By Associated Press A former Douglas County sheriff’s deputy is among three Nevadans named as fugitive suspects in the armed takeover of a tribal casino in California last month. The U.S. Marshall’s office in Reno identified the Nevadans Tuesday as 38-year-old Brian Auchenbach of Gardnerville, 46-year-old Timothy Tofaute and 35-year-old David Dixon, both of Sparks. […]
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By Candace Taylor, Wall Street Journal A home on Lake Tahoe with more than 600 feet of sandy beach is seeking $34.5 million. The property was once owned by the family that founded Hills Bros. Coffee. In 1998, real-estate investors Carole and Robert McNeil purchased 5 acres for $10 million, and have since added to […]
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By Devon Jackson, Outside Imagine a food-playoff system wherein watercress, a decent if unremarkable little vegetable long overshadowed by broccoli, kale, carrots, and many other veggies, not only makes it to the Sweet 16 but comes out on top. Improbable? According to a new ranking put out by the Centers for Disease Control, watercress is […]
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By J.D. Morris, Las Vegas Sun Ultimate Gaming, one of Nevada’s three legal online poker providers, announced last week that it’s ending operations in the state. The move comes about two months after Ultimate Gaming withdrew from New Jersey. In a news release, the company referenced some of the online gaming industry’s overall struggles as reasons […]
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By Edward Wyatt, New York Times WASHINGTON — With a goal of fiber-optic lines reaching to every school and a Wi-Fi connection in every classroom, Tom Wheeler, chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, is expected on Monday to propose a 62 percent increase in the amount of money the agency spends annually to wire schools […]
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Headliners of this year’s SnowGlobe Music Festival include Skrillex, Zedd, Flume, Disclosure (DJ SET), and Porter Robinson. The event returns Dec. 29-31 to the ball field next to Lake Tahoe Community College for the fourth year. Also on the bill are Atmosphere, Phantogram, Flux Pavilion, Odesza, Emancipator Ensemble, Bro Safari, Justin Martin, Cherub, Thomas Jack, The […]
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Benjamin Hatchett from UNR’s Nevada State Climate Office will be speaking Dec. 4 at the Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences on the campus of Sierra Nevada College in Incline Village. Past climates in the region characterized by ice ages or droughts leave clues that are etched into the mountain slopes. These records remain today for people […]
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By Kathryn Reed Thinning the forest and controlled burns are never going away. Those were two of the messages that were delivered by fire officials last week during an open house at the Forest Supervisors office in South Lake Tahoe. The Tahoe Fire and Fuels Team has been created to put out a coordinated message […]
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To the community, Both Colleen and I are humbled and grateful for the encouragement we have received over the past year. Thank you to all the supporters of El Dorado County and voters in District 4. I couldn’t have done it without you. This race was never about Michael Ranalli. This election was about changing […]
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The Humane Society of Truckee-Tahoe is launching its first Giving Tuesday campaign this year. The agency is hoping to catch the attention and hearts of local animal lovers by putting Pickle in the spotlight. Weighing less than 5 pounds, Pickle was found abandoned in the middle of nowhere. Very fragile, suffering from an upper respiratory […]
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