By Kathryn Reed Hiking Angora Ridge just got better thanks to a bunch of mountain bikers and the U.S. Forest Service. No longer do people have to contend with vehicles or be on pavement to reach Angora Lakes. The nonprofit Tahoe Area Mountain Biking Association partnered with the federal land owner to build a trail […]
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By Kathryn Reed If you thought Thanksgiving at Lake Tahoe was hot, you were right. And it had nothing to do with what was going on in the kitchen. South Lake Tahoe’s high of 65 degrees broke the record of 63 that had been standing since 1995. People were in shorts, and those at Zephyr […]
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By David R. Baker, San Francisco Chronicle Most years, the amount of greenhouse gases spewed by California’s cars, factories and power plants drops slightly — a hard-won result of the state’s fight against global warming. And in any given year, one big wildfire can wipe out that progress. Over the course of just a few […]
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By Kathryn Reed Power outages are never fun. And when the problem isn’t obvious, it’s worse for everyone – including the crews tasked with solving the issue. Last weekend a swath of the Tahoe Keys was without power. A transformer had gone out in this South Lake Tahoe neighborhood. It needed it replacing. The problem […]
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By Vicki Gonzalez, KCRA-TV The aftermath of relentless winter storms can still be seen throughout El Dorado County, after a series of destructive systems crippled dozens of locations at the start of 2017. “It was a year none of us have really ever seen up here,” John Kahling, with the El Dorado County Department of […]
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By Kathryn Reed CAMP RICHARDSON – Roads in and around the Lake Tahoe Basin seem to be in a perpetual evolution. Local historian Dave Borges took a group on a ride through transportation lore at a presentation this month at Camp Richardson Resort. The Lake Tahoe Historical Society talk went from the 1800s to today. […]
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By Samantha N.N. Cross, Iowa State University I have always been intrigued by Thanksgiving – the traditions, the meal, the idea of a holiday that is simply about being thankful. For my family, Thanksgiving is all about the food. Some foods, like turkey and mashed potatoes, may be familiar. But there are a few twists. […]
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By Jonathan Erdman, Weather Channel Global temperatures are on pace to make 2017 the second warmest year in 137 years of record keeping, according analyses by NASA and the Japanese Meteorological Agency. October 2017 was the second warmest October in records dating to 1880, according to data released by NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Only […]
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By Joaquin Palomino and Kimberly Veklerov, San Francisco Chronicle In the early hours of the most destructive firestorm in California history, officials in Napa and Sonoma counties knew their local first responders would be overwhelmed and turned to a statewide mutual-aid system designed to swiftly bring in support crews from other regions to protect homes […]
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By Kathryn Reed It was a bit of a grade-school level civics lesson for those who sat through the South Lake Tahoe mayor’s address on Tuesday. It was not about laying a path for the future. It wasn’t about what the council has done in his one year holding the gavel. It wasn’t about how […]
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