By Sage Sauerbrey, Moonshine Ink Most people think of 10,000 feet as the altitude they can pretend to turn their electronics back on at during a long flight, but for professional athletes Josh Daiek and Abe Greenspan, it’s a full day in the Tahoe backcountry and the second installment of their “Tahoe Ten” series. In […]
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By Richard N. Velotta, Las Vegas Review-Journal What’s the best way to lure prospective adventure-seekers to Nevada? Is it an image of a park ranger and the mantra “when other states restrict, we allow”? Or is it a campaign featuring a man with a beard, images of all-terrain vehicles and a message of “we go […]
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Updated 10:07pm: Power is off for thousands of people in the Lake Tahoe Basin and Carson Valley areas. “Road closures from flooding are hampering our crews’ efforts to get to the remaining outages in the Carson/Genoa/Gardnerville area,” NV Energy says on its website. In the Kingsbury Grade area of Stateline there are four outages affecting […]
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By Linda Fine Conaboy RENO – To some, the latest chapters in U.S. political history read like a catchy novel; to others, current changes are merely pulp fiction. These are attention-grabbing times no matter how one views the unfolding daily drama floating over the political landscape. In a conversation on Feb. 8 sponsored by the […]
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By Rebecca Bryson At the last Lake Tahoe Unified School District board meeting, board members pondered the question of whether to reopen Al Tahoe Elementary School and if so to what purpose. The proposal on the table was to reopen it as a STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics) center and theme school. As […]
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By Marcia Dunn, AP Hope for clear skies. A full moon and comet share double billing in a special night sky show this weekend. A lunar eclipse starts everything off Friday night. The moon will pass into Earth’s outer shadow, or penumbra. The moon won’t be blacked out like in a full eclipse. Only part […]
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Unity at the Lake’s days are numbered at the South Lake Tahoe owned building on Rufus Allen Boulevard. The lease goes through Jan. 31, 2018. The city wants the building back to be able to use it on a temporary basis for recreation while the new permanent facility is built. When the church signed the […]
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El Dorado County Supervisor Sue Novasel is hosting a meeting Feb. 13 to discuss tourist traffic congestion. There is a growing concern from neighborhood residents regarding online map applications that redirect travelers off the main roads and highways, and onto local roads and into neighborhoods. Representatives from the El Dorado County Sheriff’s Office and California Highway […]
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By Sandra Chereb, Las Vegas Review-Journal CARSON CITY — State Sen. James Settelmeyer introduced a bill Tuesday seeking to open Nevada primaries to all candidates and voters, not just those registered as Republican or Democrat. Senate Bill 103 is a do-over of sorts of a bill the Minden Republican brought in 2015 to create open […]
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Two shows have been added to the Harveys Outdoor Concert Series — Jack Johnson and Rebelution. For the first time since 2014, Johnson is hitting the road. He will be in Tahoe on July 28. Tickets go on sale Feb. 17. Fans who purchase a ticket will receive a download of Johnson’s new song, “Fragments,” […]
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