By Brenda Knox and Kathryn Reed PHILLIPS STATION — With the amount of snow that has fallen and the sudden meltdown of it, people living in Lake Tahoe know there is plenty of water in that white stuff. Officials from the California Department of Water Resources made it official Tuesday. The measurements taken March 1 […]
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Publisher’s note: Jeffrey Halperin of San Francisco has been identified as the snowboarder. By FoxReno.com TRUCKEE — Officials confirmed that an unidentified 30-year-old man was killed Sunday while snowboarding at Northstar-at-Tahoe. According to a press release issued Monday afternoon by Northstar Spokeswoman Jessica Van Pernis, ski patrollers and officials with the Northstar Fire Department were […]
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Pete Thomas, GrindTV Pro freeskier Ryan Hawks died early Tuesday of injuries suffered during an extreme competition in Northern California. He was 25 and a rising star in the sometimes dangerous sport of big-mountain freeskiing. Hawks, a Utah resident originally from Vermont, had had been attempting a 40-foot backflip Sunday during the North American Freeskiing […]
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Publisher’s note: Sue Schlerf is a former assistant city manager of South Lake Tahoe. By Susan Voyles, Reno Gazette-Journal Practicing what it had just preached, the Reno City Council today rejected an offer from one assistant city manager to serve as interim manager for the next six months after he wanted a raise for the […]
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Updated: Feb. 28 8:35pm. By Sam Stanton, Sacramento Bee Phillip and Nancy Garrido have made a “full confession” to the 1991 kidnapping of 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard in hopes of convincing prosecutors to allow Nancy Garrido to some day be released from prison, a defense attorney in the case revealed today. Nancy Garrido’s court-appointed lawyer, […]
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Nancy Gibson is returning to the basin as forest supervisor for the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit. She was deputy forest supervisor several years ago. Second in charge will be Jeff Marsolais. The start date for both has not been released. For the last three years, Gibson has been deputy forest supervisor on the Six […]
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By Sam Stanton, Sacramento Bee The judge in the Jaycee Lee Dugard kidnap case today rejected efforts by the media to have court documents unsealed, including a grand jury transcript, in which Dugard described her 18 years of captivity. El Dorado Superior Court Judge Douglas Phimister said he had reviewed more than two dozen of […]
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By Guy Clifton, Reno Gazette-Journal Nevada’s population shift to Southern Nevada will be reflected in the redrawing of representative districts, but whether it means seats will be added in the state Legislature for the first time in 30 years or whether Northern Nevada loses seats remains to be seen. With Democrats in control of the […]
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By Todd Woody, New York Times SAN FRANCISCO — Just weeks after regulators approved the last of nine multibillion-dollar solar thermal power plants to be built in the Southern California desert, a storm of lawsuits and the resurgence of an older solar technology are clouding the future of the nascent industry. The litigation, which seeks […]
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By Kathryn Reed TWIN BRIDGES — Some ski areas in Lake Tahoe are discovering there are consequences to too much snow. And that would be not enough parking to cater to all those people who want to ski and snowboard. A sign at the base of Echo Summit on Highway 50 warns people that traveling […]
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