The South Lake Tahoe Police Department has the following safety tips for the holiday season: Vehicle safety: Park your vehicle in a well-lighted area. Ensure all of your car doors are locked. Hide shopping bags and other valuables in the trunk or out of […]
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To the community, The United States Forest Service admits it has mismanaged our forests for the past 30 years. Now they are experimenting with massive daily burn projects, while concealing and refusing to discuss their serious impact on our health. The general public does not realize that the USFS no longer tries to extinguish wildfires, […]
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By Thomas Moore, Las Vegas Sun French tourists to Nevada seek the outdoors and cultural opportunities, while Chinese tourists are switching from group arrangements to independent travel. Travel tendencies of international tourists were among the discussion topics on the second day of the Governor’s Summit on Tourism at the Flamingo Las Vegas. Gov. Brian Sandoval […]
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· Lake Tahoe Community College’s women’s soccer team finished No. 10 in the nation in the final poll of the season. · Registration opens Jan. 16 for Tahoe Rim Trail Association’s youth backcountry camps. Three trips are available for youth ages 12-17 to discover Tahoe’s backcountry and learn valuable navigation skills, wilderness survival, leadership, and […]
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With the recent change in weather conditions, the North Lake Tahoe Fire Protection District will lift the seasonal fire restrictions on outdoor burning on Dec. 9. Permits for open burning of pine needles, slash pile, construction warming fires, and recreational fire pits are available for free at the district’s administration, 866 Oriole Way, Incline Village. […]
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The Lake Tahoe Backcountry Demo Event, North America’s largest venue for all things alpine touring, telemark, and splitboard, is back. Alpenglow Sports has again partnered with Alpine Meadows for this annual opportunity to try the best backcountry gear of the season. It will be Jan. 6, 9am to 3pm. Participating vendors will include DPS, Black […]
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By Kathryn Reed Those tasked with managing water in Olympic Valley, in particular Squaw Creek and the surrounding aquifer, are taking a more methodical approach to studying trends and potential impacts. The Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board is one of the regulators of this body of water between Tahoe City and Truckee and had […]
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By Sallie Krawcheck, New York Times My first job out of college in the late 1980s was at Salomon Brothers, a trading house of cigar-smoking, expletive-spewing strivers. One day, I leaned over a colleague’s desk to work on a spreadsheet, and heard loud laughter from behind me; one of the guys was pretending to perform […]
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By Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle With a five-year drought and then a winter of floods having exposed the limits of California’s vast network of reservoirs, dams and canals, voters are likely to have the chance next year to decide whether to pay for major upgrades to the state’s waterworks. Two multibillion-dollar bonds are expected […]
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By Jessie Bekker Las Vegas Review-Journal Deanna Goble leaves the holiday decorating to the professionals every year. “None of us want to climb up this ladder and go around, for one. Two, we don’t really know how,” said Goble, a long-time Las Vegas resident. But when she forgot to ask them to wrap baby palm trees […]
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