By Kara LaPoint, Reno Gazette-Journal It’s only September, but the time has come for those seeking resort employment this ski season to start thinking about winter. “We’re at that transition point, where summer operations are winding down, and we’re looking ahead to winter season,” said Kirt Zimmer, director of marketing for Tahoe Donner Association. Hiring […]
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By Reno Gazette-Journal When Street Vibrations roars into Northern Nevada on Wednesday, the five-day celebration for the first time will take over downtown Reno, downtown Sparks and Virginia City. For the first time in years, bikers will be able to park their bikes on Virginia Street from Second to Sixth streets. “From day one, people […]
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By Reno Gazette-Journal 7:55 a.m. update: Interstate 80 is expected to be closed in both directions at the Nevada-California line until about 9 a.m. as crews clean up an accident, the California Highway Patrol reports. Additionally, drivers in both directions can expect delays until about 11 a.m. as crews repair a divider wall damaged by […]
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There will be “meet and greet” for Clint Curtis, the District 4 candidate for U.S. Congress, on Sept. 26 at 3pm. For full information, check out the Lake Tahoe Democratic Club website.
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By Reno Gazette-Journal Gov. Jim Gibbons remained in the hospital overnight after taking a fall off a horse north of Pyramid Lake Tuesday afternoon, spokesman Dan Burns said this morning. Burns said he is heading to Renown Regional Medical Center to get an update on Gibbons’ condition. Read the whole story
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By Kathryn Reed By the time firefighters were done, it looked like a wrecking yard at the end of Lodi Avenue. Mangled vehicles littered the pavement that in winter is used by Caltrans crews as snow storage. “It gave guys a chance to cut the doors off, roofs off and all the normal stuff we […]
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By Kristi Buffo When 37-year-old Dwayne Joyner was diagnosed with kidney cancer, his wife asked him what his biggest regret would be should he not survive, besides—of course, missing her and his two young children. “He said he had always wanted to enter a barbecue competition and, ultimately, open a catering business… and that’s how […]
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By Will Frampton, News 10 Hundreds of trees have been removed near Tahoe City this summer for fire prevention. The 150-acre area that has been cleared, known as the Ward Creek Park project, is the largest of its kind in the area in recent years, according to area fire protection officials. A spokeswoman for California […]
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Kirkwood Mountain Resort this week is opening Northern California’s first complete treetop zipline tour. Kirkwood Canopy Tours will feature nine ziplines and three suspension bridges, with views of the Kirkwood Valley. Height and weight restrictions apply. Learn more about Kirkwood’s zip tour experience here.
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By Jeff Delong, Reno Gazette-Journal Insisting peaceful winter sports are increasingly being disrupted by noisy snowmobiles, critics are asking the government to alter the way the machines are managed on national forest land. Snowmobile groups say the petition filed by a coalition of 90 conservation and recreation groups is an attempt to unfairly restrict their […]
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