Coming on the heels of losing the El Dorado County recorder-clerk race in June, political consultant Dan Dellinger has now lost his case in the Third District Court of Appeal. The jurists upheld a 2016 ruling by the Sacramento County Superior Court that awarded more than $30,000 in attorney’s fees to El Dorado County in […]
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The League to Save Lake Tahoe is teaming with Chariot to launch microtransit in South Tahoe’s most traffic-congested tourist area. The pilot program starts July 9. Chariot will operate frequent shuttles along a route connecting the Stateline casino corridor to Lakeview Commons in South Lake Tahoe. Each air-conditioned shuttle seats 14. To ride the microtransit […]
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The rising price of houses at Lake Tahoe is not slowing down sales. For the first half of 2018, prices are up 18 percent compared to 2017, with the median price at $679,500. The number sold is up 27 percent for the same time period. The figures are provided by Chase International. Million-dollar homes continue to soar. […]
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Volunteers picked up 1,458 pounds of trash from Lake Tahoe beaches on July 5. It took 499 people to remove the litter left behind from those spending July 4 here. Cleanup participants gathered at five locations around Lake Tahoe, and together removed litter from six miles of shoreline, including Commons Beach in Tahoe City, Kings […]
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Hours after the last firework was shot off July 4 on the South Shore, one of three barges caught fire. The fire was reported at 12:27am July 5. The fireworks started at 9:45pm July 4 and were over less than 30 minutes later. The crew on board was unable to extinguish the blaze. Tahoe Douglas […]
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By Erin Baldassari, Bay Area News Group With a measure to repeal California’s recently enacted gas taxes and registration fees heading to the November ballot, many drivers want to know, just where does all that money actually go? “It’s extremely complicated,” said Asha Agrawal, the director of the National Transportation Finance Center at San Jose’s […]
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By Amy Graff, San Francisco Chronicle Drought has crept back into Northern California. Despite a flurry of late storms in spring, precipitation for the winter season was below normal and the region is facing moderate drought and abnormally dry conditions once again, according to the federal government’s U.S. Drought Monitor. What’s more, temperatures were above […]
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By Audrey Carlsen and Denise Lu, New York Times A record number of women won Nevada’s primaries in June. And there is now a possibility for the Legislature to have more women than men, which would be a first in United States history. Of the states that have had primaries so far, at least eight […]
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The Meadow View Place workforce housing development in Martis Valley will get a $16.25 million boost from California’s Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities Program. The project is one of 19 statewide approved for a grant this year by the state’s Strategic Growth Council, and will be funded by proceeds from the Cap-and-Trade greenhouse gas auction. […]
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Smoke continues to fill the Lake Tahoe Basin. It is coming from fires burning to the west and south of here. According to the National Weather Service in Reno it is coming from the County Fire near Sacramento and the Lions Fires west of Mammoth. The wind is supposed to pick up Tuesday afternoon, which […]
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