By Liam Dillon, Los Angeles Times A robust effort to attack California’s housing shortage was rejected Tuesday by a state legislative panel at the Capitol, felled in part by opponents who argued that it treated small cities and large ones like San Francisco the same way. The defeat for Senate Bill 827 came in its […]
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Power is expected to be restored to residents in Meyers by 6pm April 18. Liberty Utilities on Wednesday afternoon de-energized underground lines so South Tahoe Public Utility District could fix a fire hydrant. The hydrant had been damaged earlier in the day when a vehicle hit it. This occurred on Friant Drive between Matheson and […]
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By Kathryn Reed Apparently it pays just to show up. The South Lake Tahoe City Council on April 17 agreed to hire Prothman Executive Recruitment to find city manager and city attorney candidates. The votes were 4-1 on each contract, with Councilman Tom Davis in the minority for the city manager vote and Councilman Austin […]
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By Kathryn Reed An adult-use marijuana ordinance is expected to be before the South Lake Tahoe City Council next month, with development agreements and a decision about what to do with the existing medical facility still to be decided. The electeds on April 17 agreed to allow the following licenses: two micro businesses, two retail, […]
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By Kathryn Reed Even though the El Dorado County District Attorney’s Office has initiated an investigation into allegations of illegal activities by the South Lake Tahoe City Council, the five local officials want an airing of grievances at the next council meeting. Councilwoman Brooke Laine started the latest firestorm with her opinion piece published on […]
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By CBS-13 A skier has died at Alpine Meadows Ski Resort today. Jeffrey R. Pearlstein, 33, of Kings Beach, was skiing on a steep run in the Keyhole area about 11am April 17 when he apparently lost control and crashed. Read the whole story
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Comments are being taken on the draft environmental impact statement for a proposed expansion of the Mout Rose ski area. Resort owners want to expand terrain across the highway, which would accessed by a skiable bridge. New lifts would open this terrain up to skiers and riders. The Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest is the lead agency. […]
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By Wayne Parry, AP ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — Carl Icahn’s company has struck an approximately $1.85 billion deal that would fuse the gaming and hotel operations of Tropicana Entertainment to Eldorado Resorts Inc. The agreement, announced early Monday, includes the sale of Tropicana Entertainment Inc.’s real estate to Gaming and Leisure Properties Inc. It doesn’t […]
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A South Shore car owner found out the hard way why leaving food in a vehicle is a bad idea. El Dorado County sheriff’s deputies spent part of April 16 enticing a bruin to leave a vehicle. It did. But left behind was a destroyed interior. “Another very important reason to lock your vehicles up […]
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By Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazette-Journal The series of March storms that slammed the Sierra Nevada made skiers and snowboarders rejoice and provided a much-needed boost to water storage reservoirs in California and Nevada. But even a one-month snow total that rivaled the “Miracle March” of 1991 isn’t enough to erase the snow drought that lingered […]
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