What started as a controlled burn in Truckee on Monday caused some concern when it got out of control. Truckee firefighters along with U.S. Forest Service, Calfire, and Northstar Fire responded to a controlled burn that got away with the approaching winds. High winds threatened one structure after fanning the flames. No structures were lost […]
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By Kathryn Reed Two budgets in one year. That is essentially what South Lake Tahoe will have. While the City Council will go over the midyear budget a week from today, the reality is that what will be presented by staff is more like a brand new budget. This is because timing of events did […]
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San Francisco Giants on Opening Day — April 13, 2015 — at AT&T Park raise the 2014 World Series flag.
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To the community, Members of Heavenly Mountain Resort’s grooming crew volunteered at Heavenly’s Bread & Broth’s Adopt A Day dinner on April 6. Just like the snow they make into corduroy, the Heavenly grooming team was awesome. Representing Heavenly’s crew were Todd Rudis, manager; supervisors Lupe Barrientos and Kyle Henderson; and leads Tyler Lehman and […]
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By Scott Mayerowitz, AP Today’s traveler faces a bewildering choice of hotel brands with similar-sounding and confusing names. Want to stay at a Hyatt? Take your pick. There’s Hyatt Regency, Park Hyatt, Grand Hyatt, Hyatt House, Hyatt Place and, coming soon, Hyatt Centric. Vacationers once relied on big-name hotel brands to signal the kind of […]
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By Nicholas Bakalar, New York Times A new study suggests that early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy — although not necessarily wealthy or wise. Korean researchers recruited 1,620 men and women, ages 47 to 59, and administered a questionnaire to establish whether they were morning people or night owls. They […]
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By Yitka, Outdoor You’re hiking through a grove of spruce trees on the Pacific Crest Trail when you hear voices up ahead. Fifty yards away you spot a few pop-up tents and several dozen people hanging out, cheering. They offer you a cold soda and some chips and cookies. They’re hosting a trail running race, […]
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By Barbara Osborne, Sacramento Bee Bicyclists and pedestrians who have braved Truckee’s infamous “mouse hole” tunnel on Highway 89, the busy route between Interstate 80 and Tahoe City, soon will have safer passage. The 25-foot-wide, concrete arch beneath Union Pacific railroad tracks was constructed in 1928. It has no shoulders or space to accommodate more […]
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By Associated Press A Reno woman and her mother have lost an appeal after becoming the first people prosecuted in Nevada for interfering with the capture of troublesome bears at Lake Tahoe. Season Morrison and her mother, Cheryl Morrison, of Truckee, admitted they deliberately tripped a culvert bear trap state wildlife officials set in October […]
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• Lake Tahoe Historical Society will be putting on a Fireside Chat featuring Bill Kingman, who does the weekly Then and Now column for Lake Tahoe News, presenting a slideshow of Tahoe history at Camp Richardson Lodge on April 14 at 7pm. • Tahoe Transportation District’s top planner, Alfred Knotts, has left to be the […]
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