A 29-year-old Olympic Valley man caught in an avalanche Thursday near Alpine Meadows has died from his injuries at Tahoe Forest Hospital in Truckee. Benjamin Brackett was skiing with two friends March 1 when they triggered the slide. They were climbing with skins on their skis about 500 vertical feet below Stanford Rock when the […]
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By Kathryn Reed Anti-parking meter advocates have won. At least for now. “I don’t think parking is off the table, but it is off the table for the moment,” South Lake Tahoe Mayor Claire Fortier told Lake Tahoe News. The City Council was expected to vote on the issue March 6. Now it won’t be […]
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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 Michael Doyle, McClatchy WASHINGTON – The House on Wednesday approved an ambitious California water bill that favors farmers, splits the state and pressures the U.S. Senate. In a highly partisan vote, the Republican-controlled House approved the legislation that would lengthen irrigation contracts, override state law and boost deliveries to farms south of the Sacramento-San […]
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Updated: March 1 7:25pm By Kathryn Reed Three skiers in the backcountry near Alpine Meadows triggered an avalanche Thursday that caused one man to be brought out in a basket by a rescue team. The names of the three have not been released. They were climbing with skins on their skis about 500 vertical feet […]
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By Kathryn Reed An autopsy Feb. 29 on twin sisters who had lived in South Lake Tahoe since the 1970s revealed nothing suspicious about their deaths. However, exact cause of death is still pending. The names of the two 73-year-olds will be released when identification is conclusive. El Dorado County sheriff’s volunteers did a welfare […]
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By Brian Duggan, Reno Gazette-Journal The Nevada Supreme Court is requiring the State Board of Equalization to stage public hearings over creating a uniform way for all Nevada counties to assess property values. The action is the result of a unanimous court decision on Friday in favor of Incline Village property taxpayers, collectively known as […]
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With a forecast of more snow for most of Thursday, officials from Lake Tahoe Unified and Tahoe Truckee Unified school districts have canceled classes for today. Lake Tahoe Community College is open. A winter storm advisory is in effect for the Lake Tahoe Basin through noon March 1. The heaviest snow is expected to taper […]
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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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