By Molly Sullivan, Sacramento Bee You may need to bring your winter coat in Tahoe for Memorial Day weekend. An unseasonably cool weather system is moving into California on Friday, the National Weather Service said. There’s a chance of showers and thunderstorms in the South Lake Tahoe forecast for Friday and into Saturday. Read the […]
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By Carl Segerstrom, High Country News Ted Stroll, a bespectacled, balding, retired attorney whose remaining hair is short and white, doesn’t fit the stereotype of an extremist mountain biker. But his group, the Sustainable Trails Coalition, is challenging the mainstream mountain biking establishment by fighting to permit bikes in America’s wilderness areas. Stroll’s crusade has […]
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By Jim Krajewski, Reno Gazette-Journal A record was set at the Nevada state swim meet on Saturday that can never be broken. Incline senior Kate Rye won the 50-yard race for the fourth time. She is the first person in any division, boys and girls, to accomplish the feat of winning the same race at four […]
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By Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle The thunder rumbled across the mountains, a low, steady roll that carried for miles. On Saturday evening, as I cooked dinner at our fire pit, I gazed above a distant ridge, where the thunder seemed to originate. About a minute later, a lightning bolt fired across the dark sky. […]
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By Kathryn Reed With the acquisition of the 206-acre Johnson Meadow, 93 percent of the Upper Truckee watershed is now owned by public agencies. Tahoe Resource Conservation District in April closed on the South Lake Tahoe property. It roughly borders Lake Tahoe Airport, Highway 50, the Upper Truckee River on the Sierra Tract side, and […]
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By Sarah Tory, High Country News On July 14 of last year, Peter Doro and Jake Lord joined the Friday afternoon stream of people leaving the sprawling cities of Colorado’s Front Range for the mountains. They planned to summit Capitol Peak, a soaring mass of granite 14,130 feet tall near Aspen on the state’s Western […]
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A backboard is one way to improve your tennis game, but it won’t provide any insight into why your backhand isn’t as penetrating as it could be. A pro – that’s who you should be hitting with. A professional has the ability to work with players of all levels to elevate their game. It […]
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Firewood permits go on sale at the South Lake Tahoe office of the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit on June 4 and at the Incline Village Forest Service office on June 6. Permits cost $20 per cord, with a two-cord minimum and a limit of 10 cords per household. Permits have specific conditions and complete […]
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By Jennifer Roberts, The Conversation On May 14, the United States Supreme Court invalidated the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act, a federal law that prohibited states, aside from a few exemptions like Nevada, from allowing sports betting operations. In a victory for states’ rights, the court ruled that the law unconstitutionally interfered with states’ […]
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By Kathryn Reed ATLANTA – Baseball may be a simple game – hit, catch, throw – but the history, the competition, the nuances of the game, the pageantry are what make it magical. Unlike football and basketball where the dimensions of the field and court never change, the same is not true for baseball parks. […]
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