By Anjeanette Damon, Reno Gazette-Journal Five years ago, Washoe County handed 87 parcels of land over to the Incline Village General Improvement District, forgiving more than $800,000 in unpaid property taxes on the land in exchange for a promise from Incline Village to use the land as publicly owned open space. The lots, most of them […]
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By Kathryn Reed SnowGlobe is already irritating people and the loud bass that permeates the otherwise tranquil night air of South Lake Tahoe hasn’t even started. A section of Al Tahoe Boulevard, one of the major thoroughfares in town, is going to be closed the better part of the three days of the music festival. […]
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By Kathryn Reed Diversifying the types of people coming to the South Shore and the reasons they do so is a goal of local business owners and tourism officials. Lake Tahoe Visitors Authority is making a concerted effort to attract more conventions/meetings to the area. This in turn will ideally put more heads in beds […]
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By Doug Puppel and Nikole Robinson Carroll, Nevada Public Radio After being declared nearly extinct in Nevada in 1979, black bears have staged a comeback in the state, with a population today numbering in the hundreds. Fanning out east and south from Lake Tahoe, bears are repopulating the Great Basin ranges that hunting, logging, and encroaching […]
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By Jenny Kane, Reno Gazette-Journal California ski towns are going to have to wait a little longer for recreational marijuana. On Jan. 1, adults 21 and over will be allowed to possess up to one ounce of recreational marijuana in California, but most ski towns in Northern California won’t allow sales of retail product yet. […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – Violence on New Year’s Eve at Stateline used to be the norm. People were struck by flying Champagne bottles. One year someone was shot. Disobedience ruled. At the peak about 100,000 people filled the casino corridor – many of them underage. Closing Highway 50 at the bewitching hour and then […]
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By Alexandra Spychalsky, Moonshine Ink It’s no secret that Tahoe is rife with professional athletes, both current and retired, but it may surprise some to learn that a number of local businesses, from long-standing staples to new companies just taking off, have former elite athletes at the helm. The decision to leave a professional run […]
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By Associated Press AAS-FEE, Switzerland — The athletes’ half-hour commute in the Swiss Alps — up two gondolas, then through a tunnel in the world’s highest underground train to a glacier at 11,000 feet — served up daily grim reminders that global warming is threatening their line of work. After exiting the train, they squelched […]
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By Kathryn Reed CARSON CITY – Less than a minute. That’s how fast a dry Christmas tree can be reduced to charred pine needles. Most people will start to dismantle their tree in a week or so. Now is when trees start drying out, potentially creating a disastrous scene that could ruin the holiday in […]
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By Greg M. Peters, Forests Magazine Tucked into the Douglas fir and ponderosa pine forests of Northern Idaho sits the quaint lakeside town of Coeur d’Alene. The former lumber town is now a popular tourist destination drawing families from across the Pacific Northwest and beyond. Gone are the pounding mills, replaced with fancy lakefront hotels […]
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