By Ray Brewer, Las Vegas Sun We learned at a young age the importance of beating a high school from Reno in the state tournament. If you played football, the goal was to win the zone championship game at the Silver Bowl, then to carry the flag for Southern Nevada when taking on a team […]
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Sierra-at-Tahoe will open for the 2017-18 winter season on Dec. 2. The resort will offer limited terrain, accessed by two lifts and two surface lifts. Early season conditions are present throughout the mountain and guests are asked to obey all signs and closures. Sierra-at-Tahoe will spin Grandview Express and Easy Rider Express, giving guests access […]
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By Kathryn Reed Heavenly Mountain Resort wants to cut down trees, move boulders and relocate snowmaking equipment all in the name of creating a better experience for skiers and snowboarders. For this next phase of the master plan, the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit is taking comments on the draft environmental assessment until Dec. 22. […]
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Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit is seeking comments on the Incline management plan project. The purpose of the project is to incorporate the land acquired in 2011 into the LTBMU Forest Plan and assign it to the appropriate management area. The purpose of this planning effort is also to plan project-specific activities to bring the […]
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By Ben Nuckols, AP WASHINGTON — In court, all four major U.S. sports leagues are fighting New Jersey’s challenge to the federal ban on sports gambling, which the Supreme Court will hear next month. Outside of court, leaders of three of the four leagues have made public comments that suggest they wouldn’t mind losing the […]
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By Kurtis Alexander, San Francisco Chronicle The early bird not only gets the worm, but may stand a better chance of riding out global warming. A study finds that birds in California are breeding up to 12 days earlier than they did a century ago, an apparent effort to maintain their optimal nesting temperatures as […]
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By Kathryn Reed OLYMPIC VALLEY – November skiing is always something to be thankful for in the Sierra because Mother Nature seems to be so fickle in the fall. Out of the last five years, this is the most terrain Squaw Valley has had open this time of year. It’s obvious there has been a […]
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By Wayne Parry, AP Internet gambling in the United States has been limited to just three states since it began in 2013, but it could soon get a big boost from an unlikely source: the U.S. Supreme Court. Some gambling industry officials, regulators and analysts think that a favorable ruling by the high court in […]
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By Alicia Barber, KUNR Today’s ski resorts generally run like clockwork, every day whisking thousands of skiers high up the mountain in electric-powered chair lifts and sending them down slopes that are flattened and smoothed every night by massive grooming machines. It’s no small task. But for sheer human effort, today’s preparations are nothing […]
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There are many tall tales about the Optimist Club and their adventures in the Christmas tree business over the last 49 years. Ben Kunibe, the ultimate Optimist, who was a member when the SLT Optimist Club first formed, was there when the club first sold trees at the Nevada Lumber Company in 1968. You can […]
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