By Lisa Riley Roche, Deseret News Salt Lake City is already “ticking all the boxes” for another successful Winter Games bid, according to the head of a leading international Olympic publication. “They’re doing all the right things,” said Ed Hula, founder and editor of the Atlanta-based “Around the Rings,” especially involving state and local government […]
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By Kathryn Reed Opening day at Heavenly Mountain Resort was delayed a few hours, but that didn’t seem to bother the hundreds of people who were making tracks Friday for the first time this season. It did make for a bit of a long day for those who arrived at 6:30am to ensure they’d be […]
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Placer County has a slew of locations where residents may get sand bags. Here are locations in the greater Lake Tahoe area: North Tahoe Fire: Station 53, 5425 West Lake Blvd., Homewood North Tahoe Fire Station 52, 288 North Shore Blvd. (Intersection of highways 267 and 28), Kings Beach Northstar Community Services District Corp Yard, […]
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Nevada Department of Transportation has been prepping since August to be ready for winter, which arriving this week. NDOT begins annual winter preparations by readying more than 80 snowplows and other pieces of snow and ice equipment. Approximately 40,000 cubic yards of salt and sand has been stockpiled in the area, ready to be spread […]
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By Kathryn Reed TRUCKEE – Money isn’t keeping people off the ski slopes. It’s that they have so many more options when it comes to how to spend their time. That is something ski resort officials are trying to wrap their heads around. Michael Reitzell, president of the California Ski Industry Association, said that while […]
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Publisher’s note: This is one of a series of stories about Lake Tahoe area athletes who hope to compete in the 2018 Olympics in South Korea. By Kathryn Reed PARK CITY, Utah – “I want to do something no one else is doing. It is more important to be a pioneer than to do a […]
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By Scott Sonner, AP Federal scientists and land managers who’ve been crafting strategies to protect a ground-dwelling bird’s habitat across the American West for nearly two decades are going back to the drawing board under a new Trump administration edict to reassess existing plans condemned by ranchers, miners and energy developers. Federal officials are wrapping […]
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By Mary L. Martialay, Phys.Org Increasing organic runoff as a result of climate change may be reducing the penetration of pathogen-killing ultraviolet sunlight in inland lakes, rivers, and coastal waters, according to a study in the journal Scientific Reports. The findings, from a team including researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, points to the potential for […]
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The National Weather Service in Reno has issued a winter storm watch for the greater Lake Tahoe area from 4pm Nov. 15 to 4am Nov. 17. More than a foot of snow is possible at 7,000 feet or above. “Accumulations below 7,000 feet are more uncertain and depend on how fast snow levels fall Thursday, […]
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By David Bunker, Tahoe Quarterly This winter, if lucky, you might see Warren Miller skier and Truckee local Amie Engerbretson rocket off a cliff in Squaw Valley’s Fingers named after her dad. Or you might catch 16-year-old Noah Gaffney dropping into a chute immortalized in “Squallywood” — the unofficial guidebook to Squaw Valley skiing penned […]
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