By Tracy Franklin This is the fifth of a series of articles highlighting emergency preparedness. Use these tools to prepare yourself for an emergency. More information is available in the city’s website. Choosing comfort over inconvenience: Coping with the impact of a disaster is never fun. However, much of the inconvenience and discomfort the disaster […]
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The Tahoe Rim Trail Association will celebrate American Hiking Society’s 21st annual National Trails Day on June 1 at Van Sickle Bi-State Park at Stateline. It will be a trail building day. The Tahoe Rim Trail Association will provide hard hats, trail building tools, expert crew leaders and lunch. To participate, register online at or […]
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Country music’s “Redneck Woman,” Grammy-Award winner Gretchen Wilson will kick up the dust May 31 at Lake Tahoe’s MontBleu casino. The hard-singing country music star has charted 13 times, including the Grammy Award-winning single “Redneck Woman.” Wilson’s anthems are as real as her album titles imply; most noteworthy being “Here to Party,” “Work Hard, Play […]
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By Hudson Sangree, Sacramento Bee The number of Sacramento-area homeowners who owe more than their homes are worth continued tumbling in the first three months of this year, real estate tracking firm Zillow reported this week. In the first quarter of 2013, there were 140,857 homes in so-called negative equity in the Sacramento region, the […]
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By Arianna Bennett, KTVN-TV A Reno woman will attempt to make Nevada history Saturday by becoming the first person to travel the Nevada Discovery Trail solo on horseback. Over the next four weeks Samantha Szesciorka, her dog Bella and her horse Sage will be alone in the wide-open Nevada desert trekking 450 miles on the […]
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• Raley’s, Bel-Air and Nob Hill stores will offer discounted tickets from June 1-July 21 to the 24th annual American Century Championship, the celebrity golf tournament at Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course, July 16-21. • Incline High School’s Jordan Jones will receive UNR’s most prestigious scholarship – the National Merit Scholarship. She will be studying biology […]
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By Ky Plaskon, Capitol Public Radio A Lake Tahoe area scientist has found an unidentified life form in Fallen Leaf Lake. Now agencies in the area are trying to figure out what it is. UNR professor emeritus, John Kleppe, pilots a remotely operated vehicle, or “ROV,” into the frigid depths of the South Shore lake. […]
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A pilot suffered non life-threatening injuries after his plane crashed somewhere on Martis Peak near the Truckee Tahoe Airport on Thursday afternoon. Crews say tough terrain at the crash site forced them to bring in helicopters to rescue the pilot. The unidentified pilot was the only person aboard the plane when it went down about […]
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By Rosanna Xia and Robert J. Lopez, Los Angeles Times More than three dozen aftershocks, ranging up to a magnitude 4.9, have been registered following a 5.7 earthquake about 150 miles northeast of Sacramento, officials said. The first quake struck at about 8:47pm Thursday; its epicenter was about 27 miles southwest of the town of […]
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The “most unpredictable two minutes in Tahoe,” the 10th annual Truckee Duckee Derbee, is set for June 9 at the River Ranch Lodge near Alpine Meadows. The rubber duck races benefit the Humane Society of Truckee Tahoe. The afternoon’s festivities include live music provided by Angele and the Wildwood Band on the outdoor patio, a […]
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