A 30-year-old Carson City man whose parents live in Meyers was killed in a car wreck on Luther Pass on Wednesday night. The name of the victim has not been released. He was driving a Ford F150 north on Highway 89 near Grass Lake at an unknown rate of speed when he drifted onto the […]
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By Lake Tahoe News What a difference a month makes. The snowpack just keeps getting deeper and that’s a good thing. “We’ve got a very good snowpack, a very robust snowpack on the ground right now,” Frank Gehrke said Thursday after taking a series of measurements in the field near the entrance to Sierra-at-Tahoe. He noted […]
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To the community, After heavy snows this January, Tahoe is experiencing a deep snowpack that has created dangerous overhanging snow on many buildings around the area. If you see large wind lips or cornices hanging off buildings, please stay clear from underneath as they pose a serious danger to life and property. A collapse of […]
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By Sean Rossman, USA Today Punxsutawney Phil made his famous weather prediction Thursday morning, emerging from his burrow to see his shadow. That means, according to Groundhog Day tradition, the U.S. will brave another six weeks of winter. The groundhog, emerging from a sleep, squealed as he was pulled from his burrow about 7:15am. He was hoisted into […]
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AARP’s Tax Aide Program offers free tax preparation assistance for individuals and families in the Lake Tahoe area. Assistance is available at the Family Resource Center of Truckee in Truckee and the North Tahoe Family Resource Center in Kings Beach. It is free to locals of all income levels and all ages, as long as your […]
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By Kathryn Reed A light is being shined on the lack of equality in Lake Tahoe Unified School District as officials work toward reopening Al Tahoe Elementary School. Declining enrollment forced the school to be closed in 2004. Now the remaining four elementary schools are overcrowded, necessitating some form of relief. On Jan. 31 the […]
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To the community, As stated in our institutional mission, this university recognizes and embraces the critical importance of diversity in preparing students for global citizenship and is committed to a culture of excellence, inclusion and accessibility. The Jan. 27 executive order regarding border security and immigration enforcement has raised concern among members of our university […]
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By Loretta Kalb, Sacramento Bee UC Davis no longer needs to dispose of thousands of gallons of wine that students produce each year, thanks to a state law clearing the way for nonprofit wine sales. A new California law, Senate Bill 683 by former Sen. Lois Wolk, D-Davis, authorizes the state Department of Alcoholic Beverage […]
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The National Weather Service in Reno has issued a winter storm warning from 1am Thursday to 4am Saturday for areas above 6,500 feet. Snow is expected to start Wednesday night, taper off midday Thursday and then gain intensity that night into Friday. Travel could be dicey with 4 feet of snow expected over the passes […]
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The 33-year owner of Kindertown day care, Maria Rose Barrows-Crist, died unexpectedly in her sleep Jan. 22, 2017. She was 64. She was born Jan. 18, 1952. She had retired last year from Bank of the West, where she worked on and off for more than 30 years. In that brief period she had been […]
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