By Alexei Koseff and Taryn Luna, Sacramento Bee A multi-bill package aimed at addressing California’s housing affordability crisis headed to Gov. Jerry Brown Friday as lawmakers prepared to draw the curtain on the 2017 legislative year. Legislative leaders had previously reached agreement with Gov. Jerry Brown over measures to generate money for low-income housing development, […]
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During the 2017 boating season, Tahoe RCD watercraft inspectors performed more than 7,600 inspections. In total, more than 15,000 vessels launched at Lake Tahoe, including newly inspected vessels and those with intact Tahoe-issued inspection seals. This year more than 30 of the inspected watercraft were harboring aquatic invasive plants, mussels or snails. With our efficient […]
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Homewood Mountain Resort will host a night of ski movie premieres on Oct. 5 at the North Lodge, with doors opening at 6pm. The opening film will be “Room for Improvement” by local film company Janky Films. Featuring local skiers and snowboarders riding resort and backcountry in California. The film also includes a segment from […]
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By Louis Sahagun, Los Angeles Times Conservation groups, aiming to end California’s dwindling fur trade, filed a lawsuit Wednesday that would force state wildlife authorities to raise license fees to levels required by law to cover the full costs of regulating the trapping, killing and skinning of wild animals. That would drive the fees […]
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The Incline Village Championship Golf Course has retained its designation as a certified Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary through the Audubon Cooperative Sanctuary Program for Golf Courses, an Audubon International program. Participation is designed to help course personnel plan, organize, implement, and document a comprehensive environmental management program and receive recognition for their efforts. To reach certification, […]
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Lake Tahoe is going from cool to cold. While the calendar says fall will arrive next week, the forecast is more like winter. “Most of next week will be on the cool side, and there is a chance for showers and some mountain snow during the second half of the week,” the National Weather Service […]
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By Kayla Anderson, Tahoe Weekly Matchstick Productions new film “Drop Everything” to be released today is set to be one of the most action-packed and funny ski flicks of the year — not to mention full of incredible skiing. “Drop Everything” has many layers of meaning to its name. Written, directed and edited by […]
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By Kathryn Reed Every decision made at Lake Tahoe Community College is done so with the same common denominator – students. There was a time when the philosophy in higher education was that students had the right to fail. After all, they are adults and can make decisions that may not allow them to succeed. […]
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By Elizabeth Miller, Backpacker Jonathan Asher didn’t know much about the Land and Water Conservation Fund when he started working for the Wilderness Society, where he’s a senior representative for government relations. But when he scrolled through the list of projects that it had paid for, he found that it touched his life from end […]
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By Rob Nikolewski, Los Angeles Times Which way is the wind blowing in California? In some respects, wind energy in the state has never been better, but by other measurements growth has hit a lull for the past four years. The U.S. Department of Energy released its annual report analyzing technologies and markets for […]
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