By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – Ten ideas to provide year-round transportation linking the North and South shores have been whittled to three, with two involving ferry service and one a bus route. Advocates believe a ferry on Lake Tahoe could provide 3,500 daily boardings, operate eight hours a day during the height of summer, take […]
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By Kathryn Reed TWIN BRIDGES – Sierra-at-Tahoe could have been called Bare-at-Tahoe this weekend based on the amount of skin that was showing. After all, South Lake Tahoe broke a record March 4 with a high of 59. The previous record of 58 was set in 1986. Truckee at 61 degrees was three degrees shy […]
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By Kathryn Reed Strap on a helmet and skip the wilderness, Bijou Community Park may be the place to mountain bike. About 4 acres of this South Lake Tahoe park off Al Tahoe Boulevard may become home of the Bijou Bike Park. Proponents would like to build the pump track and kids skill zone this […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE – Generating room nights. That’s the overall goal of the Lake Tahoe Visitors Authority. If the South Shore tourism agency can get people to spend the night, it means hotel taxes for Douglas County and South Lake Tahoe, probably sales tax for both entities, and those same people spending dollars in […]
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By Kathryn Reed ECHO SUMMIT — A true old-style mountain lodge is about to open in Lake Tahoe. Through large pane windows expansive views of rugged Sierra peaks are visible. A woodstove flanks one wall, ready to get people warm. This isn’t some newfangled structure designed to look old. This is the lodge that was […]
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By Kathryn Reed The Tahoe Regional Planning Agency must use better science and environmental analysis to prove increasing the number of buoys and piers in Lake Tahoe will not harm the alpine waters. Although it was the TRPA that essentially was on the winning side of a decision that came out of the Ninth Circuit […]
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By Kathryn Reed Stabilized is the word being used to describe what is going on with the clarity of Lake Tahoe. It took $1.5 billion to get to that point. That is the amount of money spent, according to the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, on environmental improvement projects between the inception of the program in […]
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By Kathryn Reed The hole – as the 11-plus acre site on the state line in South Lake Tahoe is known – is out of bankruptcy. After a 4½-hour hearing Wednesday in Sacramento, the judge dismissed the case. “We are definitely in a better place because we don’t have to get approval from the bankruptcy […]
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Location Elevation Snow Depth Water Content % of Long Term Average Alpha 7,600 feet 19.4 inches 4.9 inches 18 Phillips Station 6,800 feet 17.7 inches 3.9 inches 16 Lyons Creek 6,700 feet 30.5 inches 8.3 inches 33 Tamarack Flat 6,500 feet 24 inches 6 inches 26 Source: DWR By Kathryn Reed PHILLIPS STATION – “In California […]
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By Kathryn Reed A South Lake Tahoe man had time to call 911, but not enough time to escape the fire that engulfed the bedroom of his trailer. Glenn Sauls, 82, was found by firefighters and paramedics in his trailer at 1080 Julie Lane about 2:30am Feb. 5. He later died at Barton Memorial Hospital […]
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