A winter weather advisory is in effect in the Lake Tahoe Basin from 11 this evening to 5am Thursday. The National Weather Service in Reno is calling for the heaviest snow during the day Wednesday. There could be 3 to 8 inches at the lake and 12 to 18 inches above 7,000 feet. As the […]
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Camp Star Bound offers a six-night, seven-day performing arts experience combined with all the fun of a traditional summer camp at Lake Tahoe. This is the third year. Campers will have the opportunity to learn from professional dance instructors, choreographers, theater teachers, professional actors and vocal coaches. Performers entering grades 5-12 with any level of […]
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Publisher’s note: Lake Tahoe News asked the six El Dorado County supervisor candidates a series of questions. All are the same except for one that is specific to each candidate. The responses are being run in the order they were received by LTN. One candidate chose not to answer the questions. Name: “Gerri” Geraldine Grego […]
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By Joan and Joe Truxler In November, we made the difficult decision to file a lawsuit under the federal Clean Water Act. We do not want to stop the fireworks; and if the lawsuit is successful, we cannot gain financially. Our only motivation is to protect the lake. On July 5, 2013, our neighbors in […]
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Build a better reputation online with help from Lake Tahoe South Shore Chamber of Commerce and Peak 1 Group at Tech Tuesday on April 1 at 8am. This workshop focuses on the importance of reputation marketing. Participants will learn how to proactively manage their online reputations while increasing their websites’ visibility, traffic and engagement. Tech […]
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By Kathryn Reed It’s likely the South Shore will not have a sanctioned fireworks display this Fourth of July, or even Labor Day weekend. It all has to do with a lawsuit that was filed last year because of the trash that continues to this day to spill forth on beaches in Nevada – more […]
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Two people on a motorcycle were seriously injured Saturday when the bike they were on collided with a pickup. Nevada Highway Patrol troopers said Andrey L. Gallegos, 20, of Sparks was traveling at a high rate of speed when he want through the intersection of Fairview and Roop streets in Carson City on March 22 […]
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By Amanda McMillan, Outside Scientists have known for years that rates of hypertension are higher in the winter and in countries farther from the equator, but they haven’t known why—until now. A new study from the universities of Southampton and Edinburgh suggests that exposure to sunlight plays a large role, by causing nitric oxide in […]
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Teens at the Juvenile Treatment Center in South Lake Tahoe are doing more than sitting around. Lynne Brosch and Rich Fischer of Friends of the South Lake Tahoe Public Library have been doing book groups on Monday nights with incarcerate youth. This program began in September for the girls with the reading of “The House […]
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By Richard Chang, Sacramento Bee Placer County supervisors are weighing whether to ask voters for a raise after a county panel suggested pay hikes are long overdue in the fast-growing region. Placer supervisors have made $30,000 a year ever since voters passed a ballot initiative in 1992 to cap salaries. Unlike their counterparts in other […]
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