By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – Less than one hour before the Tahoe Transportation District board was to vote on creating a free ski bus shuttle on the North Shore, negotiations were still ongoing. This is because days before the Dec. 7 vote Northstar and Diamond Peak ski resorts backed out of their previous commitments. Squaw […]
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By Kathryn Reed With the greater Lake Tahoe area being in the news regarding access to public lands for snowmobilers and human-powered recreationists, the California-Nevada Snowmobile Association is having its convention in Stateline. Greg McKay, a member of the Tahoe Sierra Snowmobile Club, told his group at a Dec. 6 meeting that discussions with Snowlands […]
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By Kathryn Reed Red Hawk Casino and El Dorado County have rewritten their agreement from 2006 and still the Lake Tahoe Basin portion of the county isn’t getting a dime. “We’ve had the biggest negative impacts on the East Slope. They get all the positives and we get all the negatives,” South Lake Tahoe City […]
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By Kathryn Reed It’s beginning to feel and sound a little like flu season. “Although seasonal influenza seems to be hitting other parts of the country early this year, we have had very low rates of influenza so far in Tahoe,” Greg Bergner, physician at Barton Urgent Care, told Lake Tahoe News. The Centers for […]
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By Kathryn Reed MEYERS – Aromas of freshly made food waft from a nondescript building tucked off Highway 89. Three hot meals a day are served here. Boarders are upstairs sleeping – in the middle of day. Today starts week four of winter at the Meyers’ Caltrans depot. When it’s storming out – and it […]
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By Kathryn Reed Going to 12-hour shifts was supposed to put more officers on the streets of South Lake Tahoe on weekend nights during times when crime more often occurs. That hasn’t happened despite the change from 10-hour to 12-hour shifts about 100 days ago. Police Chief Brian Uhler blames it on staffing issues. Three […]
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By Kathryn Reed No ski resort is going to please all of the people, but it is possible one pass can please most of the people. That is the hope of officials at Sierra-at-Tahoe, Alpine Meadows and Squaw Valley. (Alpine and Squaw have the same owners.) All three resorts are unique – in terms of […]
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By Kathryn Reed People are coming to Lake Tahoe and they are spending money. And projections for 2013 are that more of the same is going to happen. “We are going to have our best year sales-wise. It’s a combination of people staying closer to home and fabulous weather,” Tom Turner, owner of the 14-year-old […]
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By Kathryn Reed MEYERS – While the cha-ching of cash registers could not be heard, the swiping of credit cards across the Square was evident as people turned out en masse to buy local and think global. Halfway into the Dec. 1 event more than 100 people had filtered through the doors of Bona Fide […]
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By Kathryn Reed With a wind advisory in effect through 4am Sunday, public works crews in the Lake Tahoe Basin will be patrolling streets through the weekend to make sure storm drains are not clogged with pine needles or other debris, which can cause streets to flood. But there is nothing crews can do to […]
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