By USSA OFTERSCHWANG, Germany — Torino Olympic gold medalist Julia Mancuso of Squaw Valley was ninth and Lindsey Vonn of Vail 10th Friday at an Audi FIS Alpine World Cup giant slalom held on incredibly soft snow conditions in bluebird southern Bavaria. Temperatures soared into the high 40s as local Viktoria Rebensburg clocked the wire-to-wire […]
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The South Lake Tahoe library is hosting a Thomas the Tank Engine Party on March 10 at 2pm. Celebrate Thomas with games, crafts, stories and other fun. The library is at 1000 Rufus Allen Blvd. For more information, call (530) 573.3185.
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South Lake Tahoe officials will be meeting with residents and business owners in the neighborhoods of South Y Industrial, Bonanza, Barton, airport and Winnemucca on March 20. The 6pm meeting is in the City Council Chambers located at 1901 Airport Road. South Lake Tahoe is broken into 20 neighborhoods. They have been combined into six […]
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A 29-year-old Olympic Valley man caught in an avalanche Thursday near Alpine Meadows has died from his injuries at Tahoe Forest Hospital in Truckee. Benjamin Brackett was skiing with two friends March 1 when they triggered the slide. They were climbing with skins on their skis about 500 vertical feet below Stanford Rock when the […]
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By Kathryn Reed Anti-parking meter advocates have won. At least for now. “I don’t think parking is off the table, but it is off the table for the moment,” South Lake Tahoe Mayor Claire Fortier told Lake Tahoe News. The City Council was expected to vote on the issue March 6. Now it won’t be […]
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By Mandy Kendall It seems that our unusually mild winter may have had at least one benefit, in the guise of a late flu season. Officials for the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention announced last Friday that the number of flu cases reported had just reached the tipping point used to declare the […]
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• Lake Tahoe is the No. 3 spot to travel for spring deals – especially discounted skiing and lodging rates in March-April – according to Travel-Ticker website. • What do Johnny Cash and ski resorts have to do with one another? This video by First Track Productions will answer that question. • The financial pie […]
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By Tad DeHaven The U.S. Postal Service has released a new five-year plan for congressional consideration that it says would get the beleaguered government mail monopoly on sounder financial footing and thus avoid a taxpayer bailout. The plan repeats previous suggestions (i.e., workforce reductions, postal network consolidations, elimination of Saturday delivery, elimination of the retiree […]
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By Kathryn Reed The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency must use better science and environmental analysis to prove increasing the number of buoys and piers in Lake Tahoe will not harm the alpine waters. Although it was the TRPA that essentially was on the winning side of a decision that came out of the Ninth Circuit […]
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By Michael Doyle, McClatchy WASHINGTON – The House on Wednesday approved an ambitious California water bill that favors farmers, splits the state and pressures the U.S. Senate. In a highly partisan vote, the Republican-controlled House approved the legislation that would lengthen irrigation contracts, override state law and boost deliveries to farms south of the Sacramento-San […]
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