Permits are on sale now for the Nevada Division of State Parks’ wood-sale Wednesdays. Permits must be purchased at the State Parks Division office, located at 901 South Stewart St., Ste. 5005 in Carson City from 8am-5pm Wednesdays. Permits are $20 (exact cash or check only) per truck and are limited to one permit per […]
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By Carlos Alcalá, Sacramento Bee Vacationers skim the surface of Fallen Leaf Lake on water skis or kayaks, oblivious that scientists are investigating the depths for signs of natural disasters to come. Last week, scientists began crisscrossing the lake with a $450,000, state-of-the-art sonar tool that will map the lake bed in unprecedented detail. They’re […]
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By Austin Fay STATELINE- – The first day of the American Century Celebrity Golf Tournament was a relatively sleepy one, with many of the invited players expected to arrive at the Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course today and Thursday. Blue skies, a chilly lake and the chance of spotting NHL legend Mario Lemieux brought Jeff and […]
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Squaw Valley opened its kids zipline this past weekend. Built for high flying fun at the mountain’s base, the zipline lets kids soar over the mountain. Kids slide into a harness, climb up to the top of the launch tower and fly across the field to a landing 200 feet away. Located next to the […]
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By Susan Wood STATELINE – Coming off a wet winter and massive upgrades, Edgewood Tahoe stands to show off more than stars when the American Century golf championship swings into action this week. The Stateline golf course has spruced up its grounds with a $2 million overhaul on its 40-year-old irrigation system. Barely a few […]
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By Jeff Delong, Reno Gazette-Journal At a “gem” of a Sierra lake recently purchased for the public, native inhabitants are making a record comeback. At Independence Lake, one of only two lakes in the world with an indigenous population of Lahontan cutthroat trout, the threatened fish are now spawning at levels not seen since 1956. […]
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By Kathryn Reed It’s not the Boundary Waters, but canoeing on Lake Tahoe can be fun – even if it means taking deep breaths while some guy on a Jet Ski spins in circles close to our canoe. Unfortunately, the choppy water and deafening noise made me briefly forget I was in one of the […]
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By Peter Hecht, Sacramento Bee Scuba-diving scientists and a federal, state and regional battalion launched an aquatic assault Friday on alien invaders threatening to slime one of the world’s most pristine lakes. In a $1.4 million experiment led by researchers from the University of California, Davis and the University of Nevada, the team set out […]
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By Dan Hinxman, Reno Gazette Journal The Reno-Tahoe Open and American Century Championship, the area’s two prominent golf tournaments, are the same week this year — July 12-18 — for the first time in the history of the two popular events. “That’s unfortunate, isn’t it?” local golf enthusiast John Coats said. The tournaments have been […]
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By Chris Murray, Reno Gazette-Journal Jerry Rice readily will admit that when he played football he was addicted to the game. He’d do whatever it took to get better. And by the time he retired in 2004, with three Super Bowl rings in hand, there was little doubt he was the greatest wide receiver in […]
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