Kings Beach residents can expect to be in the dark for the better part of the night. Liberty Utilities says the outage is because of an NV Energy equipment failure in Incline Village. It could be at least 11pm Nov. 9 before power is restored. It’s been out since before 4pm. — Lake Tahoe News […]
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Burton Learn to Ride, Boys & Girls Club of North Lake Tahoe and Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows spent part of Wednesday teaching youngsters how to snowboard — indoors. Snowboarding instruction came via video from Olympic halfpipe snowboarding champion Kelly Clark, Burton’s Jeff Boliba and instructors from the resorts. The program, called Burton Riglet PE Snowboarding, […]
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By Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazette-Journal Nevada officials have terminated a privately-funded agreement that’s kept hundreds of free-range horses from western Nevada’s Virginia Range without resorting to slaughter. The agreement provided a framework for state officials to work with a nonprofit to control the horse population through capture, adoption and birth control drugs. Controlling the […]
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South Lake Tahoe Police Department is warning potential vacation home renters of an ongoing scam on Craigslist. These listings may include pictures and a lengthy description of a real house. Unsuspecting vacationers are paying in advance, usually by check or Western Union wire. The supposed landlord takes receipt of the money and when the victim […]
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Sierra-at-Tahoe’s Pray for Snow Party on Nov. 18 will be a dance fest of sorts. Due to noise curfews the music will be pumped through distributed wireless headphones instead of the speakers. Extra emphasis will be put on the snow dance this year. The free silent disco and movie night will go from 5-10pm at […]
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By Mike Householder, AP ANN ARBOR, Mich. — A rare bird has landed at the University of Michigan: a two-legged robot named Cassie that researchers hope could be the forerunner of a machine that one day will aid search-and-rescue efforts. Cassie — whose name is derived from the cassowary, a flightless bird similar to an […]
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With the changing seasons, it’s time to think about how you are going to attract customers to your business this winter. Online news sites — Lake Tahoe News included — are continuing to attract more readers, while print readership declines. Your business needs to be advertising where your customers are. Lake Tahoe News is being […]
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· Tahoe Writers Works, Tahoe’s longest-running writing group, meets every other Tuesday at Bona Fide HQ in Meyers. The next meeting is Nov. 21. For more info, go online. · California’s average per gallon price of gasoline reached $3.21 on Nov. 6. This is 12 cents higher than in Hawaii, which previously had the priciest […]
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By Matt Weiser, Water Deeply Most Americans may not realize it, but we really don’t know with a lot of accuracy how much snow there is sitting in the mountains during winter. We also don’t always have a precise picture of where the snow level is when a storm moves in, or how much will […]
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By Marco Huerta Signing up for a health insurance plan can be daunting and time consuming. As a certified enrollment counselor, my job is to make it easier for South Lake Tahoe families and individuals to navigate Covered California and enroll in a health care plan. With all the talk the about health care, I […]
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