To the community, Partnering with Bread & Broth at their June 6 dinner, Heavenly Mountain Resort was the Adopt A Day sponsor for the evening’s meal. Thanks to Heavenly’s $250 donation and the help of the outstanding sponsor crew from Heavenly’s marketing team, B&B prepared and served a much needed meal to folks who struggle […]
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Ed Viesturs, the only American to have summited all of the world’s 14 8,000-meter peaks without supplemental oxygen, will be giving a talk June 20 in Incline Village. He is now a best-selling author, having written four books. Viesturs was the key figure in the IMAX “Everest Expedition” documentary. He’s summited Everest seven times and was […]
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By Mark Glover, Sacramento Bee Calstar, the regional air ambulance service, and Santa Rosa’s Reach Air Medical Services announced Thursday that they are entering into a merger agreement that will create the largest network of air ambulance bases in California. Officials said the agreement will position Calstar within the same holding company as Reach. In […]
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By Mark Glover, Sacramento Bee West Sacramento-based Raley’s is continuing its growth spurt. The grocer, which had not announced a new store in six years at this time last year, on Friday announced its fifth new project in the past 10 months. Raley’s said it will build a 35,000-square-foot supermarket at the corner of Highway […]
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Nevada State Parks is putting on two ranger-led tours in the backcountry of Lake Tahoe Nevada State Park. Participants will follow the remnants of the old Virginia Gold Hill Water Company flumes and inverted siphon. Originally built in 1873, the VGHWC brought much needed water from the Sierra to the Comstock. The tour will start […]
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By Kathryn Reed Driving into Stateline from the east there isn’t anything to go “wow” about – at least not in a positive sense. Lakeside Inn wants to change that. “We are the gateway from the Nevada side to South Lake Tahoe. Right now the welcome to South Lake Tahoe is not a pretty sight,” […]
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By Melissa Batchelor Warnke, Los Angeles Times Three years ago, Mark Carson was walking with a friend in Greenwich Village, the Manhattan neighborhood that birthed the contemporary LGBT movement. It was a Friday night in early spring; they wore cut-off shorts and cowboy boots. When they turned a corner onto West 8th Street, a group of men […]
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By Marissa Lang, San Francisco Chronicle Long hours at multiple jobs may soon become the norm for American workers, but they may be happier that way. In a survey aimed at identifying trends shaping the “future of work,” Adobe asked more than 2,000 office workers from the U.S., Britain and India a series of questions […]
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By Associated Press The parents of a UNR football player from Honolulu who is presumed to have drowned in Lake Tahoe say their son died trying to save others. Rescue crews called off their search for Marc Ma on Monday, but officials say efforts to recover his body will continue. Ma, 20, had been on […]
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By J.D. Morris, Las Vegas Sun The casino industry’s chief lobbying voice in Washington, D.C., sees an opportunity in reports this week that the NHL is ready to grant an expansion team to Las Vegas. For Geoff Freeman, president of the American Gaming Association, a major league hockey franchise in Las Vegas will offer further […]
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