By Dan Hinxman, Reno Gazette-Journal STATELINE — The three Winter Olympians playing in this week’s American Century Championship celebrity golf tournament at Edgewood Tahoe all say Reno-Tahoe is ready to host the Winter Games again. “There’s no better place,” said Dan Jansen, who won his lone Olympic medal, a gold, in the 1,000-meter speedskating at […]
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Tahoe Youth & Family Services is saying thank you to the community for 40 years of support with an event in the parking lot at the Red Hut on Ski Run Boulevard in South Lake Tahoe. Free ice cream cones, popcorn, cotton candy and a bounce house will be part of the party on July […]
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The Squaw Valley Community of Writers brings an Extraordinary Evening of Poetry to Squaw Valley on July 21. The night will consist of a poetry reading by the five award-winning staff poets: Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman, Cathy Park Hong, Major Jackson and Sharon Olds. The Squaw Valley Community of Writers has been […]
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Scott Lankford, author of “Tahoe Beneath the Surface: The Hidden Stories of America’s Largest Mountain Lake” will sign books July 19 from 3-5pm at Explore Tahoe, 4114 Lake Tahoe Blvd., South Lake Tahoe. Call (530) 542.4637 for more details.
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By Jon Ortiz, Sacramento Bee From California to Florida, many public employees are paying more for their pensions now than a year ago as strapped state and local governments cast about for savings. Now a sweeping Republican proposal in the California Senate, among other changes, would hike how much all current and future state and […]
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The Washoe County Sheriff’s Office’s RAVEN program has received authorization to fly fire suppression missions on Department of Interior lands. This letter allows the RAVEN 3 Huey helicopter to drop water on wildland fires on BLM land. The authorization was sought in order to fully take part in the initial attack of wildland fires in […]
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Lake Tahoe, Monterey/Carmel, Napa and other Northern California locations were among the weakest markets for hotel occupancy, average nightly rates and revenue per room in May, according to PKF Consulting. San Francisco, on the other hand, is outpacing most of Northern California with an 84.5 occupancy rate in May and 77.8 percent for the first […]
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The Squaw Valley Community of Writers brings an Extraordinary Evening of Poetry to Squaw Valley on July 21. The night will consist of a poetry reading by the five award-winning staff poets: Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Hass, Brenda Hillman, Cathy Park Hong, Major Jackson and Sharon Olds. The event begins at 8pm at Bar One […]
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By KATU-TV SKAMANIA COUNTY, Wash. – A woman who traveled to Washington state from South Lake Tahoe to attend the Rainbow Family gathering in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest is now missing. Marie C. Hanson, 54, was last seen on July 10. She was here visiting from South Lake Tahoe and joined thousands of others […]
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Three teenagers were reportedly caught tagging Bijou Community School in South Lake Tahoe on July 13. Six South Lake Tahoe teens were at the scene that night, with only three being arrested. A fourth arrest is pending, according to officers. Four of the six were actively engaged in marking the campus with graffiti, officers said. […]
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