By Michelle Robertson, San Francisco Chronicle At 24 years old, Ben Hunter is a homeowner, but a sizable portion of his paycheck goes to rent for a room in an 11-person house in San Francisco. That’s because the home he owns is located about 3,000 miles east, in Atlantic City, N.J. About 35 percent of […]
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Updated 10:35am: There was yet another power outage on the South Shore. There we 3,704 Liberty Utilities customers with no electricity on Friday morning. A locked out circuit at the Meyers substation is the problem. Crews don’t know what caused the problem Sept. 8. There was out for a couple hours. — Lake Tahoe News […]
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By Associated Press Vast stands of dead timber in the Western U.S. have forced firefighters to shift tactics, trying to stay out of the shadow of lifeless, unstable trees that could come crashing down with deadly force. About 6.3 billion dead trees are still standing in 11 Western states, up from 5.8 billion five years […]
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Truckee police officers are looking for a man they believe stole more than $100,000 worth of property from local business owners. Richard Anthony Lenning, 37, is suspected of stealing numerous vehicles and then using them to ram the front door for the purpose of committing commercial burglary. A felony no-bail warrant has been issued. Lenning […]
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By CBS/AP Global SuperTanker Service’s Boeing 747-400 marked its first use in the United States after it was activated to fight a California wildfire. The company says CalFire exercised a call-when-needed contract Wednesday to fight a fire in Butte County about 10 miles east of Lake Oroville. At the time, the SuperTanker was at McClellan […]
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By Dale Kasler and Ryan Sabalow Wildfires from the Oregon border to Los Angeles. Temperatures hitting 100 degrees in San Francisco, and higher in Sacramento, capping off the hottest summer in California history. Not to mention two of the most ferocious hurricanes ever recorded. It has to be climate change, right? The answer is a […]
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Construction has started on repair work for a section of Highway 89 in the Emerald Bay area. The work involves replacing a retaining wall and the extension of an existing barrier slab and rail. The staging area will be at the Eagle Falls parking area alongside southbound Highway 89. Most, if not all, of the […]
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By Kathryn Reed Those who run the South Shore bus system and those who use it know it’s a bumpy ride, at least figuratively. No longer using the never understood BlueGo name, the Tahoe Transportation District is just calling the system by the government body’s name. New buses have the TTD logo and color scheme. […]
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By Tanya Mohn, Forbes High-tech, health and engineering are among the fields people typically think about when it comes to robust workforce opportunities, but travel is one of the most potent job creators of any American industry. In this country, workers who began their careers in travel and tourism achieved higher peak salary than most […]
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By Todd Prince, Las Vegas Review-Journal Two casino operators have called on members of Congress to move ahead with immigration reform as some employees may lose their right to stay in the United States. The Trump administration announced Tuesday that it was winding down the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival program, or DACA, which provided […]
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