The League to Save Lake Tahoe will be giving a presentation on the evenings of March 13 and 14 about Pipe Keepers, a new volunteer monitoring program. Pipe Keepers is a volunteer-based monitoring program that examines turbidity (clarity) of water that enters Lake Tahoe and its tributaries through storm drains. The group was created last […]
Read more
While winter storms have blasted parts of the Midwest and Northeast, a lack of steady and deep snow — less accumulation and faster melt — has had serious effects for the ski industry. Hari Sreenivasan reports on how winter sports businesses are navigating the season as part of the Coping with Climate Change series. — […]
Read more
By David DeBolt, Contra Costa Times The Concord City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to support emergency repairs at Camp Concord, avoiding a possible delay in the opening of the city-operated camp. The 5-0 vote declared an emergency at the Lake Tahoe facility and allowed interim City Manager Valerie Barone to execute a no-bid construction contract […]
Read more
By Sarah Tilton, Wall Street Journal Venture capitalist Steven Stull and his wife, Claire, have paid $11.875 million for a waterfront home in Incline Village, according to public records. The roughly 10,000-square-foot home sits on 0.82 acre with 100 feet of shoreline. The house has five bedrooms, five bathrooms, two half-bathrooms, an elevator, a wine […]
Read more
By Monte Morin, Los Angeles Times Rebecca Johnson was 27 years old and had just graduated from medical school when she got the diagnosis: breast cancer. She thought she was a rare case, but then a few of her friends got it too. So did some friends of friends. Was it all just a coincidence, […]
Read more
Student activists organized by California Fair Share gathered at Rep. Tom McClintock’s district office in Granite Bay on Feb. 28 to call on him to stop the sequester by closing corporate tax loopholes. The students unfurled and gave the Republican congressman the 100-foot banner constructed from more than 600 petition signatures. “Hundreds of citizens and […]
Read more
By Max Klinger, New York Times TRUCKEE — The snowboarder Jeremy Jones arrived at the Atomfjella Mountains on Svalbard, an island above the Arctic Circle, after 30 hours of tundra crossing on a rattling snowmobile convoy in April 2011. He had invited Terje Haakonsen, known in the snowboarding world for his ability to ride almost […]
Read more
By USSA GARMISCH-PARTENKIRCHEN, Germany — World Championship super G bronze medalist Julia Mancuso (Squaw Valley) solidified herself as a contender for the 2013 Audi FIS Alpine World Cup super G title after tying for second Friday with overall leader Tina Maze of Slovenia. Mancuso sits 65 points behind Maze in the title chase with two […]
Read more
If you don’t see Lake Tahoe News‘ ski reporter Curtis Fong on the ski slopes today, check him out at tonight’s Dancing with Your Stars at 7 at MontBleu in Stateline. Here is Fong’s March 1 ski report.
Read more
When you see an emergency vehicle either coming from behind or toward you with its red lights and siren sounding, please give the right-of-way to that ambulance, fire truck, or police car by pulling over to the right side of the road and stopping. Even if you are in the center turn lane, it’s the […]
Read more