Even though Placer County’s Tahoe Basin Area Plan already faces a legal challenge, the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency Governing Board on Wednesday voted to approve it. The vote was unanimous, though board member Belinda Faustinos had to leave the Jan. 25 meeting in Kings Beach early. However, she had expressed her support before she exited. The […]
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By KRNV-TV Volunteers with Washoe County’s search and rescue teams have found a snowboarder who was reported missing in the Mt. Rose area Wednesday night. The boarder started at Incline Peak, according to the sheriff’s office, and his car was parked on the Mt. Rose summit. The sheriff’s office reported just before 9pm Jan. 25 […]
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South Lake Tahoe will benefit from the $127 million the California Transportation Commission is spending on 49 projects in the state. The money is being spent on aging roads and bridges, make upgrades to transit and rail systems and to encourage use of alternative forms of transportation, including biking and walking. The funding includes $47.4 […]
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By Rachel Crosby, Las Vegas Review-Journal Even though recreational marijuana is now legal in Nevada, it doesn’t seem legal to some locals. During a public educational meeting on pot recently hosted by the Metropolitan Police Department’s Spring Valley area substation, a man in the audience repeatedly asked questions before making a final request. One of […]
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By Daniel Duane, Bloomberg Chris McNamara, an experienced rock climber and BASE jumper, was dangling from a cliff near the city of South Lake Tahoe in March 2016 when he had a vision: “It was snowy and super beautiful, and I realized this place ought to be a world capital of outdoor recreation—San Francisco’s cool, […]
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By Kathryn Reed The future of transportation is not going to be a smooth ride in Lake Tahoe. While four speakers last week focused on technology and transportation, they all sounded like they are working in silos and not together. What the public wanted based on questions was information about what is being done to […]
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Updated 10:35pm: Power has been restored. —– A good stretch of Northstar, Truckee and Glenshire are without power. Liberty Utilities said these customer should expect rotating outages throughout the night and possibly into Wednesday morning due to a problem with NV Energy’s North Truckee substation which feeds Liberty’s distribution lines. “We ask that North Lake Tahoe […]
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By Kathryn Reed A Homewood man was found dead Tuesday morning, laying in the snow outside of his house. Placer County sheriff’s deputies found the body of Todd Michael Borchardt, 49, about 11am Jan. 24 covered in 5 to 6 inches of snow. Deputies received a call from the PDQ Market in Tahoma saying a […]
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Updated 4:42pm: A ski patroller at Squaw Valley died Tuesday morning during avalanche control activities. Joe Zuiches, 42, of Truckee was killed Jan. 24 by an explosive device used for avalanche control. “The cause is believed to be the detonation of an explosive charge, and does not appear to be avalanche related,” the resort said in […]
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By Phillip Reese, Sacramento Bee The Women’s March on Saturday drew historic participation across California, with 50 cities each drawing more than 100 protestors. Crowd estimates put the cumulative turnout in California between 531,000 and 1.2 million, according to nationwide data compiled by Erica Chenoweth of the University of Denver and Jeremy Pressman of the […]
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