By Anne Knowles If you’re wondering if you saw a white boat with wheels drive off Highway 50 into Lake Tahoe sometime this summer, you did. And if you’re wondering if it’s legal, it is. Tahoe Duck Tours, in its first full summer of operations, is offering daily, multiple hour-plus tours of the lake on […]
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Publisher’s note: This is the second of a two-part series about South Lake Tahoe’s fiscal situation. By Kathryn Reed Fixed incomes and health care payments are beginning to clash for South Lake Tahoe retirees. As retirees, most of their retirement checks are set. Not so when it comes to health care benefits. They get what […]
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Publisher’s note: This is the first of two stories about South Lake Tahoe’s fiscal situation. By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe has 43 days to figure out how to close a $5.2 million budget deficit. That’s the start of the next fiscal – Oct. 1. The reality is the deadline is 25 days from now […]
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By Kathryn Reed Tennis doesn’t get talked about much as a reason for tourists to visit the South Shore, while Tahoe City and Truckee are a draw for people looking for good courts. Maybe it has something to do with the quality of and accessibility to courts in and around the Lake Tahoe Basin that […]
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By Kathryn Reed HOMEWOOD – Money and cooperation were the overriding themes of the 15th annual Lake Tahoe Environmental Summit on Tuesday at Homewood Mountain Resort. For the first time since then-President Bill Clinton started these summits, the governors of California and Nevada attended the event. But it was Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., who was […]
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By Kathryn Reed Don’t be surprised if competitors in next month’s Iron Girl triathlon have better times than they did at the inaugural event in 2010. This could happen because of three classes designed with the Sept. 18 South Lake Tahoe event in mind. The swim clinic, tri interval speed clinic, and tri circuit workshop […]
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By Susan Wood STATELINE – A relaxing weekend getaway featuring a Keb Mo concert, urban walk, jaunt to a new state park and pool time at the Forest Suites Resort proved there’s more than one way to enjoy the home we call Lake Tahoe. “More than One Way Home” is but one track off Mo’s […]
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By Kathryn Reed Pretty face, cow parsnips, California valerian, forget-me-nots, lupine, columbine, Indian paintbrush, larkspur, groundsel – these are just some of the flowers flourishing in a kaleidoscope of color along the trail to Dardanelles Lake. It’s helpful to have someone on the trail telling you what you’re looking at instead of just saying – […]
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By Katherine E. Hill Lake Tahoe’s world-renowned water clarity dropped 3.7 feet in 2010 from 68.1 feet to 64.4 feet, the second-lowest clarity level ever recorded. The drop in clarity is the result of climate change and increased algae growth, according to the UC Davis Tahoe Environmental Research Center in the annual State of the […]
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By Katherine E. Hill The nonprofit Tahoe Fund will announce funding for its first basin project at a fundraising dinner on Lake Tahoe’s West Shore next week. The Tahoe Fund, formed about a year ago, plans to raise much-needed funds for projects in the Lake Tahoe Basin identified by TRPA’s environmental improvement program that would […]
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