Mother Nature has finally turned on the spigot and with all the moisture comes mixed news. For starters, ski resorts around Lake Tahoe are reporting multiple feet of snow in the past three days. However, with the temperatures being relatively warm, the white stuff was heavy. Kirkwood Mountain Resort does not plan to open Sunday […]
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By Alyssa Roenigk, ESPN KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia — Jamie Anderson of Meyers stood atop the podium and lifted her arms in triumph, her long and sometimes draining quest for Olympic glory finally complete. Anderson gave the United States a gold-medal sweep in the first Olympic slopestyle snowboarding competition on Sunday, while Jenny Jones took bronze […]
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By USSA ROSA KHUTOR, Russia -– Travis Ganong (Squaw Valley) charged to fifth on the steep and fast course of the 2014 Sochi downhill on Sunday, pulling out the best finish of his career during his first Olympic appearance. Ganong skied into the lead, but was then bumped by Norwegian Kjetil Jansrud, who took bronze […]
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In the early 1960s, developers promoted a planned recreational community in Meyers which they named Tahoe Paradise. A promotional brochure shows the plan included a long, covered moving walkway leading to a proposed Tahoe Paradise Inn, a riding stables, hot springs, water service, recreation club, and a new Highway 89 link toward Camp Richardson. Today’s […]
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By Kathryn Reed MARKLEEVILLE – Mystery hot springs between Markleeville and Gardnerville are still just that – a mystery. I know they exist. I’ve seen pictures. I’ve heard stories. I’ve talked to someone who has been in the springs. I even had directions. But the four of us never found them. I had been told […]
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By Robert Reich With polls showing that a majority of Americans now believe inequality has grown over the past decade, and favor tax increases on the wealthy to expand help to those in need, conservatives want to change the subject. Those with presidential ambitions say we should focus on poverty rather than on inequality. Sen. […]
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A large number of Liberty Utilities’ customers on the North Shore are without power Saturday night. No cause has been located as of 10:10pm. Because of that, there is no estimated time when power will be restored. The outage is affecting customers serviced by the Brockway substation. The number of customers without power has not […]
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By Jeremy B. White, Sacramento Bee The sign wasn’t the kind most businesses feel compelled to post. “We Are Not A House Of Prostitution,” proclaimed the notice that Assemblyman Jimmy Gomez, D-Los Angeles, recalled seeing in the window of a Los Feliz massage parlor. To Gomez, the message illustrated how a perennial concern about massage […]
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To the community, Why I went to the meeting Feb. 6: After reading the Catalyst Project document, I was shocked. This wasn’t a catalyst for commercial growth, it was an immense planned development. I realized that this project could never happen because there wasn’t enough commercially zoned land for a new 4-acre project. Then a […]
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By Aaron Kinney, Bay Area News Group SACRAMENTO — Taking an even more aggressive approach to protecting drought-stricken fish, state wildlife officials on Wednesday tightened already unprecedented restrictions on recreational fishing in Northern California. The California Fish and Game Commission voted unanimously to extend shutdowns along the northern coast until the spring to safeguard threatened […]
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