An Incline Village homeowner is reporting more than $75,000 in damage and stolen goods from a vacation renter. Washoe County sheriff’s deputies said the home had been rented for a number of days by a couple using a fraudulent credit card issued by a foreign country. When the rental company returned to the home on […]
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By Evan Halper, Los Angeles Times The Trump administration, seeking to force a defiant California to cooperate with its agenda of stepped-up immigrant deportations, went to federal court Tuesday to invalidate three state laws — the administration’s most direct challenge yet to the state’s policies. Administration officials say the three laws in question, all […]
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By Gillian Flaccus, AP PORTLAND — Scientists have found dramatically declining snowpack across the American West over the past six decades that will likely cause water shortages in the region that cannot be managed by building new reservoirs, according to a study published last week. The study led by scientists from Oregon State University and […]
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The El Dorado County Board of Supervisors has rescheduled the special vacation home rental meeting for March 24. It will be from 1-3pm in the multipurpose room at South Tahoe Middle School. Last week’s planned meeting had to be canceled because of weather and the meeting last month was shutdown because of overcrowding.
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By Tara Lohan, Water Deeply Last month, California’s State Water Resources Control Board postponed a decision on the adoption of new statewide regulations meant to curb wasteful water practices. The regulations would make permanent some rules California enacted temporarily during the recent drought, which ended last year. After several public comment periods this winter, water board […]
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Postal carriers in and around the Lake Tahoe area are having a hard time delivering mail because they can’t reach mailboxes. Carriers were unable to deliver to approximately 500 addresses in the last week because side streets were impassable or mailboxes were inaccessible in Truckee, Incline Village, Crystal Village and South Lake Tahoe. The U.S. […]
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By Richard N. Velotta, Las Vegas Review-Journal If state gaming regulators follow the lead of Gov. Brian Sandoval’s 12-member Gaming Policy Committee, the gaming industry and Nevada’s new marijuana distributors will never share a business relationship. The only time their paths may cross will be when marijuana companies stage conferences at resort convention centers and […]
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By Kathryn Reed The South Lake Tahoe City Council on Tuesday again demonstrated its dysfunction. Mayor Wendy David on Monday scheduled a special closed session meeting for March 6 at 5pm. Only the mayor or a majority of the council may schedule such a meeting. David admitted she called the meeting. She did not elaborate. […]
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By Michael Scott Davidson, Las Vegas Review-Journal The state of Nevada refuses to divulge how much it has paid former employees for their unused sick and vacation leave. Since October, the Las Vegas Review-Journal has sought comprehensive information documenting how much money individual employees received when they retired, resigned or were fired. The request, if […]
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By Kathryn Reed It’s official – Nancy Kerry is no longer city manager of South Lake Tahoe. “We’ve accepted the resignation of Nancy Kerry effective immediately,” Mayor Wendy David said after emerging from about a 30-minute closed session meeting on March 6 at 6:05pm. Kerry told Lake Tahoe News, “I’ve really enjoyed the 10 gratifying […]
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