The U.S. Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit’s Ski with a Ranger at Heavenly Mountain Resort begins Jan. 22. Tours are every Monday and Friday beginning at 1pm, last approximately one-hour and continue through April 1, weather permitting. Participants must be intermediate level skiers/boarders or above and provide their own lift ticket. No reservations […]
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UC Berkeley Professor Ian Haney-Lopez will give a talk Feb. 8 at Lake Tahoe Community College titled Trumpeting Racism: Race, Politics, and Economic Jeopardy for All. The free event will be in the Duke Theatre starting at 6:30pm. Haney-Lopez will also be signing his book and answering questions. Haney-Lopez is one of the nation’s leading thinkers […]
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By Sharon Bernstein, Reuters Gov. Jerry Brown warned on Thursday of near-apocalyptic water shortages if his $15 billion plan to divert water from a Northern California river for use elsewhere gets bogged down in political and environmental disputes. The plan to remove water north of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, the fragile source of much […]
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By Kathryn Reed MEYERS — State agencies are in the process of swapping land on the South Shore in an effort to be more efficient. “Our hope is the pubic won’t notice anything,” Marilyn Linken, supervisor of the Sierra District of California State Parks, told Lake Tahoe News. The California Tahoe Conservancy is giving nine […]
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To the community, Azul Latin Kitchen was the Adopt A Day of Nourishment sponsor for the Bread & Broth dinner served at St. Theresa Church Grace Hall on Jan. 4. It is a great fit to have the Tahoe restaurant join with B&B to provide meals to local individuals who are in need of hot […]
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By Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazette-Journal Unusual snowpack conditions in the Sierra Nevada are contributing to a type of avalanche problem that in the past decade has rarely been widespread in the region. That’s according to the Sierra Avalanche Center, a nonprofit organization that partners with the U.S. Forest Service to observe and analyze snow conditions […]
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By Joann Eisenbrandt PLACERVILLE – Rural Communities United, an El Dorado County unincorporated citizens group, filed a lawsuit Jan. 13 in El Dorado County Superior Court asking the court to void the Board of Supervisors’ Dec. 15 approval of the Targeted General Plan Amendment/Zoning Ordinance update and certification of its environmental impact report. The base […]
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In its capacity as the Tahoe Metropolitan Planning Organization, the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency this week released a draft active transportation plan for public review and comment. The plan is designed to help local, state, and federal agencies continue to develop multiple-benefit projects to improve transportation options for bicyclists and pedestrians in the Lake Tahoe Basin. […]
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By Jim Sloan, Tahoe In Depth Many point to the 1960 Winter Olympics at Squaw Valley as the event that kickstarted skiing in the Sierra and the Tahoe region. The event, only the eighth Winter Games ever held, was the first Winter Olympics ever televised. But the truth is that skiing had been an established, […]
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By Eli Segall, Las Vegas Sun Nevada homeowners were slapped with a rising tally of foreclosure filings last year, bucking a nationwide drop as the state remained among the hardest hit in the country. A total of 16,533 properties, or 1.4 percent of homes statewide, received a foreclosure-related filing in 2015. That’s up 6.6 percent […]
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