINGTON — California stands to lose as much as $4.5 billion in federal funding and more than 200,000 jobs next year if Congress fails to reach a deficit reduction agreement by Dec. 31. The automatic cuts, part of a larger package of steep spending reductions […]
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By Ed Fletcher, Sacramento Bee A health study on the effects of a planned biomass energy facility near Lake Tahoe has given the project positive marks. The report, released Monday, found the proposed 2-megawatt facility turning forest slash into energy would have positive health impacts, with few negative effects. After getting community pushback on a […]
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A suspect in the Red Hawk Casino killing has been arrested. Juarez Estephen, 33, was taken into custody Dec. 3 at 10pm at a residence on Cothrin Ranch Road on the West Slope. He is accused of killing 19-year-old Gene McArn on Nov. 21. Deputies said they surrounded the residence and Estephen surrendered peacefully. However, […]
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By Scott Shafer, KQED-TV Four days before the U.S. Supreme Court met to ostensibly discuss California’s Proposition 8, a Nevada District Court issued a ruling upholding that state’s ban on same-sex marriage. The ruling by Judge Robert C. Jones, a George W. Bush appointee, holds that Nevada’s law does not violate the Equal Protection Clause […]
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By Jason Blevins, Denver Post Vail Resorts on Tuesday announced a $60.6 million loss for the August-October quarter, compared to $55.7 million in the same period last year. The resort company’s total net revenue for the quarter was $116.4 million, almost identical to the revenue from the same quarter of last year. Vail Resorts always […]
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By Dan Spano Go back in time two years, when the housing market was experiencing low sales, high volume of inventory and high interest in buying foreclosures and short sales. Skip forward to today when the housing market is seeing high sales, low volume of inventory and high interest in buying luxury homes. News out […]
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By Kathryn Reed KSL Capital Partners, the owners of Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows, now owns nearly one-quarter of Whistler Blackcomb in British Columbia. The deal is expected to be completed today. Denver-based KSL will acquire Intrawest’s 9,092,500 common shares of Whistler Blackcomb Holdings, which amount to about 24 percent of the corporation’s issued and […]
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By Kathryn Reed No ski resort is going to please all of the people, but it is possible one pass can please most of the people. That is the hope of officials at Sierra-at-Tahoe, Alpine Meadows and Squaw Valley. (Alpine and Squaw have the same owners.) All three resorts are unique – in terms of […]
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By C. Johnson, News-10 Ground and aerial searches have not turned up any signs of a missing couple who left Citrus Heights last Thursday for Gardnerville. Roderick Paul Clifton, 44, of Citrus Heights/Gardnerville and Paula Lane, 46, of Gardnerville were reported missing by relatives when they didn’t answer their cellphones and didn’t return to Nevada […]
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By Chad Terhune, Los Angeles Times Two nurses examined an earthquake victim writhing in pain inside a yellow triage tent recently on the lawn of Redlands Community Hospital. They suspected the woman had head trauma, a broken leg and internal bleeding as part of a disaster drill that morning for a magnitude 7.9 earthquake. The […]
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