The U.S. Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit is seeking comments on a proposal for the management and uses of existing roads, trails and facilities in the basin. There are four components: maintenance and management of roads, trails and facilities; authorization of outfitter guide activities; authorization of events; authorization of special use permits for recreational […]
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The Lake Tahoe Visitors Authority and South Tahoe Refuse and Recycling are teaming up to make giving to Christmas Cheer easier than ever. The LTVA’s Drive and Drop for Christmas Cheer takes place Dec. 7-12 from 9am-5pm. Drive through the visitor center parking lot at 3066 Highway 50, South Lake Tahoe, and drop donations of […]
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Minden was founded in 1906 on Dangberg Ranch property by Heinrich Friedrich Dangberg Jr., who named it after a town in Germany near his father’s birthplace. The white columns barely visible at the far end of the street (between the trees) front the Douglas County offices. Built 105 years ago in 1910, “The Heidlberg” (as […]
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By Kathryn Reed GENOA – In the Old West justice was often swift and outside the legal system – especially in the more unruly mining towns. Places like Bodie were accustomed to recording a killing a day. But Genoa was different. It was a civilized trading post in the late 1800s. So when a mob […]
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By Kevin Geraghty, Las Vegas Review-Journal NV Energy has taken great care to keep rates stable while ensuring we are able to meet the energy needs of our state. Between 2006 and 2012, NV Energy engaged in an aggressive building-and-acquisition strategy to increase our owned-generating fleet, in order to shield our customers from unpredictable energy markets. […]
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By USSA BEAVER CREEK, Colo. – Ted Ligety (Park City) and Andrew Weibrecht (Lake Placid, N.Y.) stood on the podium Saturday, taking second and third place, respectively, at the Audi Birds of Prey super G. It was Weibrecht’s first Audi FIS Ski World Cup World Cup podium. It was a foggy, snowy day at Beaver […]
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By Megan Krigbaum, Food and Wine Newly anointed Master Sommelier Jack Mason believes fervently that the world’s greatest food and wine pairing is pizza and Champagne. As wine director at New York City’s Marta, Mason has created a stellar Champagne list to go with the restaurant’s cracker-thin, Roman-style pizzas. “Structurally, it just makes sense,” says […]
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By Ken Ritter, AP Governors from 19 Western states called Friday for expansion of a program that screens international travelers at airports abroad, in a bid to encourage tourism and stop terrorists before they arrive in the U.S. Montana Gov. Steve Bullock told the Western Governors’ Association in Las Vegas that expanding a U.S. government […]
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By Cathie Anderson, Sacramento Bee Up the hill at Placerville’s Snowline Hospice, employees know Marianne Rosenfeld as “The Ski Lady” because she picks up old skis that people donate to the nonprofit’s processing center and refashions them into chairs. Rosenfeld hauls the skis farther up the mountain to South Lake Tahoe where, at some point […]
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To the community, Every Friday for the last six years, Bread & Broth has been partnering with Lake Tahoe Community Presbyterian Church to feed the hungry through the Second Serving program. Second Serving meals consist of soup and a simple entrée such as pasta dishes, sloppy Joes and chili cheese dogs. They are served from […]
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