By Andrea Petersen, Wall Street Journal Vail Resorts has come up with a novel way to combat the leveling off of skiing’s popularity: buying up little Midwestern hills. The goal is to hook families on the sport at spots close to home and groom them for vacations at the company’s pricier Western mountains like Canyons […]
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By AP INCLINE VILLAGE — Firefighters hiked an hour through nearly a mile of thick brush early Friday to snuff out a small wildland blaze near Lake Tahoe, where authorities are bracing for an early start to a potentially dangerous fire season in the Sierra. No structures were threatened by the fire that broke out […]
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By Lynn Stuart Parramore, AlterNet Why should people in the richest country on Earth toil long hours for wages that would make Charles Dickens recoil in horror? A lot of Americans have been wondering the same thing. The Bureau of Labor Statistics reports that in 2012, 1.57 million Americans earned the minimum wage of $7.25 […]
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Publisher’s note: This is one of a series of blurbs about how the lack of winter is impacting the Lake Tahoe Basin. If you have an idea, please email it to info@LakeTahoeNews.net. U.S. Forest Service officials are noticing more people using their facilities in the Lake Tahoe Basin now compared to most winters. It all […]
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By Larry Gordon, Los Angeles Times SAN FRANCISCO — The leaders of California’s three public higher education systems Wednesday pledged more cooperation, particularly in transferring students, while Gov. Jerry Brown urged them to develop more innovative collaborations. In a rare gathering, University of California President Janet Napolitano, California State University Chancellor Timothy P. White and […]
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South Lake Tahoe is hosting a community meeting to receive public input on outdoor displays in front of businesses. The meeting is Jan. 30 from 5:30-7pm at Lake Tahoe Airport. Item to be discusses include: Should additional commercial area be allowed in front of businesses? If so, how much? Should any types of commercial retail […]
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By USSA CORTINA D’AMPEZZO, Italy — The U.S. Ski Team speed women continued to storm toward the Audi FIS Alpine World Cup podium Saturday as Stacey Cook (Mammoth Mountain) finished fifth and Julia Mancuso (Squaw Valley) seventh in the second of two Cortina downhills. With less than two weeks to the 2014 Olympic Winter Games, […]
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By USSA ASPEN -– Olympians David Wise (Reno) and Maddie Bowman (South Lake Tahoe) grabbed X Games gold at the halfpipe skiing final in Aspen on Friday night, just a few weeks before the historic halfpipe skiing debut at the 2014 Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, Russia. It was Wise’s third-straight gold medal at X […]
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By USSA KITZBUEHEL, Austria -– Victory at the famed Hahnenkamm downhill eluded Bode Miller (Franconia, N.H.) yet again as the Olympic champion finished third in Kitzbuehel. Miller, who won the only training run, skied a tactically tight line for every ounce of speed but made a drastic mistake going into a flat section to drop […]
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By Kathryn Reed Work will be begin this spring on a multi-use softball and Little League field at the Al Tahoe complex in South Lake Tahoe. Steve Noll, who is on the Fields Advisory Committee for the South Lake Tahoe Recreation Facilities Joint Powers Authority, explained Jan. 24 to the JPA board how the area […]
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