By Yitka, Outdoor You’re hiking through a grove of spruce trees on the Pacific Crest Trail when you hear voices up ahead. Fifty yards away you spot a few pop-up tents and several dozen people hanging out, cheering. They offer you a cold soda and some chips and cookies. They’re hosting a trail running race, […]
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By Kathryn Reed After years of talking about linking Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows, the talk is over and the doing is about to begin. Plans are expected to be submitted to the U.S. Forest Service and Placer County this summer. It’s too soon to predict construction and completion dates. “There are currently no plans […]
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By Kathryn Reed Extra time. It’s something motorists will need more of this summer because of all the road related work occurring in the Lake Tahoe Basin this summer. With the weather being unseasonably dry, the work is already beginning. Some of the work is on state highways, other is on municipal streets, bike paths […]
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By Tom Randall, Bloomberg The California heat of the past 12 months is like nothing ever seen in records going back to 1895. The 12 months before that were similarly without precedent. And the 12 months before that? A freakishly hot year, too. What’s happening in California right now is shattering modern temperature measurements — […]
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By Kathryn Reed Eclectic. That is the word the director of the Valhalla Art, Theatre and Music Festival is using to describe the 2015 season. Evangeline Elston is returning for her second year as leader of this nearly 40-year-old South Shore tradition. As with years past, there will be a mix of offerings for a […]
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By Zocalo This weekend, tens of thousands – maybe even nearly 100,000 – music fans are rocking out at the Coachella Music and Arts Festival in Indio. With multiple stages going full-blast, festival-goers will face difficult decisions such as: Should I catch the soulful roots-rockers Alabama Shakes or the haunting Swedish singer-songwriter Lykke Li? Should […]
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By James Nash, Bloomberg Reno, Nevada, a town that built an economy on quickie divorces, is mapping out the second act of its American life. Faded casinos are being reborn as condominium towers. Discarded cardboard and wood — even junked cars — are being fashioned into gigantic pieces of art for the annual Burning Man […]
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By Kathryn Reed The Tahoe Princess looked like anything but royalty as it sat Friday afternoon on the Tahoe Keys Marina boat ramp. “A hydraulic line busted when we pulled it,” Vincent Vernaza told Lake Tahoe News. Vernaza recently purchased the pontoon tour boat from Aramark. His plans are to overhaul the vessel and return […]
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By Philip Ross, International Business Times Marijuana legalization is once again lighting up California politics. The country’s largest state, along with Arizona and Nevada, has a ballot measure in the works to get legal weed before voters next November. Advocates of legalization in California say if they can get marijuana to the polls in 2016, […]
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By Anne Knowles CARSON CITY— The Carson City Freeway project to connect Interstate 580 to Highway 50, creating a nearly seamless drive from Reno-Tahoe International Airport to the South Shore, is entering its final phase this summer. The Nevada Department of Transportation is expected to award the contract to Road and Highway Builders, the Spark-based […]
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