By USSA KREISCHBERG, Austria — In a history-making FIS World Championship effort, 23-year-old Noah Wallace (Spokane) earned his first World Championship medal in slopestyle skiing —taking bronze. Wallace put down the third best run of the day, topping off a 82.40 run with a switch leftside double cork 1080 on the last hit. Competition favorite […]
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By Bill O’Driscoll, Reno Gazette-Journal Talk about liftoff. JetBlue Airways’ coming nonstop flights linking Reno and New York City promise to elevate not only the future of Reno-Tahoe International Airport but also the broader economy in northern Nevada. From filling hotel rooms to luring new business to the sheer prestige of “New York” and “nonstop” […]
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By Tony Barboza, Los Angeles Times California’s drought crept in slowly, but it could end with a torrent of winter storms that stream across the Pacific, dumping much of the year’s rain and snow in a few fast-moving and potentially catastrophic downpours. Powerful storms known as atmospheric rivers, ribbons of water vapor that extend for […]
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Benjamin and Lynette Hart of the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine will present information on breed-specific and gender-specific behavioral profiles of dogs most commonly chosen as companions in the mountains including golden Retrievers, Labrador retrievers, German shepherds, Rottweiler’s, boxers and chihuahuas. The program will begin at 6pm Feb. 19 at the Tahoe Center for […]
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By John M. Glionna, Los Angeles Times In a remote Nevada park, a team finds an abandoned Winchester rifle from 1882. Who left it there? There it was, abandoned for the ages, propped up against a juniper tree in far-eastern Nevada’s Snake Mountains, a Winchester Model 1873 repeating rifle: the gun, as legend goes, that […]
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By Carolyn Gregoire, Huffington Post What does animal hibernation have to do with Alzheimer’s? More than you might think. According to new research, the way that critters wake up from a long winter’s rest could help scientists devise new treatments for dementia. Research from Leicester University have isolated a cold-activated protein, RBM3, which helps restore […]
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A motorcyclist died Jan. 19 after colliding with another motorcyclist on the Geiger Grade. Nevada Highway Patrol officers said a Harley Davidson motorcycle ridden by 34-year-old Reno resident Trenton Michael Perry for reasons unknown crossed the center line and into the northbound lane. He collided with a 2014 black Harley Davidson motorcycle traveling north being ridden by […]
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A $25,000 award is being offered for information that results in the arrest of the person who shot at an El Dorado County sheriff’s Deputy on Oct. 17, 2014. At 8am that day a deputy working patrol found a truck in a turnout in the area of Cable Road and White Mountain Ranch Road. While walking down a […]
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South Lake Tahoe is looking for people to help with its 50th anniversary bash. There will be meeting Feb. 5 at 5:30pm at Lake Tahoe Airport. Volunteers are needed for: Open house committee Time capsule and treasure hunt event committee Float-homecoming committee Dinner event committee Invitation committee Book committee. For more info, contact Tracy Franklin at […]
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For the first time since 1998, South Lake Tahoe City Council members are receiving a raise. The five current members voted themselves a raise Jan. 20. The pay goes from $452 a month to $946. If they work 20 hours a week, this comes to less than $12 an hour. The state dictates how much […]
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