By Kendra Pierre-Louis, New York Times Jessie Diggins fell in love with snow as a child. Diggins is a member of the U.S. women’s cross-country skiing team, which is favored to win a medal at the PyeongChang Olympics. It would be only the second medal in the sport for the United States and the first […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe city officials appear to be operating in a vacuum of lawlessness and deceit, and with no transparency. A special City Council meeting has been scheduled for Feb. 12 at 9am. The only item on the agenda is in closed session: Public employee discipline/dismissal/release. The council is only in charge […]
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By Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle As relentless sunshine continued to pound California on Thursday, the Sierra Nevada hit a reckoning point: There’s less snowpack now than on the same date three years ago, when the winter went down as the driest in recorded history and sent shudders through cities, farmlands and the state Capitol. […]
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By Kathryn Reed Like all athletes, even skiers need coaches. Maddie Bowman and David Wise, who in the next two weeks will try to defend their Olympic gold medals, credit Andy Woods for some of their success. Woods was first named as a coach to the U.S. Freeskiing Halfpipe Team in 2011. This was in […]
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By Emily Cadei, Sacramento Bee Washington Forestry experts have a dire warning for California: the conditions are ripe for more catastrophic fire seasons like the one last fall. And an arcane federal funding arrangement is making it a lot harder for forestry officials to do something about it. Instead of fixing the problem, however, Congress […]
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By Nate Newman, The Conversation Every two years, billions of people watch athletes at the Olympics compete to be crowned world champion. What the viewer doesn’t see are the athletes’ behind-the-scenes preparation, which includes trying to figure out new ways to give them an edge in the biggest event of their career. Different treatment methods […]
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By Jim Krajewski, Reno Gazette-Journal She’s gone from being the wide-eyed newcomer to the wily veteran on the U.S. Ski Team. But now, Stacey Cook knows her competitive ski racing career is nearing the end and she is cherishing each moment. Cook, who was born in Truckee and lives in Reno part-time, will compete in her fourth […]
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By Dan Elliott, AP From its headquarters in Washington, D.C., the U.S. Bureau of Land Management oversees some of the nation’s most prized natural resources: vast expanses of public lands rich in oil, gas, coal, grazing for livestock, habitat for wildlife, hunting ranges, fishing streams and hiking trails. But more than 99 percent of that […]
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By Kathryn Reed After a marathon closed session Tuesday, it was decided South Lake Tahoe City Manager Nancy Kerry would take some time off. Kerry told LTN she was planning to take a couple weeks off. Mayor Wendy David would not say whose choice it was for the time off – the council’s or Kerry’s. […]
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By Benjamin Spillman, Reno Gazette-Journal Human-induced climate change could make future winter Olympics risky business for some of the world’s likeliest host venues. That’s according to published research by scientists who studied 21 former and potential future winter Olympics venues. They found that by mid-century, as many as 10 former venues, including Lake Tahoe and Vancouver, […]
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