Tickets are on sale for the annual Father Daughter Dance. The dance is Feb. 7 from 7-9:30pm at Harrah’s Lake Tahoe. Tickets are $20 per couple and $8 per additional daughter. Tickets are being sold at Kahle Community Center. Tickets must be purchased in advance and the event often sells out. For more information, (775) […]
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By Rick Rodgers The New Year is a great time to make positive changes in your financial life. While Americans are good at creating resolutions, we often find them difficult to keep. We resolve to lose weight, save money or end bad habits, but few of us stick with those plans for long. If your […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe residents are coping with less plastic – at least for now. Grocery stores in the city had to stop providing single-use plastic bags to customers starting Jan. 15 per an ordinance that was approved last fall. Other stores and restaurants in town must comply with the ordinance beginning Oct. […]
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To the community, On Jan. 5, I got a phone call that Pat McLeod, the lady I’ve been driving to Incline Village to the doctor, passed away. I had asked my prayer chain for prayers of healing and strength for Pat a couple times in the last few years so I wanted to thank all […]
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By USSA MAMMOTH MOUNTAIN -– Olympic halfpipe champion Shaun White, who rides for Northstar, mathematically clinched a spot on the inaugural U.S. Olympic team for slopestyle snowboarding on Thursday at the Paul Mitchell Slopestyle at the Sprint U.S. Grand Prix. White crashed hard in Thursday’s earlier competition and was down for nearly five minutes before […]
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• Standard and Poor’s Rating Services upgraded Douglas County’s underlying bond rating by two notches to AA or “very strong”. The bond rating is the first upgrade in 10 years and is the highest underlying rating ever provided to Douglas County from S&P. • El Dorado Arts Council has added Kim Wyatt, publisher of Bona […]
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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. El Dorado Community Foundation has reached out to the Lake Tahoe Collaborative to potentially provide financial assistance as people are struggling […]
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By Tony Bizjak, Sacramento Bee Saying El Dorado County is growing too fast and Highway 50 is getting jammed, a group of activists launched a drive Tuesday to qualify a November ballot measure that would slow growth while encouraging the county to work harder to bring jobs to the area. Petitioners hope to qualify their […]
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By Glenda Anderson, Press Democrat A Tahoe City man suffered major injuries and was arrested following a single-vehicle crash on Highway 175 in Lake County on Tuesday. David Mahoney, 47, was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence after being flown to Santa Rosa Memorial Hospital with injuries that included fractures of his skull […]
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The U.S. Forest Service will waive fees at most of its day-use recreation sites on Jan. 20 in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The fee waiver day is the first of four such days and one full weekend offered by the agency during 2014. The other scheduled fee-free days observed by the Forest […]
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