• Robin Williams will be at MontBleu in Stateline July 20-21. • Longtime guru of El Dorado County’s transportation department – Tom Celio – has retired. • Squaw Valley’s Brews, Jazz & Funk Fest returns Aug. 11-12 benefiting the Humane Society of Truckee-Tahoe. • South Lake Tahoe’s Planning Commission on July 12 at 3pm at […]
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The Live at Lakeview Summer Music Series continues tonight with bluegrass band Fruition playing from 4:30-8:30pm at Lakeview Commons,Highway 50 and Lakeview Ave. The series runs through Sept. 26 and features a different style of live band each week and include jazz, blues, reggae, bluegrass and Latin styles. The event is free.
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By Howard Stutz, Las Vegas Review-Journal Two of the state’s largest slot machine manufacturers received Nevada’s first interactive gaming licenses in June. Regulators could license three more suppliers this month. Another 30-plus casino operators and gaming equipment providers have interactive license applications on file with the Gaming Control Board. If all goes as planned, gaming […]
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Imagine sipping a big, bold El Dorado County wine, perfectly paired with fare from the region’s best chefs, prepared with fresh seasonal produce grown within a 100 miles from where you stand. This is what Sample the Sierra is all about. Now in its third year, this farm-to-fork festival celebrates food, wine, and art in […]
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By Christopher Smith, Los Angeles Times How was that little vacation you took? You remember. It cost you almost nothing, it burned some calories (or, after that ice cream cone, added a few) and briefly immersed you in quintessential California. It was that walk on a pier, those structures that stretch out like a gateway […]
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Publisher’s note: This is the first of three stories looking at the past, present and future of Lake Tahoe Airport. By Joann Eisenbrandt South Lake Tahoe wants commercial airline service to return to Lake Tahoe Airport. This isn’t news, but it’s moved to the forefront with the expiration this October of the 1992 Lake Tahoe […]
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By Edward Ortiz, Sacramento Bee It isn’t every day you get to fight the nation’s largest fire and meet the president. That’s what happened to Placerville resident and firefighter Matt McKurtis and other members of the Eldorado National Forest and Lake Tahoe Basin firefighting units of the U.S. Forest Service, who are working the fire […]
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By Karen Ravn, Special to the Los Angeles Times It’s a conundrum. You want to have fun in the sun, but you don’t want skin cancer or — heaven forbid! — wrinkles. Maybe you think you have it made in the shade with sunscreen. But while most sun and skin experts would advise you to […]
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By Anne Knowles If you arrived for the start of the holiday parade at Stateline past 10:15am, you were in for a letdown. South Lake Tahoe’s inaugural Fourth of July parade started on time and ended quickly. The parade began promptly at 10am and the 30 or so participating vehicles traveled a two-mile stretch of […]
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By Nina Chestney, Reuters Rising sea levels cannot be stopped over the next several hundred years, even if deep emissions cuts lower global average temperatures, but they can be slowed down, climate scientists said in a study on Sunday. A lot of climate research shows that rising greenhouse gas emissions are responsible for increasing global […]
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