Updated 12:34pm: By Kathryn Reed Placer County has put itself further into debt by agreeing to give employees four years of raises. Supervisors on July 25 granted the more than 2,000 employees a 4 percent wage increase starting in August, a 3 percent increase in July 2018, 2 percent increase in 2019, and another 2 […]
Read moreBy Hannah Knowles, Sacramento Bee A body believed to be that of a college student presumed to have drowned in Lake Tahoe in June 2016 was recovered Monday afternoon near the area where he was last seen. A high-tech search team hired by the family of 20-year-old Marc Ma was located about 1:05 p.m., according […]
Read moreBy Hudson Sangree, Sacramento Bee Sacramento home builders are trying to deal with a severe shortage of construction workers by training high school students in summer internships. They want the teens and their parents to consider the possibility that a construction career might be a good alternative to college, though that can require some convincing. […]
Read moreIt’s done. Starting this week there is no longer a need to drive through Carson City to get to Reno, or for those in Reno to drive through the capital city to get to Lake Tahoe. The last leg of the Interstate 580 Carson City Freeway is ready for vehicles. The earliest the southern end […]
Read moreBy Michael McGough, Sacramento Bee Some of the summer’s worst wildfires have spanned tens of thousands of acres in California. As heat waves continue in the dry season, a new weapon may soon be at firefighters’ disposal to help combat wildfires across the state. The Global SuperTanker – a converted Boeing 747-400 jet capable of […]
Read moreBy Eli Stillman, Paradise Post Thousands of rural residents including many homeowners in El Dorado County will no longer be paying an annual fire prevention fee that was enacted in 2014. The fire prevention fee of more than $153 for homeowners in the state responsibility area totals $83 million annually for state government. The fee […]
Read moreBy Judy Peterson, Bay Area News Group A Los Gatos resident who is fed up with cut-through beach traffic has started a change.org petition that she plans to personally deliver to Waze and Google Maps officials, telling them they’re “ruining” the quality of life in Los Gatos. Debbie Moessinger launched the petition and spoke about gridlock […]
Read moreBy David R. Baker, San Francisco Chronicle When a solar eclipse darkens the sky next month, California energy regulators have a small request: Don’t turn on the lights. Or, if you must, please make sure they’re LEDs. The Aug. 21 eclipse that will completely block the sun across a wide arc of North America arrives […]
Read moreThe luxury housing market in the Lake Tahoe Basin has helped the total sales for the first half of the year reach more than a half billion dollars. According to Chase International, the value of single-family residences in the basin for the first six months of 2017 was $511,139,859. For the same period in 2016 […]
Read moreBy Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazette-Journal With wildfires raging throughout the western U.S. a Reno-based National Guard unit will join the firefighting effort. The deployment of a specially equipped Nevada Air National Guard C-130 comes at the request of the U.S. Forest Service. The aircraft is equipped with Modular Airborne Firefighting Systems, referred to as MAFFS, […]
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