More than 400 people are expected to raise more than $30,000 at Walk MS: South Lake Tahoe on Sept. 16, which will take place at Camp Richardson. In 2016, nearly 300,000 people at more than 550 locations across the country walked to create a world free of MS, raising nearly $50 million. Since 1988, hundreds […]
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By Vicki Gonzalez, KCRA-TV UC Davis is using an underwater robot with the hopes of understanding how climate change is affecting Lake Tahoe. Tahoe Environmental Research Center deployed the autonomous underwater vehicle earlier this month. More commonly known as a glider, the autonomous vehicle will coast 150 meters under Lake Tahoe’s surface, going back-and-forth taking […]
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Washoe County sheriff’s detectives are trying to identify two people suspected of burglarizing a home in Incline Village on April 27. Sometime following the burglary the suspects attempted to use credit cards belonging to the victim at businesses in Crystal Bay and Reno. One suspect is described as an adult male, approximately 6-feet tall, 190-210 […]
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Expect lane closures on Highway 50 near Zephyr Cove as Nevada Department of Transportation officials deal with a sinkhole. The slow lane of westbound Highway 50 near Zephyr Cove Resort is currently closed after an approximately 3-foot hole appeared in the roadway on Aug. 11. Officials believe it may have been created by erosion of […]
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Nevada Highway Patrol is reminding drivers who use Sand Harbor Beach that stopping in the travel lanes is illegal as well as crossing over double yellow lines to pass other vehicles. Early mornings, especially on Saturdays and Sundays, there have been several reports along Highway 28 of traffic issues including backups, stopped vehicles waiting to […]
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· South Lake Tahoe Fire Chief Jeff Meston is now president-elect of the California Fire Chief’s Association. · Rafael Martinez has been hired as director of transportation for El Dorado County. · Bring the whole family to the Tahoe-Douglas fire station on Elks Point Road for the annual pancake feed on Sept. 2 from 8:30-11:30am. […]
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By Wayne Parry, AP Casinos are slowly embracing competitive video game tournaments as a way to help their bottom lines, but the money is coming from renting hotel rooms to the young players and selling them food and drinks, not from turning them into gamblers. Like most other ways gambling halls have tried to attract […]
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Former Alpine County Sheriff and Supervisor Stu Merrill died Aug. 1, 2017, at his home in Woodfords.. He was 94. Stuart was born to Grant Perry Merrill and Angie Tibbetts Merrill in Gardnerville in January 1923. He was raised in Woodfords, the third generation of the pioneer Merrill family. He spent his later grade school […]
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By Meghin Delaney Las Vegas Review-Journal Nevada is among the first states in the nation to have its new education plan approved by the federal government, the state Department of Education announced Wednesday. The state plan was a requirement under a new federal education law, the Every Student Succeeds Act. Nevada was one of 16 […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – Fireworks are out, lasers are in. A single event on one night has been traded for multiple activities on four days. Labor Day Lake Tahoe is being reinvented. Earlier this year the Tahoe Douglas Visitors Authority decided to scrap the annual fireworks show on the Sunday of Labor Day weekend. […]
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