By Dale Kasler, Sacramento Bee Tech billionaire and real estate fanatic Larry Ellison might back away from a deal to buy Frank Sinatra’s old Lake Tahoe casino. Ellison’s $35.8 million purchase of the faded Cal Neva Resort & Casino has been tied up in court for more than a month, and the Oracle Corp. founder […]
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Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit is seeking comments on the Incline management plan project. The purpose of the project is to incorporate the land acquired in 2011 into the LTBMU Forest Plan and assign it to the appropriate management area. The purpose of this planning effort is also to plan project-specific activities to bring the […]
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By Kathryn Reed While a uniform strategy is working to bring more clarity to Lake Tahoe as a whole, that is not the case for the water closest to the shore. That is the conundrum scientists and regulating agencies are finding themselves in. There is no magic solution to clean up, so to speak, the […]
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By Bryan Armen Graham, Guardian The playing of the “Star-Spangled Banner” is so familiar and perfunctory a trapping of sporting events in the United States that few Americans even bothered to consider what it means and why it’s a tradition until last year when Colin Kaepernick chose to take a knee in protest of police […]
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By Emily Wortman-Wunder, High Country News For years, starry-eyed initiates to the West’s backcountry have packed along classics like John Muir’s “My First Summer in the Sierra,” Edward Abbey’s “Desert Solitaire,” and the journals of Lewis and Clark. These writers inspire us, open our eyes to the beauty and the fragility of the rugged West, […]
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· Tahoe Figure Skating Club’s holiday show will be Dec. 9 at 4pm at the South Lake Tahoe Ice Arena. Holiday Show. The show will feature skaters from around the Tahoe area. There will be public skating before and after. The show is free; public skating is at regular rates. · Truckee Fire is collecting […]
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By Ben Nuckols, AP WASHINGTON — In court, all four major U.S. sports leagues are fighting New Jersey’s challenge to the federal ban on sports gambling, which the Supreme Court will hear next month. Outside of court, leaders of three of the four leagues have made public comments that suggest they wouldn’t mind losing the […]
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By Larry Weitzman It’s been more than three years since my last visit with this third generation Tundra and my last review remarked how Toyota finally made the Tundra into a real “Cowboy Cadillac” with a ride smoother than a baby’s butt. This new Tundra feels even a bit smoother, perhaps a little less jiggly […]
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Brendan Madigan, owner of 38-year-old specialty retail shop Alpenglow Sports, has launched a podcast initiative featuring intimate conversations with iconic mountain personalities. Afterglow, a Mountain Storytelling Podcast, travels deep into the mind, heart and soul of world-renowned adventure athletes. The first season is a six-part series with weekly episodes that becomes available on Dec. 1 […]
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Now through Dec. 2 Douglas County sheriff’s deputies will be looking for motorists and occupants who are not buckled up while traveling. The department will be joining forces with Nevada Highway Patrol to watch for drivers and occupants in vehicles who are not wearing their seat belts and/or children who are not properly secured in […]
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