By Susan Wood PARK CITY, Utah – Despite a war of words between the United States and North Korea, U.S. Olympic officials and winter athletes all but shrugged off the danger of a nuclear threat affecting the Games in South Korea in February. Team USA and representatives from the PyeongChang Games on Sept. 25 discussed […]
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By Alastair Bland, Water Deeply Around California, the country and the world, reservoirs are silently filling with sediment, and only a few people are thinking about it. Among them is Tim Randle, a civil engineer with the United States Bureau of Reclamation’s Sedimentation and River Hydraulics Group. “We used to be gaining water storage capacity with […]
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By Linda Fine Conaboy INCLINE VILLAGE – Who knew yellow jackets could be so fascinating? But spending time with Lynn Kimsey one blustery evening last week at Sierra Nevada College and listening as she revealed some of the secrets of these pesky critters was almost as entertaining as sitting around a campfire swapping stories. At […]
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By Ally Gravina, Moonshine Ink Every year, thousands of bikes are left scattered throughout the post-Burning Man Playa. This year, however, the number of abandoned bikes was more than double the usual numbers, with an estimated 4,000 left behind. Typically, the process of distributing these bikes to various nonprofit organizations is streamlined and organized. However, […]
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By Megan Michelson, Powder Urh Vodopivec is a 24-year-old ski instructor and student from Slovenia. He’s been traveling to Tahoe the last two summers to work seasonal jobs at restaurants. He’s one of about 300,000 people, many of whom are college students, visiting the U.S. each year on J-1 visas, which are designed as […]
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By Kathryn Reed HOPE VALLEY – Hiking is supposed to be about getting away from the masses and being immersed in nature. That’s why the chaos of Blue Lakes Campground was a bit of a turnoff and caused us to wonder why we were there on Labor Day weekend. Fortunately, the campers seemed to think […]
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By Paul Nelson, KTVN-TV Last winter brought a record amount of precipitation to the Sierra, filling Lake Tahoe almost to the brim. Several feet of water were also released from the Tahoe City Dam to make room for the snow melt. The lake is still in good shape. Tahoe’s level is still more than 5 feet […]
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Publisher’s note: This is one in a series of stories about affordable housing in the Lake Tahoe-Truckee region. All articles may be accessed via the home page under Special Projects, 2017 Affordable Housing. By Kathryn Reed Nearly two years after Vail Resorts announced it would spend $30 million on workforce housing, the financial commitment is […]
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By Susan Wood Water agencies are pressing forward on a proposed work plan designed to outline how to eliminate the contaminant PCE from groundwater near the Y in South Lake Tahoe. Richard Solbrig, South Tahoe Public Utility District general manager, gave his board an update Sept. 21 on treatment of a toxic plume known for […]
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By Kathryn Reed Maybe if seat belts had been mandatory in the 1960s a 29-year-old Lake Valley firefighter would not have died. The July 9, 1964, Tahoe Daily Tribune had a story about Larry Stewart who was a passenger in a pumper tanker driven by James Stephens. They were on their way to a fire […]
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