By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – Hanging on and letting go at the same. Free, yet harnessed in. Remote wilderness, but modern safety features. For a brief moment the world seems to stand still, and yet it’s whirring by at 40 mph. Welcome to the world of ziplining. While there was a time when this swinging […]
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By Jenny Kane, Reno Gazette-Journal The four Reno dispensaries licensed to sell recreational marijuana each raked in “hundreds of thousands of dollars” in the past four days from the state’s first legal recreational marijuana sales, according to Will Adler, executive director of the Sierra Cannabis Coalition. The Nevada Department of Taxation will not release numbers for state revenue […]
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By Sam Whiting, San Francisco Chronicle Bill Evers, a San Francisco attorney who co-founded the League to Save Lake Tahoe and served as head of the San Francisco Mayor’s Office of Economic Development under George Moscone and Dianne Feinstein, has died. Mr. Evers died June 28 at his home in Pacific Heights after a short […]
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By Kathryn Reed Traffic issues was one of the dominating topics at the “coffee with a cop” event on the South Shore. “We are actively trying to come up with solutions that will work,” CHP Lt. Cmdr. Terry Lowther told Lake Tahoe News. “We are looking at where we can legally close roadways to funnel […]
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By Karen Weise, Bloomberg “Are you with Tesla or Panasonic?” the waitress asks with a smile. It’s morning in Reno, and it’s natural to assume anyone eating breakfast among the rustic wood walls and Instagram-worthy succulents of the Whitney Peak Hotel would work at the mammoth Tesla Gigafactory, jointly run by the two tech companies. […]
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By Maya L. Kapoor, High Country News Over three months in 2016, the Soberanes fire burned 132,127 acres of Central California’s coast, blazing through dry swaths of dense chaparral, mixed hardwood timber and redwoods. Costing $260 million to suppress, it became the most expensive fire in the country’s history. And it wasn’t caused by lightning, which […]
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By Susan Wood Julliard, it’s not. But the American Legion Hall on Wednesday nights has become the main stage for South Shore ukulelians seeking fun, friendship and a unified front for an activity that has struck a chord with many aspiring musicians. It’s almost as if the 60-plus people gathered in Tahoe may strum their […]
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By Kathryn Reed Even though there is less actual beach in the basin, those using it keep leaving the same amount of trash. For the past three years volunteers have picked up about 1,600 pounds of trash on July 5 – the day after the busiest day of the year for Tahoe beaches. This doesn’t […]
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By Amelia Pak-Harvey, Las Vegas Review-Journal Worst in the nation. Or, at least, among the worst. That’s the reputation of Nevada’s K-12 public education system. The label hangs over teachers who come to work here, over every test score — even over some students, who are keenly aware of the status of their public […]
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By Susan Wood Just look around. After winter’s peaks and valleys, visitors from the San Francisco Bay Area to the far reaches of the planet appear on track to bask on Lake Tahoe’s shores and mountains. South Lake Tahoe transient occupancy tax collections shot up as early as April this year to $744,565, amounting to […]
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