To the community, The Lake Tahoe Visitors Authority recently conducted a weeklong “Food and Toy Drive and Drop for Christmas Cheer”. The result was a full pickup load of donated food and toys, as well as cash in excess of $1,800. We were overwhelmed by the generous response from the Tahoe South community and want […]
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By Adam Satariano, Bloomberg Diana Dawson has over the years bought her twin children digital cameras, e-book readers and media players as Christmas presents. This holiday season, she’s covering those bases with one device: a tablet computer. “They do it all,” Dawson said outside an Apple Inc. store in Walnut Creek after buying iPads for […]
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By KOLO-TV INCLINE VILLAGE — The Washoe County sheriff’s deputies are investigating a series of residential and vehicle burglaries that have occurred during the last month in the Incline Village area. According to investigators, there have been at least a dozen vehicle burglaries and eight residential burglaries in various areas of Incline Village since the […]
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By Laura Dattaro, Weather Channel When it snows in Utah, Tim Garrett likes to watch the storm. He looks outside, watching the blurry mess of white fill the window, the Wasatch Mountains in the background. But he also looks at his computer screen, where he sees a live feed of photographs of tiny, individual snowflakes, […]
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• The January issue of Travel + Leisure magazine has a story about Lake Tahoe ski resorts. • Steve Robinson, the Nevada Department of Conservation and Natural Resources rep on the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency Governing Board, attended his last meeting Dec. 18. His replacement has not been named. • Rachael Woods is now senior […]
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By Barbara Barte Osborn, Sacramento Bee TRUCKEE — A Truckee juvenile was arrested Wednesday after allegedly confessing to more than a dozen mail thefts and four burglaries the day before. On Tuesday, the Truckee Police Department received more than a dozen reports in the Glenshire subdivision related to mail tampering. Additionally, two businesses and two […]
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By Meagan Clark, International Business Times U.S. infrastructure — roads, bridges, rail, drinking water, waste water, solid waste and more—is close to flunking according to a recent assessment from the American Society of Civil Engineers. Once every four years, America’s civil engineers assess the nation’s infrastructure with an A to F report card. The engineers […]
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By USSA VAL GARDENA, Italy — Bode Miller (Franconia, N.H.) charged through difficult visibility on the upper half of the Saslong super G and made an incredibly athletic move at the final gate to lead the U.S. Ski Team with eighth in Val Gardena on Dec. 20. Uncharacteristically warm temperatures in the Italian valley caused […]
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The bear-people issue in Incline Village has gotten so bad that a couple filed a report with Washoe County sheriff’s investigators saying they have received death threats because they reported a problem bear to state officials. According to the Reno Gazette-Journal, Nevada Department of Wildlife trapped a 263-pound male black bear outside Richard and Adrienne […]
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By Nick Zaccardi, NBC Due to lack of snow, the third of five Olympic selection events in ski and snowboard halfpipe and slopestyle was moved from Northstar to Breckenridge, Colo. Breckenridge, which hosted last week’s first selection event, will now host the Jan. 8-12 stop, too. “While the snow conditions are great at Northstar and […]
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