The Tahoe Douglas Visitor’s Authority and Tahoe Regional Planning Agency are seeking scoping comments on the proposed Tahoe South Events Center in Stateline. The events center would be a publicly-owned assembly, event, and entertainment venue located on Highway 50 where the current parking lot of MontBleu is. Edgewood Companies owns the parcels it would be […]
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TOCCATA — Tahoe Symphony Orchestra & Chorus — lost a singer in November. Phil Stevenson was a founding member of TOCCATA. He accompanied the group on the 2015 and 2017 concert tours to Italy and Austria. The Jan. 7 kick off performance to the 13th season will be to celebrate his memory. All donations to […]
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· At the annual USTA Northern California awards banquet in February the most outstanding senior tournament will be awarded to Tahoe Donner 7th annual Senior Tournament and the most outstanding NTRP tournament will go to Tahoe Donner Ninth annual NTRP Tournament. Adult tournament director of the year is Ian Mindell of Truckee. · Diane Dealey Neill, […]
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By Kathryn Reed Lukins Brothers water customers are likely to have higher water bills in order to deal with contaminants in the groundwater that the company had nothing to do with. If only it were as easy to get rid of the “stain” on South Lake Tahoe’s groundwater as it is to dry clean a […]
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By Aaron Gulley, Outside The impact was as sudden and unexpected as lightning on a cloudless afternoon. One moment I was pedaling on a side road to my house after wrapping up a trail ride. The next I was 20 feet off the road on my back, tangled beneath my mountain bike in a stand of […]
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A car chase that started in Carson City on Thursday night ended in South Lake Tahoe with a foot chase. James Thomas Cook, 35, was driving a stolen vehicle from the Bay Area. He faces five charges, including driving under the influence, vehicle theft and evading a police officer. Bail was set at $90,500. Nevada […]
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By Justin Cheng, Cristian Danescu-Niculescu-Mizil, Jure Leskovec and Michael Bernstein, The Conversation “Fail at life. Go bomb yourself.” Comments like this one, found on a CNN article about how women perceive themselves, are prevalent today across the internet, whether it’s Facebook, Reddit or a news website. Such behavior can range from profanity and name-calling to […]
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By Jessie Bekker Las Vegas Review-Journal It’s been only four days since Nevada’s new opioid prescription law took effect, and doctors already are venting about its impact on their practices. About 40 physicians, lawyers and others attended a meeting of the state medical and dental boards Wednesday in Las Vegas to express concerns over draft […]
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By Colton Lochhead, Las Vegas Review-Journal Nevada’s thousands of marijuana employees and millions of dollars in pot tax revenue could be in jeopardy with the rescinding of a federal memo seen as the sole protector for state-regulated pot markets. The Obama-era policy called the Cole Memo had paved the way for legalized marijuana to flourish […]
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By Johnathan J. Cooper, AP California’s top insurance regulator said Thursday that insurers are increasingly refusing to offer homeowner’s policies in areas prone to wildfire — a problem that’s likely to get worse as companies respond to last year’s devastating blazes. Insurers in 2016 refused to renew more than 10,000 policies in the 24 counties […]
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