Damage from last winter has forced the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit to stabilize the Upper Truckee River project near Lake Tahoe Airport. Work began in August on the airport side of the new river channel and will continue on the neighborhood side of the river starting Sept. 11. It should be finished by the […]
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By Thomas Moore, Las Vegas Sun Nevada’s Gaming Control Board will soon begin allowing sports books to offer bets on a year’s worth of esports events, the board’s chief of enforcement Karl Bennison said Thursday at a gambling and esports conference at the Westgate. Currently, books can only get permission to offer bets on one […]
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Placer County Board of Supervisors this week approved two agreements to help advance the planned Resort Triangle Trail Network. The now halfway complete Resort Triangle will consist of a continuous 62-miles of trails running from downtown Truckee to Northstar, then to Kings Beach. From there the trail will continue to Tahoe City before returning to […]
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By Kathryn Reed Zephyr Cove Tennis Club will be hosting its first national tournament next week – the USTA National Husband Wife Hard Court Championships. Each year there are four main husband-wife events played on a different surface: hardcourt, grass, clay and indoors. And like the pros, if a couple were to win them all, […]
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By Kathryn Reed Squaw Valley wants to build a coaster similar to what Heavenly Mountain Resort has at the top of the gondola. The Timberline Twister would be near the base of the resort between the Far East and Red Dog chairlifts in an area that is zoned for this type of use. The resort […]
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By Bubba Brown, Park Record For Michael Cook and the rest of the volunteer ski patrollers who have staffed Park City Mountain Resort over the last several decades, it’s the end of an era. The resort recently eliminated its National Ski Patrol volunteer program, announcing the decision to both the volunteers and full-time patrollers last […]
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Campgrounds and facilities associated with the Sacramento Municipal Utility District’s Upper American River Project in El Dorado County will be undergoing renovations over the next few years. Many of these facilities will be upgraded and several new features added. The work will require some sites to be temporarily or completely closed during construction. Here are […]
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By Gary R. Blockus, Team USA Olympic champion Jamie Anderson of Meyers earned the first win of the 2017-18 slopestyle snowboarding world cup season on Sept. 4 at the Winter Games NZ in Cardrona, New Zealand. The 26-year-old Anderson, who earned the first gold medal in women’s slopestyle snowboarding at the Olympic Winter Games […]
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By Jessie Marchesseau MEYERS – On a recent Friday afternoon, Michael Moughler lounged on the shore near Lake Baron while his mother and sister paddled their kayaks in the quiet, mirror-smooth water. This is a pretty average day at Tahoe Paradise Park, and that’s part of the reason Michael loves it so much. He comes […]
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By Ben Botkin, Las Vegas Review-Journal Commercial collectors have plucked nearly half a million reptiles off the Nevada desert landscape in the last three decades. There have been more than 420,000 collections since figures began being kept in 1986. The figure alarms conservationists and state wildlife officials and underscores Nevada’s uniqueness in the reptile world. […]
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