By Dan Walters, Sacramento Bee The legislative session that reconvened this month faces no shortage of big issues, but underlying all of them is demographic change that is dramatically altering the face of California. New data frame the change: • Recent reports from the U.S. Census Bureau and the state Department of Finance agree that […]
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By Adam Nagourney, New York Times STOCKTON — Matthew R. Davies graduated from college with a master’s degree in business and a taste for enterprise, working in real estate, restaurants and mobile home parks before seizing on what he saw as uncharted territory with a vast potential for profits — medical marijuana. Federal agents raided […]
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Tahoe Douglas firefighters were able to keep a chimney fire from spreading to the rest of the house Monday night. The call came in about 6pm Jan. 14 that a house in the Skyland area was on fire. “This was extinguished without damage to the structure,” Fire Marshal Eric Guevin told Lake Tahoe News. He […]
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By Kathryn Reed After three days of record-breaking low temperatures, many pipes in the Lake Tahoe Basin had enough and started doing some breaking of their own. The four major casinos in the Stateline casino corridor have all had burst pipes. The damage started Jan. 13 at Horizon when a pipe near the loading dock […]
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A 52-year-old Truckee man was arrested Saturday on domestic violence charges. Truckee officers responded to a 911 call for assistance from a female on Beacon Way on Jan. 11. She had been involved in a physical struggle with the suspect. Police were called back to the residence the next day. Officers contacted the original victim […]
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IHOP is celebrating National Pancake Day on Feb. 5 by giving out free pancakes. It’s also a day to raise money for Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals. The goal is to raise $3 million. During National Pancake Day more than 1,500 IHOP restaurants — including South Lake Tahoe — invite guests to enjoy a complimentary stack […]
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A full moon yurt dinner on Jan. 25 and Jan. 26 is a fundraiser for the Winter Discovery Center at Tahoe Cross Country. Douglas Dale of Wolfdale’s will be the chef both nights. The evening adventure starts with a moonlit ski or snowshoe from the Tahoe Cross Country Ski Area to the trailside warming hut […]
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South Tahoe has had overnight lows of below zero for several days. Twenty years ago, in January 1993, we hit minus 28 degrees in South Tahoe. Emerald Bay froze over. That occurred also in February 1989 at minus 29. At such temperatures, many frozen pipes and subsequent water damage wouldn’t be realized until those cracked […]
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By Malia Wollan, New York Times Deep in the Sierra Nevada, 39 trillion gallons of crystalline water straddles the border between California and Nevada. That water, Lake Tahoe, can be as smooth as glass, but the politics of land-use planning along the lake’s 72-mile shoreline are some of the most contentious and muddled in the […]
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Cold temps keep the snow in good condition. And it’s still really cold in Lake Tahoe. Here is the Jan. 14 ski report. — Curtis Fong
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