Six skiers were rescued Sunday just outside Heavenly Mountain Resort’s boundaries. At approximately 1pm, Douglas County Search and Rescue was called out for a lost 16-year-old snowboarder in the Palisades area, off Lower Kingsbury Grade in Stateline. The subject had called 911 via cell phone after unintentionally snowboarding out of bounds at Heavenly when his […]
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Douglas County School District decided not to take any chances today with chains and snow tires required on Kingsbury Grade. Schools at the lake are closed. Most highways in and around the Lake Tahoe Basin have some sort of controls. All schools are also closed in the Tahoe Truckee Unified School District. The National Weather […]
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Lake Tahoe Unified School District board of trustees shuffled administrative positions Tuesday night. With the retirement of Human Resources Director Jim Watson at the end of the school year, it means starting this summer Superintendent Jim Tarwater will be in the district office full time. The district office is also losing the staff development position. […]
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By Kathryn Reed It took a bit of arm-twisting, but South Lake Tahoe Councilman Tom Davis finally acquiesced to colleagues’ desires to go forward with the bike trail from El Dorado Beach to Ski Run Boulevard. “I’m frustrated with the process and amount of money,” Davis said at last week’s council meeting. The issue has […]
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If you notice a large number of public safety units on Spooner Summit on Friday, don’t be alarmed – it’s a drill. The planned scenario will simulate that a small brush fire has started alongside Highway 50, approximately halfway up the grade to Spooner Summit from the Carson City side. It will be simulated that […]
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By Jeff Delong, Reno Gazette-Journal Characterizing the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency as a heavy-handed bureaucracy treading on property rights and overly influenced by California, Nevada lawmakers are seeking to pull the state from the organization. Legislators from Southern Nevada, Washoe County and Douglas County are backing legislation to withdraw Nevada from the Tahoe Regional Planning […]
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By Frank X. Mullen Jr., Reno Gazette-Journal Early Tuesday, Bryce Henderson and Trent Marietta, two experienced back country skiers from Reno, followed nearly all the avalanche safety precautions when they set out for an area called Fireplug near the summit of Mt. Rose Highway. But a wall of snow, 18 inches deep and 200 yards […]
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By Frank X. Mullen, Reno Gazette-Journal The body of a California skier missing since Monday was found Tuesday on a run at the Sugar Bowl Ski Resort, according to the Placer County Sheriff’s Department. Deputies and Ski Patrol members had been searching late Monday and early Tuesday for John Hoffman, 58, of Oakland, who was […]
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Following unexpected challenges to board member attendance as well as the threat of hazardous road conditions, the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency is rescheduling the March 23 hearing on Boulder Bay, as well as everything else on the agenda.
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By Torey Van Oot, Sacramento Bee The dozens of people gathered at a south Sacramento residence on Super Bowl Sunday weren’t there to watch the football championship. They were there, officials say, to watch two roosters battle to the death in an illegal cockfight. That gathering was broken up by Sacramento County sheriff’s deputies, who […]
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