The Lake Tahoe real estate market ended the decade with strong sales and significant signs of improvement, according to a year-end report from Chase International. The report, which compares all sales and home prices from 2010 to those of 2009, shows a 16 percent increase in units sold and a 20 percent jump in overall […]
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The fast-paced action sport of slopestyle skiing has been confirmed for the International Ski Federation’s Freestyle World Ski Championships being hosted by February by Deer Valley and Park City Mountain Resorts. The slopestyle event, which is one of three new action sports events being considered for inclusion in the 2014 Olympic Winter Games, will be […]
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Yesterday I literally had to fight back tears after the first hour. I am not ashamed to say that, but their suffering was very emotional and they have been waiting for some hope. One patient was seventeen and looked seven. She had terrible deformities from previous burns, but also a belly full of ascites. I […]
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By Sam Stanton, Sacramento Bee A judge today suspended phone calls between Phillip and Nancy Garrido after the El Dorado County counsel raised concerns that their monthly conversations may have veered into witness-tampering. Ed Knapp told the judge in the Jaycee Lee Dugard kidnapping case that “our fears have been confirmed.” Knapp said later outside […]
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By Reno Gazette-Journal TAHOE CITY — Alpenglow Sports, a 30-year North Lake Tahoe backcountry ski and outdoor retailer, has partnered with industry-leading outdoor manufacturers Black Diamond, Dynafit North America, Patagonia and Marmot to create an unprecedented challenge for the region’s backcountry skiing community. “Tahoe’s consistently deep snowpack, long spring season and copious bluebird powder days […]
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By Jeff Delong, Reno Gazette-Journal Don’t call him a fish guy. It’s not that he doesn’t know a lot about fish. He does. He knows about big ones and little ones. He knows a lot about ones that are swimming where they should be and those that are living where they should not. But as […]
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It’s looking like another gorgeous day to hit the slopes. Check out the ski report from Curtis Fong, the Guy from Tahoe.
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It’s official, signs are up for Emily’s Run at Heavenly Mountain Resort. The ski foundation teams began racing on it this week. “The course is awesome. You can see the whole thing from top to bottom with no tree obstruction,” Steve Clothier, Emily’s father, told Lake Tahoe News. “They will now be training slalom, GS, […]
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By Maggie O’Neill, Reno Gazette-Journal Christi Cakiroglu has learned a lot about trash over the years. As a result, the 38-year-old executive director of Keep Truckee Meadows Beautiful has an intense love-hate relationship with that thing called litter. She loves to pick it up, but she hates to find it — especially in open spaces […]
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By Garry Bowen On Dec. 14, upon the first seating of South Lake Tahoe’s newly-elected City Council, a quiet anniversary one day shy of a year was commemorated by a rather quiet submission, that of a project proposal regarding a Community Garden for South Shore. As there was quite a lot of commotion that day, […]
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