By Kathryn Reed Say goodbye to the Horizon. While it isn’t going to be bulldozed, it is going to be gutted after the lease with LV Casino LLC expires March 31. Taking over operations is Warner Hospitality Group out of Las Vegas. The company is under contract with the owners to remodel the dilapidated Stateline […]
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By Jason Dearen, AP ST. HELENA — With California in the grips of drought, farmers throughout the state are using a mysterious and some say foolhardy tool for locating underground water: dowsers, or water witches. Practitioners of dowsing use rudimentary tools — usually copper sticks or wooden “divining rods” that resemble large wishbones — and […]
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By AP RENO -— In a lifetime spent under the hood, Reno’s Everett Adams has quietly built an encyclopedic knowledge of engines and a museum’s worth of cars, boats, airplanes and memorabilia. Adams, 80, has had a hand in the restoration and recreations of some world famous motorized machines — ranging from George Whittell’s famed […]
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By Kathryn Reed SnowGlobe promoters want a multi-year contract and for the city to pony up more money. The South Lake Tahoe City Council on March 4 will talk about whether the reported $6 million the three-day music festival brings into the region is worth the trade-offs. 2013 was the third year the event has […]
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By Molly K. Hooper and Jasmine Sachar, The Hill Republican lawmakers in Congress are lukewarm on a conservative-backed proposal to split California into six states. Republicans from the Golden State say they are watching conservative venture capitalist Tim Draper’s effort with “great interest.” But few are endorsing it. In a recent survey of the California […]
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By Aidan Lewis, BBC News Slopestyle skiers made a successful debut at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, eliciting gasps with their stunts and jumps. Many miles away in northern parts of the U.S., a growing number of skiers use city settings to perform and film similar tricks. They scope out urban landscapes to find rails […]
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By Kathryn Reed Fifteen South Tahoe Middle School students proved their generation could express themselves in more than 140 characters. And they can do so about serious topics. Soroptimist International Tahoe Sierra honored the students last week at the annual Writing Festival awards breakfast. These aren’t all overachievers. Some are English learners, other are average […]
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By Jeremy Miller It’s finally here! The Oscar season draws to a close Sunday night, with many of us sitting and watching Hollywood’s elite gather for the 86th Academy Awards. Of the last five years, this year is by and far the most unpredictable. This year we have an extremely widespread variety, especially when it […]
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By Daniel Rothman, Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON — With a Syrian chemical weapons attack that killed more than 1,000 civilians, violent crackdowns against protesters in Turkey and Ukraine and a string of anti-gay laws from Russia to Uganda, human rights abuses last year ranked among the worst in years, the State Department concluded Thursday in […]
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By Bill Kingman and Kathryn Reed The worst plane crash in Lake Tahoe’s history was 50 years ago on March 1, 1964, when all 85 people on board the Paradise Airlines flight died. They were coming from the Bay Area to Lake Tahoe Airport, then known as Tahoe Valley Airport, in South Lake Tahoe when […]
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