· El Dorado County issued a warning saying travel on the Rubicon Trail is not advised the next few days because of the weather. · Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit, Heavenly Mountain Resort, Tahoe Regional Planning Agency and Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control Board were presented with a 2016 Regional Forester Honor award for their […]
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By Matt Stevens, Los Angeles Times When California water officials assess the drought, the first place they look is the northern Sierra Nevada mountains. Rain and snowmelt from the area feed into a complex system of rivers, canals and reservoirs that send water across the state. And by almost all measures, the drought picture in […]
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By USSA VAL GARDENA, Italy – Steven Nyman (Sundance, Utah) snagged the podium on his favorite Audi FIS Ski World Cup track, finishing in third in Val Gardena. Travis Ganong (Squaw Valley) and Bryce Bennett (Squaw Valley) nailed the top 10. It looked like Aksel Lund Svindal of Norway was going to take his first […]
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Lake Tahoe entities are the beneficiary of Nevada Commission on Tourism grants. The state agency this week awarded $504,230 in grants to rural Nevada tourism organizations for marketing efforts. NCOT awarded funding to 89 marketing projects designed to increase overnight stays, boost brand awareness and expand marketing programs for communities in rural Nevada. Grants are […]
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By Kathryn Reed El Dorado County is moving forward with plans to construct a roundabout at the intersection of Highway 50 and Pioneer Trail in Meyers. The county was just awarded a grant for $2,932,840 from the Federal Highway Administration’s Highway Safety Improvement Program. This was less than the requested amount of $3,450,400. “Right now we […]
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By Casey Beyer Four years ago this month, TRPA approved the 2012 Regional Plan. The landmark plan charts a course to restore Lake Tahoe’s environment and revitalize our communities and it was forged through Herculean work by California, Nevada, local governments, the public, and dozens of other partners. Many Tahoe Basin stakeholders once questioned if […]
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By Chelsea Harvey, Washington Post A report published Thursday as a special edition of the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society provides some of the best evidence yet that climate change already has a hand in our worst weather. It points to a variety of extreme weather events in 2015 that were likely influenced by global warming, […]
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Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the Dec. 9, 2016, New York Times. Nobody knows yet what Donald Trump is going to do to immigration enforcement. Only a month has passed since the election, and the president-elect is no different from the candidate: erratic, self-contradictory, hazy on principles and policies. But states and cities that […]
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Gunshots heard in Meyers this afternoon led officers to track down some guys from Stockton who were target shooting. “It wasn’t that far from houses,” El Dorado County sheriff’s Lt. Matt Underhill told Lake Tahoe News. The men were firing off rounds at the end of Lost Lane at about 4pm Dec. 16. Detectives are […]
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By Brad Branan, Sacramento Bee A Nevada City advocacy group has filed a legal challenge to Squaw Valley’s expansion plan, saying Placer County violated the California Environmental Quality Act by approving the development last month. County supervisors approved construction of hotels, condominiums and housing of up to 1,500 rooms, up to 300,000 square feet of […]
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