· UCCE Master Gardeners of Lake Tahoe is having a fall plant sale at Sierra House Elementary School on Sept. 9 from 9am-noon. · The Douglas County library in Minden will be closed Sept. 4. · According to the Reno Gazette-Journal, “If we took all of the snowmelt and rain that enters Lake Tahoe each […]
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This fall the FBI Sacramento field office will offer high school juniors who attend school within the 34 counties the office serves to gain insight into the 109-year-old law enforcement agency at its FBI Teen Academy. The class will be Nov. 17 at the field office headquarters in Roseville. The one-day academy offers students a […]
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By Gary Martin, Las Vegas Review-Journal WASHINGTON — Democrats are charging the Trump administration of using a politically driven process to undermine protections to public lands as environmental groups gird for a legal battle to stop the shrinking of national monuments under review — including two in Nevada. Gold Butte National Monument and Basin […]
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Updated 4:05pm: The Slinkard Fire is estimated to have burned 6,241 acres, with zero percent containment as of Thursday afternoon. The fire has burned to Highway 395 and crossed Highway 89 to the north. The power outage in the Coleville-Topaz-Walker area due to fire burning poles and wire. Approximately 30 customers had power restored along […]
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Members of South Lake Tahoe’s American Legion Post 795 and the Ladies Auxiliary are hosting a commemorative ceremony to honor the victims and first responders of Sept. 11, 2001. The ceremony will take place at 11am on Sept. 11 at the American Legion Hall, 2748 Lake Tahoe Blvd., South Lake Tahoe. Refreshments will be served. […]
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The 32nd Lake Tahoe Autumn Food and Wine Festival will be at Northstar on Sept. 8-10. There will be more than 19 unique festival events, from yoga and wine tasting to outdoor movies to hands-on cooking demonstrations with celebrity chefs. Sessions can be experienced in a la carte fashion or go all three days. For details […]
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By Kathryn Reed No one ever said they wanted to grow up to be a homeless person. And, yet, today a growing number of people are finding themselves without a traditional roof over their heads. Twenty-six percent of the people who stayed in South Lake Tahoe’s warm room last winter were employed. Eighty-seven percent of […]
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By Duane Whitelaw The North Tahoe Public Utility District (NTPUD) has owned and operated the North Tahoe Event Center in Kings Beach since the early 1980s. In the late ’80s the facility was renovated with Placer County transient occupancy tax (TOT) funds emphasizing conference groups coming to the region and putting “heads on beds.” Over […]
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A South Lake Tahoe attorney was arrested Aug. 30 on child porn charges. Robert Huckaby, 65, faces one felony count of child pornography and a misdemeanor of molesting or annoying a child under the age of 18. According to the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office, on July 28 a search warrant was served and images […]
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By Cathie Anderson, Sacramento Bee Citrus Heights resident Curtis Fry, whose son contracted hantavirus at Bodie State Historic Park, said the California Department of Parks and Recreation is putting employees at risk by failing to provide adequate training or housing at the popular Mono County ghost town. “It’s just the Wild West out there,” Fry […]
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