By Erika Cook and Angela Moniot Barton Health sponsors some of the area’s top athletes: Daron Rahlves, Marco Sullivan, Travis Ganong, Lila Lapanja, and now Ty Tremaine, world champion EnduroCross rider from Gardnerville. EnduroCross is a hybrid motorcycle competition combining supercross, trials, and enduro racing. Forty competitors blast around an indoor track, maneuvering hundreds of […]
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By Kathryn Reed OLYMPIC VALLEY – You know it’s not an ordinary ski day when long pants and jackets look out of place. Sometimes only a Speedo or bikini was covering certain parts. This is summer skiing. And it is very different than spring skiing – the atmosphere, the skier, the attitude, the conditions. From […]
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By Lindsay Pollard-Post There will be plenty of “oohs” and “aahs” during the July Fourth fireworks celebration in Costa Mesa this year. But there won’t be any bone-rattling booms and bangs. That’s because the city is putting on a silent fireworks display – and other cities should, too. Noisy fireworks aren’t fun for everyone. […]
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A couple and their 3-year-old daughter survived a personal watercraft accident Saturday afternoon near Timber Cove Marina. The man was driving when for unknown reasons the watercraft rolled, tossing all three into Lake Tahoe. They were all wearing life jackets. The girl and her dad were taken to Barton Memorial Hospital. It took a combination […]
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By Aaron Mendelson, KQED-TV Colorado and Washington saw vehicle searches by police officers fall dramatically after legalizing marijuana — a trend that could have implications in California, where voters legalized recreational pot last November. Researchers with Stanford University’s Open Policing Project found the trend buried in data on 130 million traffic stops by state patrol […]
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· Fireworks are not allowed anywhere on the Tahoe National Forest. · Effective July 3 CalFire is suspending all permits for outdoor residential burning within the state responsibility areas of Amador, El Dorado, Sacramento, and Alpine counties. · Nevada law enforcement officers will be increasing patrols for impaired drivers and riders between now and July 14. […]
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Tahoe Arts Project will be bringing the Missoula Children’s Theater back to Tahoe the week of July 10-14. Auditions for “Alice in Wonderland” will be July 10 at the South Tahoe Middle School multipurpose room from 10am-noon. Plan to stay for the full two hours. Some of the cast members will be asked to stay […]
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By Jenny Kane, Reno Gazette-Journal While it may not be your first time buying pot, it may be your first time doing so legally. As of today, recreational marijuana will be available in select dispensaries in Northern and Southern Nevada, and an expected green rush is expected to follow. While the Nevada Department of Taxation […]
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By Henry Brean, Las Vegas Review-Journal PAHRUMP — Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke didn’t stop at any national monuments during his first official visit to Nevada, but he promised to return for a tour of Gold Butte and Basin and Range before the end of July. During an event in Pahrump on Monday, Zinke said he […]
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Placer County is on a quest to improve traffic flow in the North Lake Tahoe region with a renewed focus on meeting those needs through improvements to public transit, and pedestrian and cycling paths. Supervisors this week updated the project list. Transportation infrastructure improvements throughout the county are partly funded through fees charged to developers, […]
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