By Jeff Delong, Reno Gazette-Journal Characterizing the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency as a heavy-handed bureaucracy treading on property rights and overly influenced by California, Nevada lawmakers are seeking to pull the state from the organization. Legislators from Southern Nevada, Washoe County and Douglas County are backing legislation to withdraw Nevada from the Tahoe Regional Planning […]
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By Frank X. Mullen Jr., Reno Gazette-Journal Early Tuesday, Bryce Henderson and Trent Marietta, two experienced back country skiers from Reno, followed nearly all the avalanche safety precautions when they set out for an area called Fireplug near the summit of Mt. Rose Highway. But a wall of snow, 18 inches deep and 200 yards […]
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By Frank X. Mullen, Reno Gazette-Journal The body of a California skier missing since Monday was found Tuesday on a run at the Sugar Bowl Ski Resort, according to the Placer County Sheriff’s Department. Deputies and Ski Patrol members had been searching late Monday and early Tuesday for John Hoffman, 58, of Oakland, who was […]
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Following unexpected challenges to board member attendance as well as the threat of hazardous road conditions, the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency is rescheduling the March 23 hearing on Boulder Bay, as well as everything else on the agenda.
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By Torey Van Oot, Sacramento Bee The dozens of people gathered at a south Sacramento residence on Super Bowl Sunday weren’t there to watch the football championship. They were there, officials say, to watch two roosters battle to the death in an illegal cockfight. That gathering was broken up by Sacramento County sheriff’s deputies, who […]
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By Simon Winchester, Newsweek All of those broken bones in northern Japan, all of those broken lives and those broken homes prompt us to remember what in calmer times we are invariably minded to forget: the most stern and chilling of mantras, which holds, quite simply, that mankind inhabits this earth subject to geological consent—which […]
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A winter storm warning is in effect from 11 this evening through 8pm Wednesday. A winter storm watch is in effect from Thursday morning through Friday morning. The National Weather Service in Reno is saying to be prepared for 1 to 2 feet above 7,000 feet, with up to a foot below that elevation. Avalanche […]
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Hit the slopes today before the next storm rolls in. Here is the ski report from Curtis Fong, the Guy from Tahoe.
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Publisher’s note: It has been confirmed the three people who died in the plane crash were Truckee airport board trustee Katie Morrison and her children — 6-year-old Wyatt and 5-year-old Hannah. Services will be March 24 in the afternoon at the Martis Camp Family Barn in Truckee. By Salvador Hernandez, Orange County Register BARSTOW – […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe wants the public’s help when it comes to money matters. The City Council this month agreed to create a Fiscal Sustainability Committee. Councilmembers Claire Fortier and Bruce Grego were not at the March 15 meeting. “In these economic and fiscally challenging times many local governments are seeking to increase […]
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