On March 18 at 6pm Explore Tahoe Visitor Center will host the Sugar Pine Foundation. President John Pickett and Executive Director Maria Mircheva will present the agency’s collaborative strategy to preserve the White Pines currently plagued by a non-native invasive fungus. Cones and seedlings will be available for purchase and stewardship opportunities will be announced. […]
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Marco Sullivan of Squaw Valley finished 23rd in the super G on Feb. 19 at the Winter Olympics. For all the results, click here.
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By Kathryn Reed El Dorado County has one less sheriff’s candidate in the race. Stan Perez backed out today. “The support has been overwhelming,” Perez told Lake Tahoe News Friday afternoon of his candidacy. But the money to fund it is not there. He said in these economic times it’s too difficult to ask people […]
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By Bill Pennington, New York Times WHISTLER, British Columbia — Rivals since they were 12, Lindsey Vonn and Julia Mancuso have long been the yin and yang of American ski racing. They are Olympic teammates now for the third time, and little has changed since they were preteens. Lindsey Vonn has 18 World Cup wins […]
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A storm is expected to move into the Lake Tahoe region later today. For now, it’s partly cloudy. Here is the ski report from Curtis Fong, the Guy from Tahoe.
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By Kathryn Reed It was hard to know if the look on the faces of the South Tahoe Public Utility District board members was boredom or not really believing what was being fed to them. South Lake Tahoe City Manger Dave Jinkens went before the board at its regular Thursday meeting to discuss the city’s […]
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Sugarland is slated for another big country music weekend at the 2010 Lake Tahoe Summer Concert Series at Harveys Outdoor Arena on July 10. Tickets go on sale at 10am March 22. Sugarland — Jennifer Nettles and Kristian Bush — won two Grammy Awards in 2009 for Best Country Song and Best Country Performance by […]
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By Kathryn Reed TRUCKEE — Staring at a map that looks more vast than the layout of the downhill resort, I feel overwhelmed. I just want a little snowshoe. No worries. Short or long, green-blue-black — that’s all possible at Northstar-at-Tahoe. It was easy to accommodate the three of us. My sister, Jann, doesn’t downhill […]
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By Kathryn Reed A buzz filled the air as more than 50 people gathered to plot a course to make Ski Run Boulevard in South Lake Tahoe a destination. Going from the lake to the mountains, the businesses and property owners on this street are eager to do what’s needed to be done to make […]
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Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the Feb. 18 edition of the Reno Gazette-Journal. The tragedy of the Jaycee Lee Dugard kidnapping nearly 20 years ago isn’t just that the young girl was stolen from her family in South Lake Tahoe, Calif., or that she was held captive for some 18 years, sexually assaulted and […]
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