By Eddie Pells, AP KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia — Phoebe Mills used to flip for Olympic medals. These days, she decides who wins them. The 1988 U.S. gymnastics champion and Olympic bronze medalist is working in the snowboarding judging booth at the Sochi Games, giving marks in both the halfpipe and slopestyle contests at Rosa Khutor […]
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By Danny King, Travel Weekly Drought conditions in the Western U.S. are chipping away at North American ski-resort demand that had shown initial gains from the combination of a resurgent economy and early-season storms. Despite the fact that some Colorado resorts late last month received their largest single- and two-day snowfall amounts in more than […]
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South Tahoe Refuse workers are used to sorting all sorts of things that come across the conveyor belt. On Monday it was a gun. “The protocol is it gets turned into our manager immediately and then we call the police department and they come pick it up,” John Marchini, who owns STR, told Lake Tahoe […]
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By Mark Glover, Sacramento Bee California’s 2013 grape crush hit a record high 4,685,075 tons, up 6.8 percent from the previous record high 2012 crush of 4,387,434 tons, according to new statistics released Monday by the California Department of Food and Agriculture. The department’s 2013 Preliminary Grape Crush Report said red wine varieties accounted for […]
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To the community, Bread & Broth was very fortunate to have the Genasci/Stigers Family Dental Care group sponsor the Adopt A Day of Nourishment on Feb. 3. It was a busy night for the B&B volunteers and enthusiastically assisting them were Lee Anne Stigers, Jon Helman, Alejandra Quirarte, and Lisa Mascitelli. Thanks to the evening’s […]
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By Andrew Alden, KQED-TV Underground boundaries between land and sea aren’t as stark as they are to us as we stand on the beach. Water knows this. Groundwater everywhere responds slowly to changes above, even geological changes. In most of the Earth’s crust, water moves around a meter per year. This enormous contrast between surface […]
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The U.S. men missed the podium in the halfpipe on Tuesday. Ayumu Hirano, the 15-year-old from Japan, who is coached by Elijah Teter, won silver at the Sochi Games with a score of 93.5. Swiss rider Iouri Podladtchikov won gold with a 94.75. Taking the bronze was Japan’s Taku Hiraoka with a 92.25. Shaun White, […]
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A 15-year-old South Lake Tahoe teen is at Renown Medical Center in Reno today recovering from injuries sustained the night before after being hit by a vehicle. The name of the youth has not been released. The extent of his injuries is also not known. The boy was at the intersection of Third and Washington […]
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By Robin Wilkey, Huffington Post A new bill introduced by House Republicans would limit the ability of the Environmental Protection Agency to recommend or implement policies. The bill, dubbed the Secret Science Reform Act, would force the EPA to publicly release its research on a topic before issuing a policy recommendation, and require that the […]
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By Kathryn Reed A workshop Monday was designed for the South Lake Tahoe City Council to figure out how to allocate any surpluses so policy is in place before the money is in hand and it doesn’t get wasted. The council fell short of that goal. City Manager Nancy Kerry said part of the goal […]
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