By Kathryn Reed Refinancing the South Shore recreation bond will put more money into the pot to be spent on facilities. That was the message delivered to the South Lake Tahoe City Council this week and what the board that oversees Measure S/R will hear this morning. Financial advisor Mark Northcross with Northcross-Hill-Ach in Marin […]
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By Kathryn Reed ZEPHYR COVE – Would students or parents want to be at Whittell High School if it were to return to five days a week? That was an overriding question by some of the more than 40 people who attended a 90-minute workshop Thursday night regarding whether the 7-12 school should stay with […]
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By Sean Whaley, Nevada News Bureau CARSON CITY — Nevada voters can now be better informed with the Wednesday launch of Aurora, a user-friendly, searchable database for all campaign and public officer finance disclosures, Secretary of State Ross Miller said. Aurora, which can be accessed directly through the Secretary of State’s homepage, provides a new […]
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By Kathryn Reed South Lake Tahoe essentially won its case in which the League to Save Lake Tahoe sued to try to stop the General Plan from being a legal working document. U.S. District Court Judge Garland Burrell on Thursday dismissed the case that was filed last year after the City Council voted to approve […]
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By ESPN Action Sports SALT LAKE CITY — Canadian freestyle skier Sarah Burke died Thursday, nine days after crashing at the bottom of the superpipe during a training run in Utah. Burke, who lived near Whistler in British Columbia, was 29. She was injured Jan. 11 while training at a personal sponsor event at the […]
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By Kathryn Reed A 34-year-old man from England died at Heavenly Mountain Resort on Tuesday after running into a sign. “He was probably skiing faster than he should have and tried to avoid a skier and left the run and the hit marker,” El Dorado County sheriff’s Lt. Les Lovell told Lake Tahoe News. Christopher […]
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By Steven Bell, Westmorland Gazette A former mountain rescue volunteer plunged 150 feet to his death Saturday at one of the world’s most popular climbing destinations in Lake Tahoe. Outdoor loving Michael Machell, 23, fell at Cascade Falls after slipping while preparing for an ice-climbing trip with friends. Greg Almos, El Dorado County deputy sheriff, […]
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By Kathryn Reed If a picture is worth a thousand words, what are an artist’s tools worth? South Lake Tahoe officials may soon have to answer that question. Artist Peter Darvas won his appeal before the South Lake Tahoe City Council this week – meaning he won’t have to pay the $3,437.50 abatement fine. But […]
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By Jeff Delong, Reno Gazette-Journal Scientists are beginning new research into how a warming climate could affect water supplies and flooding along the Truckee River, the waterway that serves as one of the region’s central natural features and the source of most of its water. The $1.7 million study by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation […]
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The first of two storms heading for the Lake Tahoe Basin is expected to strike Thursday afternoon. The stronger of the two is forecast to arrive late Friday afternoon. Locations above 7,000 are expected to get the brunt of the storms. The National Weather Service in Reno has issued a winter weather advisory for the […]
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