By USSA ARE, Sweden — Ted Ligety (Park City ) slayed his way to second place in Are, Sweden, behind Marcel Hirscher from Austria, who collected his 25 career World Cup win, and ahead of Stefan Luitz of Germany. Tim Jitloff (Reno) grabbed more giant slalom World Cup points, finishing 22. The win moved Hirscher […]
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• South Lake Tahoe employees donated nonperishable food items and raised more than $200 for Christmas Cheer. • Here are the El Dorado-Tahoe and Sierra roadwork schedules for the week ahead from Caltrans. • BlueGo’s California routes 50 and 53 will be free from Dec. 20-Jan.4. • Following a full interior and exterior renovation, Cal Neva in […]
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By USSA ARE, Sweden — Tina Maza continued her quest for the overall Audi FIS Ski World Cup title with her third win in three disciplines this season, taking the giant slalom in Are on Dec. 12. Mikaela Shiffrin (Eagle-Vail, Colo.) placed 10 in the opening race of the weekend, originally scheduled for snow-starved Courchevel, France. […]
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Updated 7:50pm Heavenly Mountain Resort will be closed Saturday — the third consecutive day. “Due to a variety of complications from the storm, Heavenly will not open on Saturday. We expect to restore power to the mountain for operations on Sunday,” Sally Gunter told Lake Tahoe News. Wind forced the closure on Thursday, power was the problem Friday. […]
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By Phillip Reese, Sacramento Bee More California kindergartners are getting their vaccinations before starting school, curbing a decadelong trend of falling immunization rates, new state figures show. The shift comes as California experiences one of its worst whooping-cough outbreaks in generations. Health experts said several prior years of lax immunization primed the state for such […]
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A photograph hangs in our father’s home – Needham Grammar School, Lodi, California, class of 1944, 120 kids from a different time. Amazingly, dad could name a fair number of those classmates 70 years later. A teacher for 25 years, the ex-students of South Tahoe High School will remember having Mr. Campodonico for history or […]
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The Tahoe Douglas Fire Protection District, California State Parks, Nevada Division of Forestry and the U.S. Forest Service will continue prescribed fire operations near Sugar Pine Point State Park, Pioneer Trail and Washoan Boulevard, Ski Run Boulevard near Heavenly, Van Sickle Bi-State Park, Luther Pass, Spooner Summit, and Lake Tahoe Nevada State Park in Slaughterhouse […]
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Sierra-at-Tahoe opened today at noon. While the South Shore received only a dusting of snow out of this storm, the Echo Summit area ski resort received 15 inches overnight. Grandview and Easy Rider chairlifts are running, servicing seven runs. With the limited terrain, come discounted prices. — Lake Tahoe News staff report
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By Ana Ley and Amber Phillips, Las Vegas Sun When President Obama gave Astrid Silva a shout-out last month, he did more than put a face on his new immigration plan. He helped thrust Silva, and her home state of Nevada, into the national spotlight on immigration reform. She has since used her political fame to […]
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Fire investigators are still trying to figure out how a tree falling onto a Tahoe City house started a fire Thursday morning. “A tree fell through the house, hit the bed where someone was sleeping in the bed, moved the bed a few feet, and miraculously did not hurt anybody,” Dave Zaski with North Tahoe […]
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