By James DeHaven, Reno Gazette-Journal Nevadans who haven’t kept up with the state’s upcoming elections, take heart — the rest of the country is paying plenty of attention for you. Three months before party primary voters decide which candidates will appear on November’s general election ballot, money and media attention has poured into races for […]
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By Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazette-Journal Emergency management officials are warning Lake Tahoe residents to avoid activity in some neighborhoods because of the potential for an avalanche. On Friday Washoe County issued a Stage 1 Avalanche Warning for the Crystal Bay and Third Creek subdivisions. “Storm and wind slab avalanches are likely, especially human triggered, […]
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By Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazette-Journal An avalanche swept up five people, including one who was seriously injured, at a Lake Tahoe-area ski resort on Friday. The avalanche happened at 1:40 p.m. at Squaw Valley Resort, less than five hours after searchers recovered the body of a snowboarder who had gone missing late Thursday during a […]
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· The League to Save Lake Tahoe is having a volunteer training and appreciation on April 4 from 5:30-8:30pm at its South Lake Tahoe office. · The Meeks Bay bike trail construction contract was awarded to Minden-based Herback General Engineering in the amount of $3,663,312.68. The project is scheduled to be completed this fall. It’s […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – One more vote and the Meyers Area Plan will be the law of the land, replacing the planning document from 1993. The process to develop this plan started in February 2012. In these six years there have been a multitude of meetings, angry words levied between residents, at El Dorado […]
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Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the Feb. 26, 2018, Las Vegas Sun. Looking at one part of President Trump’s budget, you might think his administration is riding to the rescue of the National Park Service. But a broader view of the overall budget reveals something very different. The administration’s plans for our national parks […]
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By Paula Span, New York Times On a Sunday evening a few weeks back, Shobana Ram was loading the dishwasher in her kitchen in Queens when her 85-year-old father-in-law rose from the dinner table, carrying his cane in one hand and an empty plate in the other. “From the corner of my eye, I saw […]
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By Katie Roof, Tech Crunch Skiers, rejoice! It just got a lot easier to track your mountain treks. Due to an Apple watch update that combines GPS and altimeter (altitude) measuring, ski apps are now able to quantify performance. If you’re wondering how many calories you’ve burned or how fast you were going, all that […]
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Tahoe Donner and the North Lake Tahoe community on March 10 will celebrate the return of local Alpine Ski Team member Mark Engel from the 2018 Winter Games. Engel, 26, grew up in Truckee and made his Olympic debut competing in men’s slalom in PyeongChang. The party begins at 3p, on the Sun Deck at […]
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By Matt Weiser, Water Deeply A skier threads his way through patches of dry ground at California’s Squaw Valley Ski Resort on March 21, 2015, when the state experienced one of its driest winters ever. A new forecasting tool could one day be able to predict such poor mountain snowpack conditions as much as […]
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