By Julie Cart, Los Angeles Times Sierra Nevada bighorn are a genetically distinct subspecies of bighorn sheep, with the rams tending to grow flared, curling horns. The newly formed group of Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep barreled up rugged Olancha Peak last month, the 10 females and four males becoming the first new herd of the […]
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In 1951, Cecil’s Market (with the parked cars) was directly across the street from the “Flying A” gas station (left) on the two-lane Highway 50 at Stateline. Today, that gas station is Tahoe Tom’s. The historic Cecil’s remained until about 2000, replaced by the Park Avenue Project as seen in the 2011 aerial photo. Only […]
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Kathryn Reed No one is counting the beavers in the Lake Tahoe Basin. No one knows if the population is growing, decreasing or has stayed stagnant through the decades. No one is even managing them. But anyone who wants to touch the beavers’ habitat or potentially do anything to the water they are building dams […]
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Local author and Holocaust survivor Leon Malmed will share a short documentary film, discuss his story of survival, and sign copies of his book “We Survived … At Last I Speak” at Lake Tahoe Community College on April 26 at 7pm. The free event sponsored by the LTCC Foundation will be in the Aspen Room. […]
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By Electa Draper, Denver Post Five backcountry snowboarders are confirmed dead in Colorado’s deadliest avalanche since 1962. The avalanche at Loveland Pass on Highway 6 struck between 1 and 2:30, the Clear Creek County Sheriff’s Office announced late Saturday afternoon. The sheriff’s office said there was one confirmed survivor. Sheriff Don Krueger said the avalanche […]
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When the Tahoe Center for Environmental Sciences building opened a few years ago at Sierra Nevada College it was immediately heralded as being extremely green. The accolades for the Incline Village school continue with it being featured in the recently released book “The World’s Greenest Buildings” by Jerry Yudelson and Ulf Meyer. “(The book) provides […]
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U.S. Forest Service fuels management crews will begin prescribed fire operations on the West Shore beginning April 22. Crews expect to burn approximately 50 acres in the Ward Canyon area south of Tahoe City. Operations may continue through the week, weather and conditions permitting. Residents and visitors can expect to see smoke from this prescribed […]
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A South Lake Tahoe 9-year-old girl was not accosted last week as has been reported by some news outlets in South Lake Tahoe. “We did more follow-up today and it was unfounded,” El Dorado County sheriff’s Sgt. Matt Underhill told Lake Tahoe News. There were doubts all along about the girl’s story being completely accurate, […]
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The water is flowing at Cascade Falls, snow is off the trail and songbirds are singing a welcoming song.
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By Matt Weiser, Sacramento Bee California today was declared to be out of compliance with the federal Clean Water Act because it is sitting on $455 million that should be spent to improve local drinking water systems. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency submitted the notice after years of fruitless efforts to get the state to […]
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