By Richard N. Velotta, Las Vegas Review-Journal Nevada casino customers inched closer Thursday to being able to sign up for and fund a wagering account that could be used to gamble at slot machines, table games and bingo parlors. The concept of using wagering accounts is already in play for sports betting, mobile wagering and […]
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Roger Rosenberger, wildflower photographer extraordinaire, returns to share the current season of wildflowers in vivid photographs and impart advise on how to take breathtaking images. Joining Rosenberger will be Julie Carville, launching her newest book, “Tahoe’s Spectacular Wildflower Trails”. This book will guide people along Tahoe’s trails and deeply into the wonders and stories of […]
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By Melinda Myers As summer fades into fall it is time to help lawns recover from summer stress and prepare for the winter ahead. Continue to mow your lawn as long as it continues to grow. Grow cool season grasses like bluegrass, fescue and ryegrass 2-1/2 to 3-1/2 inches tall. Warm season grasses like bermudagrass, […]
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Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the Aug. 4, 2016, Sacramento Bee. As a young reporter, Mark Twain visited Lake Tahoe. Its clear, cobalt blue water so entranced him that he wrote of it later, in “The Innocents Abroad.” “I have fished for trout, in Tahoe,” Twain wrote, “and at a measured depth of […]
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By Kathryn Reed KINGS BEACH – On eight 4-2 votes, the Placer County Planning Commission on Thursday approved several items pertaining to the future of Squaw Valley. KSL, which has owned Squaw since 2010, wants do what former Squaw Valley Village owner Intrawest did not do; complete the four-phase project. But this would be on […]
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By Katie Vane, High Country News The Zapata Ranch in southern Colorado is one of the few places that bison can still roam freely. Until recently, scientists and volunteers surveyed the herd the old-fashioned way: with binoculars and the naked eye. “It’s a shock how you can lose track of 2,000 bison on a 45,000-acre […]
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The South Lake Tahoe Library will host Bohart Museum of Entomology on Aug. 12. The free outdoor show starts at 2pm at 1000 Rufus Allen Blvd.. in South Lake Tahoe. UC Davis’ Bohart Museum of Entomology will be showing various insect specimens, as well as live animals.
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By Cassie Wilson, KRNV-TV Dry weather is common in Northern Nevada; we are of course a high desert. But as of Aug. 10, the Reno-Tahoe Airport officially hit a 79-day dry spell. In the last 10 years, the longest dry pattern we’ve seen was 92 days in the summer of 2011. And the current dry […]
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By Scott Sonner, AP RENO – The Transportation Security Administration says screening agents confiscated a plastic handgun produced with a 3-D printer from a man’s carry-on luggage last week at Reno-Tahoe International Airport. TSA spokeswoman Lorie Dankers said Wednesday it’s not known if the plastic firearm would work, but it had five .22-caliber bullets with […]
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A Portland man sustained major injuries when the motorcycle he was riding collided with a deer in Hope Valley on Aug. 10. Rudolf Jung, 32, was going south on Highway 89 near Picketts Junction when a deer ran out from the west side of the road. Jung was unable to avoid striking the animal. The […]
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