Fire restrictions go into effect in the Eldorado National Forest on Aug. 18. Wood and charcoal fires will be restricted to designated recreation sites and other fire related activities will be prohibited until the end of fire season. Gas or propane fires are allowed with a free 2017 California campfire permit. On USFS lands, fire […]
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Beginning next week, the Pope Baldwin Bike Path near South Lake Tahoe will be subject to traffic control while crews thin trees around the bike path. Flaggers will intermittently close the bike path for up to 30 minutes at a time for public safety during the tree felling operations. This phase of the project will […]
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By Tony Berendsen The Milky Way in August as seen from the North Shore of Lake Tahoe is spectacular to behold on a moonless evening. Breaching as a gigantic silvery whale our galaxy’s shape towers across the sky through the constellation of Cassiopeia and at the South Shore it’s heart is exposed near the constellation […]
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By Judy Horst, InMenlo Stanford men’s basketball coach Jerod Haase wanted to play for Stanford while growing up in South Lake Tahoe, but attended Cal before transferring to the University of Kansas, playing for coach Roy Williams. Haase highlighted Stanford’s upcoming men’s basketball season for the audience at the Menlo Park Kiwanis Club’s luncheon earlier […]
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By Kathryn Reed STATELINE — The South Shore is hoping nine months from now elite cyclists will be racing again on local roads. The Lake Tahoe Visitors Authority board has given staff direction to try to bring the men’s and women’s Amgen bike events back to town. The event will be May 10-19, but the […]
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The 5th annual Tahoe Mountain Bike and Brew Festival in Meyers is Aug. 26-27. The free festival staged at Divided Sky will include live music, beer garden, barbecue, kids zone, vendors, and lots of riding. The latest bikes from Ibis, Specialized, Trek, Norco, Pivot, YT Industries, Intense, and Rocky Mtn will be available to try. […]
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By Scott Sonner, AP Nevada game wardens who spend most their time hunting down big-game poachers are focusing on a serious threat to nature in a lake: An invasive fish species that eats all the other fish prized by anglers and then turns cannibalistic. The Nevada Department of Wildlife is offering a $10,000 reward to […]
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By Jim Sloan In 2009, Will Richardson was doing some summertime bird-monitoring research in aspen stands in Ward Canyon near Lake Tahoe when he heard an unexpected birdsong. It was a high, pleasing, spiraling song, like a flute, and he recognized it right away as the song of a Swainson’s thrush, a bird that had […]
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By Mike Wolterbeek When some people hear that 83 percent of the sun will be blocked, they might assume it’s just another day in January. However, when 83 percent of the sun is blocked in the middle of August, people will notice. During the late morning hours (9:04-11:43am of Aug. 21) residents in the greater […]
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More than 400 people are expected to raise more than $30,000 at Walk MS: South Lake Tahoe on Sept. 16, which will take place at Camp Richardson. In 2016, nearly 300,000 people at more than 550 locations across the country walked to create a world free of MS, raising nearly $50 million. Since 1988, hundreds […]
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