The Amgen women’s bike race will impact parking on some South Shore streets. There will be no parking on the following streets between May 7 at 5pm and May 10: · Pioneer Trail from the intersection of Highway 50 in the Stateline area to the city limits by Black Bart Avenue; · Keller Road from […]
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The third rabid skunk of the year has been found in El Dorado County. This time it was in Pleasant Valley. An animal services officer was called April 24 by someone observing a skunk showing signs of rabies. Test results came back positive for rabies. The rabid skunk was found on Pleasant Valley Road near Grindstone Road […]
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An early morning fire displaced two South Lake Tahoe women. Smoke was billowing from the single-family residence on Stockton Avenue when firefighters arrived about 3am April 30. One woman was outside, uninjured, while the other was not home at the time. Two dogs died in the fire. “The living room had some significant damage. Everything […]
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Publisher’s note: This is one in a series of stories Lake Tahoe News will be running leading up to the 50th anniversary of South Lake Tahoe on Nov. 30. By Darcie Goodman Collins As the city of South Lake Tahoe turns 50 this year, I have been contemplating the League to Save Lake Tahoe’s relationship with […]
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By Rebecca Bryson I don’t know if you’ve felt it lately, but there is a lot of positive energy in Tahoe lately. Locals are saying “we want this” and then taking the steps to make it happen. It’s coming from the leadership, but even more important, it’s coming from the people who live here. We have achieved […]
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· Zephyr Cove Tennis Club’s season starts May 1. Membership is $80. Register online · Edgewood Tahoe gave $9,274 to the Tahoe Fund to help preserve Tahoe’s environment. The donation was a result of cash added to rounds of golf during the 2014 season by Edgewood Tahoe and its guests through a program called Green […]
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Seventeen people on the South Shore are accused of violating state construction laws. The Contractors State License Board in California and Nevada State Contractors Board conducted a simultaneous sting operation April 27. Seventeen individuals received citations for illegal contracting. Five unlicensed contractors were cited at a home near Pioneer Trail, while 12 were found at a Stateline condominium, including […]
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By Timothy Gardner, Reuters The West Coast could see power brownouts in coming months as hydro power stations struggle with the four-year drought, and in the longer term climate change could cause additional problems for power plants, the U.S. energy secretary said on Monday. “That is certainly a risk,” Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz told reporters […]
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Casinos on both ends of Lake Tahoe posted revenue from March that was well below 2014 numbers. Statewide the gains were also down. The Nevada Gaming Control Board on April 29 said casinos won $951.2 million last month. This is a drop of 3.2 percent from last year. South Shore casinos collected $13.9 million, a […]
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By Bill Theobald, USA Today WASHINGTON – Nevada is in the running for a federal geothermal research laboratory that could be located in Fallon, Sen. Harry Reid said Monday. The Energy Department announced grants to five western states, including Nevada, to develop research for a national lab, called the Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal […]
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