By Ed Pearce, KOLO-TV INCLINE VILLAGE — Residents and visitors to Lake Tahoe share the basin with the area’s wildlife including what may be a majority of Nevada’s entire population of 400 to 500 black bears. Beginning Aug. 20 it will be legal to hunt them here. That’s welcome news to the small number of […]
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Put on your Glad Rags for the Great Gatsby Gala on Aug. 13 at MontBleu in Stateline. Attire is 1920s. Free Charleston lessons will be given. Cocktails are at 6:30pm, dinner 7pm, dancing at 8pm. Dinner and dancing is $60; just dancing is$20. Tickets are available at both Tahoe Youth & Family Services offices, 1021 […]
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By Jason Kellner, Reno Gazette-Journal In 25 years, the Reno-Tahoe area has seen thousands of concerts come and go, from the small casino showrooms to the large arenas. Lawlor Events Center, which opened in 1984, helped change Reno’s concert landscape, growing it from an oft-overlooked outpost, to a main stop for artists over the years […]
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By Adam Kotin, California Climate & Agriculture Network One thing can be said for certain about the 2007-2009 drought in California: it sure got a lot of attention. Both its natural severity and the complex set of political, economic, and social disputes yielded a drama of epic proportions that got people talking around the state […]
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• There will be a book sale at the South Lake Tahoe library on Rufus Allen Boulevard on July 30. Doors open to Friends of the Library at 9am and to the general public at 10am. The sale ends at 3pm. • Early registration is open for SMG’s annual October tourism and marketing workshop on […]
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By Melonie Guttry In 1984, a single individual envisioned the Lake Tahoe Demonstration Garden, which is now a flourishing 7-acre garden showcasing attractive native and adapted plants, while using conservation techniques to address water quality concerns. The Lake Tahoe Demonstration Garden is located on the Lake Tahoe Community College property behind the G-Wing Garden Buildings […]
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By Kate Linthicum, Los Angeles Times The Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday passed a pioneering new law intended to protect bicyclists from harassment by motorists. The ordinance, which backers described as the toughest of its kind in the nation, makes it a crime for drivers to threaten cyclists verbally or physically, and allows victims […]
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Today marks the 21st anniversary of the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act, which guarantees equal opportunity for people with disabilities in public accommodations, commercial facilities, employment, transportation, state and local government services and telecommunications. According to the Census Bureau, 36 million people have a disability. They represent 12 percent of the civilian noninstitutionalized […]
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By Sean Whaley, Nevada News Bureau CARSON CITY – Anyone with an interest in what Nevada’s state and local government employees make in salary and benefits can review the 2010 data that has been posted this month by a Nevada think tank. The searchable database at Transparent Nevada does not yet contain all the local […]
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The 2011 Rim to Reno trail season kickoff has been postponed until Aug. 6 due to heavy snow in the project area. The Tahoe Rim Trail Association seeks volunteers construct trail at the first workday of the year at 9am Aug. 6 at the Mt. Rose Trailhead near the summit of the Mt. Rose Highway. […]
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