By Jamie Biesiada, Travel Weekly From a projected increase in Americans traveling this Memorial Day weekend to a steady growth in air travel, all signs are pointing to a very healthy industry, one of the most robust that some executives say they have seen. “If I look at this historically, I think we are currently […]
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Th Boat Owners Association of the United States has issued its 2017 Top 10 Boat Names. The names come from tallying up requests for boat names to the BoatUS Graphics service. Top 10 Boat Names: Serenity: The utter calm and quietude boating brings Seas the Day: A nautical wordplay on the Latin saying “Carpe diem,” […]
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To the community, Adventure Mountain owners Jim and Linda Mueller are longtime and enthusiastic supporters of Bread & Broth’s Monday meal. “Bread & Broth is a great organization serving delicious meals to the South Lake Tahoe community,” commented Jim Mueller. “Adventure Mountain and our family always enjoys helping out such a great organization and getting […]
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Three girls’ swim teams from the Tahoe-Truckee area finished in the top seven at the Division 3A state championships in Carson City over the weekend. Boulder City High School dominated the competition, tallying 214.50 points. In second was Truckee High School with 75 points, Incline High School was sixth with 33 points, and South Tahoe […]
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Cleo is a 7-year-old gray tabby with medium length hair. She has lived with other cats and has been around dogs. Cleo came to the shelter with another cat when their owner became homeless, and is a very pretty, sweet girl. Cleo is spayed, microchipped, tested for FIV, and vaccinated. She is at the El […]
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By Kathryn Reed Memorial Day weekend is usually the start of summer for most of the country. For Lake Tahoe, it’s really the end of winter. This coming weekend won’t be any different. While the forecast is for sunny skies and highs in the mid- to high 60s, the remnants of winter will likely be […]
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By Foon Rhee, Sacramento Bee Since the year 2000, rents have risen and so has the number of people needing affordable housing. That double whammy means that even while building more housing, many places are failing to keep pace, according to a new study by the Urban Institute. In its color-coded map, there’s only […]
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By Cass Buggé, Outside In May 1955, when 67-year-old great-grandmother Emma Gatewood told her children that she was “going for a hike in the woods,” she left out a few important details. Like the fact that she was heading 470 miles from her Ohio hometown to Mount Oglethorpe, Georgia, writes reporter Ben Montgomery in his […]
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By Lake Tahoe News The El Dorado Hills Community Services District has filed a lawsuit against El Dorado County Auditor Joe Harn because he did not disburse $415,000 in development impact fees. “Unfortunately, respondent Harn has refused to comply with, and continues to refuse to comply with, the county’s clear mandatory directive,” the suit says. Through […]
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By Colton Lochhead, Las Vegas Review-Journal Two members of Nevada’s congressional delegation signed onto cannabis-related legislation last week in a push to legitimize the emerging marijuana industry at the federal level. U.S. Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto and Rep. Dina Titus, both Democrats, co-sponsored bills that would remove federal restrictions that the marijuana industry says hamstring […]
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