All schools in the Tahoe Truckee Unified School District are closed today. Whittell High and Zephyr Cove Elementary schools will be starting an hour later than usual Oct. 22. About a half inch of snow fell overnight on the South Shore. The National Weather Service in Reno is calling for the brunt of the storm […]
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By Katherine E. Hill KINGS BEACH – Working together to promote Tahoe as a region was the message at the annual North Lake Tahoe Chamber of Commerce member lunch. “We need to have one message for the entire region,” said Julie Maurer, vice president of marketing for Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows ski resorts. Maurer […]
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The Placer County’s Transit Center in Tahoe City will open for business and be fully operational on Oct. 29. The center is a modern “park and ride” facility located for Tahoe Area Regional Transit passengers at 165 West Lake Blvd. in Tahoe City just off Highway 89 south of the Y. With the opening of […]
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By Kim Murphy, Los Angeles Times BARROW, Alaska — In past years, these remote gray waters of the Alaskan Arctic saw little more than the occasional cargo barge and Eskimo whaling boat. No more. This summer, when the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Bertholf was monitoring shipping traffic along the desolate tundra coast, its radar displays […]
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By Fox-Reno CARSON CITY — A Carson City deputy was injured in an accident Thursday on Highway 50. On Oct. 18 at about 4pm, troopers from the Nevada Highway Patrol were dispatched to Lake Tahoe Club Drive and Old Clear Creek Road just south of Highway 50 for a single vehicle motorcycle accident involving a […]
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A single-engine plane landed this evening at Lake Tahoe Airport without its landing gear down. For now the Piper Comanche is sitting in the middle of the runway and the airport is closed. A truck or some other means will be used to push the plane out of the way. South Lake Tahoe City Manager […]
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By Kathryn Reed The nearly 3,000 water customers of Kingsbury General Improvement District are likely to have their water rates increased. The board members, some of who are up for re-election Nov. 6, are expected to vote Oct. 23 on the rate adjustment. As of summer 2011, all 2,850 customers have meters. What KGID now […]
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By Northern Nevada News Bureau CARSON CITY – Nevada retailers are expected to add more than 4,000 seasonal positions through December, the Retail Association of Nevada said Thursday. The estimate is based on an assumption that hiring in 2012 will be comparable to last year, when the state added 4,100 retail positions between September and […]
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A $50 million guaranteed loan from the federal government to Kirkwood Meadows Public Utility District will help ensure the mountain community and ski resort have more reliable power. KMPUD in 2011 acquired Mountain Utilities, which had supplied the power to this resort area. KMPUD is separate from the ski resort, but supplies the electricity and […]
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By Kathryn Reed The man involved in a South Lake Tahoe bar fight in May has died and still there has never been a single arrest stemming from the now fatal incident. “Zippy passed away last night. His gramma Rose, my wife Debbie and myself were with him,” Wayne Penaranda told Lake Tahoe News. He […]
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