By Kathryn Reed Half of the women’s 2017 Amgen bike race will be in South Lake Tahoe. Officials announced today that the women will be returning to the area May 11-12. Day 1 the cyclists will ride the 72 miles around the lake, finishing at Heavenly Mountain Resort. This will be the third year the […]
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The U.S. Forest Service will continue prescribed fire operations this week in areas on the south end of Lake Tahoe. If conditions are favorable, operations may take place on urban lots near Heavenly Mountain Resort and off South Upper Truckee near Highway 89 South in Christmas Valley. Operations will continue as conditions allow. Smoke from prescribed […]
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By Linda Fine Conaboy RENO – No child under the age of 18 should be allowed to play contact sports, forensic neuropathologist Bennet Omalu states in his clipped, fast-talking, often humorous manner. Ranging from one side of the stage to the other, without notes, he continues talking to an audience of nearly 1,000 who have […]
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By Ellen Knickmeyer, AP California water agencies that spent more than $350 million in the last two years of drought to pay property owners to rip out water-slurping lawns are now trying to answer whether the nation’s biggest lawn removal experiment was all worth the cost. Around the state, water experts and water-district employees are […]
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By Caroline Benner, High Country News At exactly 583.28 miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border, along the Pacific Crest Trail, you will come upon Golden Oak Spring. Just shy of a mile later, the trail crosses a power line near a wind farm. A half-mile farther, a man named Lon Cooper, a retired information-technology professional […]
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By Louis Sahagun, Los Angeles Times In the 1950s, California wildlife authorities used to fly over remote lakes and creeks in Yosemite National Park and deliver precious cargo: hatchery-raised trout. The policy was great for fishing enthusiasts. But for the yellow-legged frogs that shared those waters, the arrival of hungry trout was a disaster. These […]
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By Kathryn Reed Signs don’t do much good if no one can read them, and recreation amenities don’t do much good without staff to manage and maintain them. Those were two of the overriding messages delivered this month by the South Lake Tahoe Parks and Recreation Commission to the City Council. Commissioner Scott Valentine, who […]
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Tahoe Donner’s men’s 55 and over 9.0 tennis team made it to the semifinals of the national championships. This is an all doubles league where the combined USTA rating of the players must be 9.0 or less. The team took fourth place in the Oct. 30 competition in Arizona. The Truckee team was made up […]
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By Associated Press The federal Bureau of Land Management is planning to remove 1,100 wild horses from a part of Northern Nevada that also contains sage grouse habitat. The helicopter gather in the Owyhee area is scheduled to begin Tuesday, according to the Elko Daily Free Press. BLM Nevada Wild Horse and Burro Program Manager […]
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By James Raia Sacramento Bee The announcement likely will come early next week, but South Lake Tahoe officials expect to host the start of the 2017 women’s Amgen Tour of California. Sacramento is expected to be the start of the men’s race. A four-day women’s stage race will be held May 11-14, likely from South Lake […]
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