By Kathryn Reed MEYERS – Fire officials are feeling like people have forgotten that every day there is threat of a catastrophic fire in the Lake Tahoe Basin. They feel a bit dissed to not be more involved with the Aug. 16 annual environmental summit, when in recent years they have been an integral part […]
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Mountain Bike Nevada is a 519-mile border-to-border tour from Sept. 10-20. Sponsored by the Nevada State Parks, the tour will start at the historic Cal Neva Resort on the North Shore and end in the shadow of Wheeler Peak in Great Basin National Park. The off-road route will explore the Flume Trail, six State Parks, […]
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The U.S. Commerce Department’s Economics and Statistics Administration has issued the second in a series of reports on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) jobs and higher education. As expected, the report “Women in STEM: A Gender Gap to Innovation” finds there are fewer women than men in STEM jobs and attaining degrees in STEM […]
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By Jeff Delong, Reno Gazette-Journal La Niña, the weather pattern that helped produce an epic winter for the Reno-Tahoe region in 2011, could return in a few months. The U.S. Climate Prediction Center on Thursday issued a La Niña watch, citing conditions indicating a return of the climatic phenomenon sometime next fall. La Niña, characterized […]
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Publisher’s note: This is reprinted with permission from the March 1976 Lake Tahoe Historical Society newsletter. The Historical Society will honor the 25th Anniversary of St. Theresa’s Church at its March meeting. The program will be in charge of Father Grace who first came to the parish in April of 1956. As an outreach of […]
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• The Incline Village General Improvement District board of trustees is ready to put a disc golf course in. It will be paid for from donations from the community. • Bijou Bash at Bijou Community Park in South Lake Tahoe is Sept. 10 from 10am-4pm. • Trinkie Watson was recently named a Paul Harris Fellow […]
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By Kathryn Reed MEYERS — Nevada Fire Safe Council’s financial ledger is being looked at by more than just the auditing firm the nonprofit hired to do an audit. The Office of Inspector General spent a week at the Carson City office reviewing grants. Lake Tahoe News has also been told the Bureau of Land […]
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Publisher’s note: The following letter was approved Aug. 2 by the El Dorado County Board of Supervisors to be sent to the Governing Board of the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency. Dear Governing Board: The purpose of this letter is to convey our support for your continued pursuit of lake clarity through environmental threshold gains, transportation […]
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By Paula Peterson AVILA BEACH – To sum it up: heavenly. I found a place to unwind, relax, disappear into my own world, and yet, my daughter can have fun and enjoy it as well. And, I don’t have to leave the hotel. When traveling with your kids there aren’t many places that can give […]
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A Minden woman sustained life-threatening injuries when the vehicle she was driving up Blue Lakes Road lost control, hit a tree, flipped and came to rest about a mile into the forest on Saturday. Shellie Scott, 44, was hoisted out of the area off Highway 88 by a CHP helicopter crew. They transferred her to […]
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