The eighth artist has been added to Harveys Outdoor Concert Series — Lenny Kravitz. He will be on the South Shore July 14 at 8pm. Tickets go on sale to the general public on March 24. They start at $54.59, plus taxes and fees. More shows will be forthcoming. Other performers coming this summer to […]
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· The Ta-Hoe Nalu Paddle Festival will be at Kings Beach on Aug. 12-13. · L.A.-based soul act Soul Scratch will be performing at Crystal Bay on April 8 at 10pm for free. · South Lake Tahoe residents Anthony and Mara Cavallaro have started Glazed and Confuzed Tahoe Donut, a doughnut delivery company. Check it out online. […]
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By Colton Lochhead, Las Vegas Review-Journal A series of kerfuffles involving politicians’ emails has sparked a nationwide call for elected officials to embrace transparency. But members of the Nevada Legislature show no intention of opening their records to the public. The Legislature tells governmental agencies statewide what is and is not a public record. But […]
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By Shelly Hagan, Bloomberg Your March Madness office pool is like the Charles Schwab of sports betting. Beyond those hastily chosen brackets, there’s an entire cottage industry of sports betting that’s increasingly resembling Wall Street. In 2016, total sports wagers in Nevada were $4.5 billion, according to the Nevada Gaming Control Board. With that much at stake, gamblers […]
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On the Truckee Planning Commission agenda next month will be the Martis Valley Quarry five-year review. The quarry was originally approved by Nevada County in 1983, with CEQA review. As part of the conditions of approval, Nevada County required that the mine operators return every five years. The mine operator, Teichert Aggregates, was initially reviewed […]
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By Ed Smith On March 27 at the Atlantis Casino in Reno, the Nevada Network of Fire Adapted Communities, aka The Network, will host its third annual conference. The Network is an organization dedicated to helping Nevada communities reduce their wildfire threat. They have selected “safe and effective evacuation” as this year’s conference theme. This […]
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By Kathryn Reed Lake Tahoe Unified School District is doing everything it can to help families who feel threatened by the federal government’s attack on immigrants. “We are going to follow the law. We all know if a child is going to come to school afraid, they aren’t going to learn,” board member Larry Reilly […]
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By Jay Famiglietti and Michelle Miro, Los Angeles Times Over the last 18 months, California has experienced one of the driest, wettest and wildest rides in its recorded water history. As the 2015-16 water year opened in October 2015, drought had driven the state’s reservoir and groundwater levels to all-time lows. Entire towns were […]
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South Tahoe High School will have a new principal next school year. On Tuesday night the Lake Tahoe Unified School District board of education accepted Chad Houck’s resignation. Houck has been in a tenuous position for about a year; ever since the school received a two-year probationary accreditation last spring. When the district learned last […]
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Tahoe Icemen, a Western States Hockey League Tier II ice hockey team out of South Lake Tahoe, will be playing in the playoffs starting March 16. It is a best out of three series beginning Thursday at 5pm at the South Lake Tahoe Ice Arena. The second game will be Friday at 5pm. If need […]
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