By KTVN-TV A woman has been shot at Carson Tahoe Regional Medical Center in Carson City. Sheriff Ken Furlong tells Channel 2 News the shooting happened at 11:30 Sunday morning. The shooting happened on the 3rd floor of the hospital. That floor is currently sealed off as officials investigate. Read the whole story
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By Peter Kelly-Detwiler, Forbes Aaron Mandell, founder and chairman of WaterFX, looks at California’s water issue like a classic entrepreneur. Where others see problems, he sees opportunity for improvement and profit. And that opportunity is huge. It is common knowledge that access to clean water is a mounting problem across the globe. However, few places […]
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Tahoe Symphony Orchestra and Chorus continues its 9th annual Winter MusicFest with the “Paul Guttman Piano Competition Winner” concert series Feb. 9, 11, 13 and 14. The program opens with Bach’s choral masterpiece Magnificat, featuring vocal soloists Anna Helwing, Joy Strotz and Katharine DeBoer, sopranos, Albert Lee and Sherman Modeste, tenors and Chris Langton and […]
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By Bill Keep, Record Searchlight In California prisons, inmates flush toilets to communicate, to warn each other, and to flood their cells in protest. Wasteful? Yes, but compared to 2,500 gallons of water to raise a pound of beef? Or snow machines eating 10,000 gallons hourly to ensure skiers’ pleasure during a dry winter? The […]
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Publisher’s note: This is one of a series of blurbs about how the lack of winter is impacting businesses in the Lake Tahoe Basin. If you have an idea, please email it to info@LakeTahoeNews.net. The Napa Valley Wine Train is trying to benefit from Lake Tahoe’s lackluster snowfall. A press release says, “To put those […]
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By Campbell Robertson, New York Times BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — For over six years, Roger Shuler has hounded figures of the state legal and political establishment on his blog, Legal Schnauzer, a hothouse of furious but often fuzzily sourced allegations of deep corruption and wide-ranging conspiracy. Some of these allegations he has tested in court, having […]
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The early 1900s hand-colored postcard is captioned only as: “Lake Tahoe, near Reno, Nevada.” More specifically, likely it depicts what today is Nevada Highway 28 south of Sand Harbor. — Bill Kingman
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By Kathryn Reed TRUCKEE – A park named after the Donner party should be visited in inclement weather. It’s the best way to get a feel for what the 81-member wagon train went through in the winter of 1846-47. While such weather has been scarce this winter, we ventured out in some last Saturday. Wind […]
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Publisher’s note: This editorial is from the Jan. 18, 2014, Contra Costa Times. Next month the nation will celebrate the birthday of two presidents, in May we will honor those killed in our defense, in July the founders will be front and center, and in November we will thank our veterans. But before we get […]
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By USSA MAMMOTH MOUNTAIN -– Sage Kotsenburg (Park City) took the victory in slopestyle at the final stop of the Sprint U.S. Grand Prix Tour at Mammoth Mountain on Saturday. His progressive first run scored a full three points ahead of the rest of the field, including Kyle Mack (West Bloomfield, Mich) in second and […]
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