South Tahoe High School’s undefeated boys’ tennis team is going to compete for the state championship. The team beat Truckee 10-8 on Oct. 7. This is the first time the Vikings won the 3A Northern Nevada Regional Championship. The team is undefeated this year with a 12-0 record. “I am proud of the team this […]
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By Vytas Mazeika, Bay Area News Group Stanford men’s basketball practice began Sunday. But whatever drills first-year coach Jerod Haase put his players through at Maples Pavilion, it’s unlikely to compare with the two-day Navy SEAL camp from a couple of weeks ago in South Lake Tahoe. For example, the Cardinal hit the pool on […]
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By Tony Berendsen If you’re a star gazer, you may be interested to know how to measure the darkness of your night sky? Maybe you’d even like to become a citizen-scientist and make a measurement from your backyard contributing data to the Globe at Night campaign? The darkness of the night sky is actually measured […]
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By Priya Hutner, Tahoe Weekly Adrian Ballinger and Emily Harrington returned home two weeks from the day they left Tahoe after attaining their goal to summit Cho Oyu, the mountain known as the Turquoise Goddess, in record time. Speaking from his home in Squaw Valley, Ballinger had been home less than 48 hours, where he’d […]
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Almost all the money needed to purchase the Johnson Meadows property in South Lake Tahoe has been secured. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife this week allocated $4 million to the Tahoe Resource Conservation District for the acquisition. In March the California Tahoe Conservancy gave the TRCD $4.234 million for the purchase. The approximately 209-acre property is the […]
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The U.S. Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit will soon begin closing recreational facilities around the Lake Tahoe Basin for the winter season. Seasonal closures apply to many Forest Service recreation sites including beaches, campgrounds, and picnic areas, which traditionally close in mid-October. Forest roads close around mid-November for soil protection and public safety. […]
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Participants in the various Lake Tahoe Marathon events on Oct. 7-9 could cause delays for motorists. On Friday there will be runners on the shoulder of the road between South Lake Tahoe and Incline Village. One westbound lane of Cave Rock will be coned off for runners between 8-9:30am. On Saturday runners will be on […]
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By Brad Branan, Sacramento Bee YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK — When naturalist John Muir explored Lyell Glacier in Yosemite National Park about 150 years ago, the river of ice stretched as far as 10 football fields between the peaks of the Lyell Canyon, a glacier one might expect to see in Alaska, not California. Today, it’s […]
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With the onset of cooler, wetter weather, the Tahoe National Forest is preparing for prescribed fires that will occur throughout the fall, winter and spring, as conditions allow. Planned projects include burning piles of stacked vegetation and low to moderate intensity understory burns of vegetation on the forest floor. The primary goals of these projects are to reduce […]
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South Lake Tahoe Recreation Department is offering two American Red Cross certified lifeguard training courses. The courses are being taught by Liz Terzian. Participants will be trained and certified to provide care for breathing and cardiac emergencies, injuries, and sudden illness until emergency services take over. Participants must be at least 16, be able to […]
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