“Gertrude’s Tahoe Adventures in Time” is a new children’s book about the natural history of Lake Tahoe. With colorful and dramatic illustrations the book tells the story of Gertrude, a Tahoe girl who meets a magic maiden who takes her on a fast motion adventure through the history of Lake Tahoe. They watch glaciers march, […]
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By Kathryn Reed WASHOE MEADOWS STATE PARK – Trudging through water or creating a side trail is no longer necessary in sections of Washoe Meadows State Park. Work was completed this month on about a mile of trail. Included is a rather major bridge over Angora Creek and smaller crossings to get people out of […]
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By Steve Urie In a recent op-ed released to regional news services (Lake Tahoe News, Nov. 20), Tahoe Regional Planning Agency Executive Director Joanne Marchetta wrote: “TRPA is taking partnership to the next level and is making ‘epic collaboration’ its central strategic goal.” She went on to say that the Compact between California and Nevada […]
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The U.S. Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit is accepting comments on a proposal to restore up to nine sections of the Truckee River near Tahoe City. he Forest Service, the Truckee River Watershed Council and Placer County are working together to address and repair erosion and degraded water quality caused by users accessing […]
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By Karin Carrasco, Moonshine Ink More than five years has passed since Tahoe and the skiing world lost the legendary Shane McConkey to a BASE jumping accident in the Italian Alps. Friends of McConkey recently made a trip to the bottom of the cliff to set up a permanent memorial for the fallen skier. On March […]
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By Rebecca Plevin, KPCC While much of the nation has been focused on Ebola recently, hundreds of Californians have been contracting another virus: West Nile. There have been 752 cases of West Nile Virus reported in California so far this year. That’s more than three times the average number of annual cases over the past […]
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Hard Rock Cafe Lake Tahoe in partnership with Apple Inc. co-founder and entrepreneur Steve Wozniak have created a limited-edition “Woz Rocks” pins in support Lake Tahoe Unified School District. Wozniak will reveal the pins Dec. 3 at 7pm at the restaurant inside Harveys at Stateline. He will be signing the pin or anything people bring to him, […]
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By Robin Marantz Henig, NPR Somehow we’re squeezing 16 people into our apartment for Thanksgiving this year, with relatives ranging in age from my 30-year-old nephew to my 90-year-old mother. I love them all, but in a way the one I know best is the middle-aged man across the table whose blue eyes look just […]
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South Lake Tahoe Police Department has plans for two roving DUI saturation patrols on Nov. 28 and Nov. 29. Sgt. Shannon Laney in a press release said, “A lot of folks think they know their own limits. They think that if they’re just a little ‘buzzed,’ then they’re still good to drive. Time and again, drivers […]
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By Thomas Peipert, AP In 2010, the price of walk-up, single-day lift ticket at Vail and Beaver Creek ski resorts topped $100. Aspen quickly followed suit, and ticket prices at resorts across the country have consistently increased in the years since. The trend has raised a question that has dogged the ski industry for years: […]
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