BamBam is a 16-month-old Saint Bernard mix. He is house and crate trained and would love to go to training classes to learn more leash manners. He knows sit, come and down. He likes most dogs, but would like to meet yours before going home with them. He didn’t chase the cats that he met […]
Read more
By Rick Rodgers For most people, tax time is for worrying about getting audited and hoping for a refund that will help make ends meet. There are more ways to save for retirement than just taking advantage of your company’s 401(k), which today is almost the equivalent of stuffing your savings in a mason jar […]
Read more
By Kathryn Reed Peak 9441 is listed on maps just like that, with no other name. Mike Shreve is on a mission to name the Desolation Wilderness peak Mount Ryan after his son who died in 2003. In 1992, when the South Lake Tahoe father and son were on a Boy Scout backpacking trip, Ryan […]
Read more
By Kathryn Reed Caltrans crews on Sunday started the multi-day process of clearing Highway 89 around Emerald Bay Road. People trying to get up that way were being turned around at Cascade Road on the South Shore on Sunday afternoon. A Caltrans worker who did not give his name said it would take at least […]
Read more
Storms erase “Sierra cement” phrase from people’s vocabulary. Here is the ski report from Curtis Fong, the Guy from Tahoe.
Read more
By U.S. Ski Team GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany -– Frenchman Jean-Baptiste Grange ignored rapidly deteriorating course conditions Sunday to convert a first run lead into the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships slalom gold medal. World Champs rookie Nolan Kasper of Warren, Vt., was 15th and giant slalom gold medalist Ted Ligety of Park City 19th as the […]
Read more
By John Crabtree I met an advertising man once who spent the better part of an hour explaining to me why the farmer and the cowboy are America’s most enduring and iconic images. Growing up on my family’s farm in Iowa made me skeptical. But I recognize that the concept of American agriculture that most […]
Read more
Explore Tahoe Winter Speaker Series continues Feb. 24 at 6pm. The Friends of Snowshoe Thompson present the Life and Adventures of Snowshoe Thompson, the legendary mailman of the Sierra Nevada. Explore Tahoe is located in the Heavenly Village next to North Face at 4114 Lake Tahoe Blvd. A $5 donation is requested and refreshments are […]
Read more
By Lori Weisberg, Sign On San Diego Olympic skier Julia Mancuso is among winter athletes featured in a new California tourism ad campaign airing on cable TV. California tourism officials have turned to celebrity athletes and chefs to promote the state as an ideal destination for skiing and snowboard enthusiasts, as well as vacationers with […]
Read more
By Guy Clifton, Reno Gazette-Journal The Nevada Department of Wildlife, looking for ways to help fund programs and match federal grants, is proposing the establishment of a “gift account” that would let people and organizations donate directly to the department rather than have the money funnel through the state’s general fund. The program would also […]
Read more