By Tanya Mohn, New York Times Blinking lights, the clicking sound of coins, and perks like free or inexpensive food, drinks and casino bus trips are enticing many older women to gamble. For some people, that seductive environment can be extremely dangerous. “Casinos are trained to make you feel welcome, while you lose your life,” […]
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Updated 5:57pm: A mast has been sticking up offshore from Lakeview Commons for most of the winter. Lake Tahoe News had asked police officers about it; they in turn said the Coast Guard was notified. The choice was to just leave it there for a while. TowBoatUS Lake Tahoe tried to remove the sailboat on […]
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By Kathryn Reed A new neighborhood is about to be erected on the South Shore. With a severe housing shortage in Lake Tahoe, inane rules governing development and tourist accommodations usually what anyone wants to build, this is almost revolutionary. Ten units will be four bedrooms and the remaining 34 will have three bedrooms. Fourteen […]
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The record-breaking winter revealed record-breaking amounts of litter as the snow melted. On May 6, 118 volunteers scoured South Tahoe neighborhoods to help clean it up and kick off the summer with a litter-free town. The groups covered 15 locations, and gathered 1,484 pounds of trash and debris. Volunteers took to the streets around […]
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Monitor Pass is open, but there is still mounds of snow along the sides of this section of Highway 89. The two other key Sierra passes — Tioga and Sonora — remain covered in snow. Crews are working to clear them. Tioga Pass (Highway 120) is the east entrance to Yosemite National Park. Caltrans says […]
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By Kathryn Reed It’s possible Meeks Bay Marina will never see another boat launched there. The rest of the operations at the resort remain open. But what the area will look like in eight years remains to be seen. A settlement agreement is expected to be approved Wednesday by the Lahontan Regional Water Quality Control […]
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By Keith Ridler, AP Crews who battle wildfires will have to wait at least another year before getting better fire shelters than those that failed to save 19 firefighters trapped by flames in Arizona four years ago, officials told The Associated Press on Thursday. The deaths pushed the U.S. Forest Service to speed up work […]
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While it’s not common to see skunks in the Lake Tahoe Basin, they are here. A dog recently got sprayed in the Cathedral Road area of the South Shore. “We do have skunks in the basin, but the main population is on the Western Slope,” Carla Hass, spokeswoman for El Dorado County, told Lake Tahoe […]
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By Kathryn Reed TAHOE CITY – Placer County is making substantive changes to the contract it has with the North Lake Tahoe Resort Association. Something is broken, but county officials aren’t saying exactly what is wrong. Change – Placer County plans to rescind NLTRA’s power when it comes to capital improvement projects and transportation. NLTRA […]
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By Juliet Eilperin, Washington Post The Environmental Protection Agency has sidelined a website aimed at teaching schoolchildren about climate change, a public watchdog group has determined, as part of the agency’s efforts to align online content with the new administration’s values. When the EPA announced on April 28 that its site was “undergoing changes that reflect […]
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