The North Lake Tahoe Ale Trail Campaign is the latest attraction for those looking for a watering hole at the end of the day. An interactive online map has been created. Participants will receive a free Tahoe Ale Trail sticker after they share a photo online with the hashtag #TahoeAleTrail. The tourism campaign is designed to highlight North […]
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· Fire Fest is Sept. 26 from 10am-3pm at Lake Tahoe Airport. The free event highlights fire and life safety for children and families. · El Dorado County Supervisor Shiva Frentzen is having two town hall meetings – Sept. 17 from 6-7:30pm at Cameron Park Fire Station No. 89 and Oct. 1 from 6:30-8pm at […]
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By Scott Smith, AP FRESNO — A vast and stubborn wildfire that has proven California’s biggest this year was expected to spew smoke through the long Labor Day weekend, leaving some campgrounds empty and prompting health warnings. This Rough Fire is the one that has sporadically brought smoke into the Lake Tahoe Basin. The fire […]
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Multimillionaire George C. Whittell Jr. built the Thunderbird Lodge in the 1930s. It stands 1.5 miles down the Nevada shoreline south of Sand Harbor State Park. Lake Tahoe water level is 3 feet below its natural rim of 6,223 feet, or about 6 feet below typical average. The water normally would be lapping at the deck […]
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By Kathryn Reed It’s about 12:30am Saturday and a distinct conversation can be heard coming from the back yard of the next street. It’s a group of about 10 who are up from the Bay Area partying. They are here for this long weekend. They are going home with a $270 citation for excessive noise […]
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By Joe Mathews Anchor me, baby. Because I find it impossible to write with restraint when politicians use babies to prey on prejudice and misinform the public in the service of winning votes. That’s the story of the Republican presidential contest, as Donald Trump and his opponents make xenophobic nonsense about “anchor babies” a top […]
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By Mark Armao, Wall Street Journal There are slightly more than three trillion trees in the world, a figure that dwarfs previous estimates, according to the most comprehensive census yet of global forestation. Using satellite imagery as well as ground-based measurements from around the world, a team led by researchers at Yale University created the […]
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Former Lake Tahoe resident Edward G. (Ed) Hartsinck died Aug. 29, 2015. He was 92. Mr. Hartsinck was born Nov. 21, 1922, in Albany and raised in Oakland. He died at his home in Angels Camp after a short illness. He and his wife, Sally, had retired to Incline Village in 1974. They moved to […]
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A six-member U.S. Forest Service trail crew has been busy reconstructing the Kingsbury Stinger Trail on lower Kingsbury Grade. The upgraded trail will remain open to off-highway vehicles 50-inches wide (or less) including all-terrain vehicles and motorcycles, and non-motorized recreation use such as mountain bikes, hikers and equestrians. The existing route is located in a sensitive […]
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By Scott Sonner, AP The minister of one of several churches hit by a string of vandalism on the North Shore of Lake Tahoe says they appear to be satanic attacks by an individual who is “very angry with Jesus.” “I’ve seen nothing that would give a hint it was socially or politically motivated,” said […]
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