By Wil S. Hylton, New York Times Christina Brown pulled into the refugee camp after an eight-hour drive across the desert. It was late July of last year, and Brown was a 30-year-old immigration lawyer. She had spent a few years after college working on political campaigns, but her law degree was barely a year […]
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One bore of the Cave Rock tunnel will be closed Feb. 11 between 6:30am and 2pm so officials can stabilize the rocks. A rock slide on Saturday temporarily closed the road. Boulders, some 6-feet-wide, had to be removed. On Wednesday, the westbound lanes of Highway 50 will be closed. Traffic will alternate between using the […]
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Five 46-inch flat screen televisions were stolen from the Best Western Station House hotel in South Lake on early Saturday morning. Hotel workers believe the theft occurred Feb. 7 between 1 and 5:45am. They were taken from rooms that had not been rented. Police Lt. David Stevenson told Lake Tahoe News an employee noticed one […]
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Lake Tahoe South Shore Chamber of Commerce came into being in 2006. On Feb. 25 it is celebrating its 60 anniversary. (That was not a typo.) It was a 13-0 vote by the Tahoe Douglas Chamber of Commerce to merge with the South Lake Tahoe Chamber of Commerce. Three board members were absent and one […]
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• Olympian Jonny Moseley, who skied for Squaw Valley and lives in Marin County, is being inducted into the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame. • The Victory Highway Eagle Monument will be unveiled Feb. 13 at 3:30pm on the corner of Donner Pass Road and Spring Street in Truckee. • The Peelers, a cover […]
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By Gene Beley, Central Valley Business Times California’s already over-subscribed water supply could be in even worse shape in the years ahead because of devastating Sierra Nevada wildfires, some of which have been started by arson, say experts in mountain watersheds and their forests. The California Delta, heart of the state’s massive, multi-billion dollar water system, […]
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By Kristin J. Bender and Michelle Rindels, AP More than 200 residents of two communities ravaged by a wildfire along the eastern slope of the Sierra Nevada were allowed to return home Monday to an area that could see more wildfires as the state enters its fourth year of drought. People whose homes were not […]
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By Associated Press The California Highway Patrol says about a 3-mile stretch of old Highway 40 near the top of the Sierra Nevada between Truckee and the Sugar Bowl ski resort will remain closed for several days because of a big rock slide. CHP public information officer Pete Mann told the Associated Press on Monday […]
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According to the National Weather Service in Reno, the precipitation runoff since Friday has caused Lake Tahoe to rise 4.8 inches. Another way of looking at it is the last two storms added 16 billion gallons of water to the lake. While the storms that blew through the basin were at times warm and never […]
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By Kathryn Reed ECHO SUMMIT – It was a bit like a scavenger hunt, with everyone looking for pine cones, insects and animal tracks. Pine cones were in abundance, especially because the snow was lacking. Insects were hiding, which is a good thing because that’s what they should be doing in winter. The tracks were […]
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