South Tahoe High School’s swim team is headed to the state competition on Saturday. Twenty-four athletes qualified for regionals and participated in the 3-A Northern Regional Swim Meet on May 12-13. The boys and girls’ teams each finished in regionals in second place overall for the season. Eleven of the swimmers will be at the […]
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By Associated Press Evan Huffman had spent nearly the entire day Wednesday in a breakaway with four other riders at the Tour of California, his energy drained and his legs pushed to the limit in an effort to stay away. Yet his mind couldn’t help but wander. Huffman thought back to last year’s stage […]
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By Ryan Sabalow, Sacramento Bee Researchers have issued a dire warning for California’s native trout and salmon: Three-quarters of them will be extinct in the next 100 years unless urgent action is taken. This bleak assessment came Tuesday from biologists at the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences and from California Trout, a nonprofit advocacy […]
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Approximately a hundred community members will collect water quality samples from dozens of South Shore tributaries on May 20 as part of Snapshot Day, an annual citizen science monitoring event now in its 17th year. Community members will gather at Lake Tahoe Community College at 9am to receive training before dispersing to assigned monitoring sites […]
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Tahoe Games Bike Night series returns in June for the third year. This family-friendly bike event features an illuminated cross country course at Lake Tahoe Golf Course in Meyers that spans across fairways, into the rough, through sand traps and over bridges with the occasional cart path. The dates are June 16 and Sept. 29. […]
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By Josh Petri, Bloomberg If a mountain bike allows a rider to take the road not traveled, the gravel bike is designed to let riders take the road that’s … only sort of a road. The bike industry has a long history of hyping new niche machines. Remember when fat tire bikes were all the rage? […]
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Anna van der Breggen, a phenomenal sprinter, powered her way past the field of Amgen Tour of California cyclists on Sunday to win the four-day race. Van der Breggen, who is from the Netherlands and rides for Boels-Dolmans, entered Sunday’s contest one second behind Katie Hall. Hall, who is known for her prowess on the […]
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By Alison Noon, AP Nevada students ages 9 to 11 can play at state parks for free beginning in July under a law Gov. Brian Sandoval signed Friday that will give fifth-graders free entry to all state parks and recreational areas for one year. The measure builds on a federal program that allows fourth-graders to […]
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By Tom Stienstra, San Francisco Chronicle You can hit launch mode on a rafting trip this summer and feel like you’re being shot out of a cannon. Light the fuse and stand back. As the rafting season gets under way, the outlook matches or exceeds the biggest water seasons in the past 30-plus years, including […]
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By April Corbin, Las Vegas Sun Off-road adventures abound in the Silver State, but the majority of residents are skirting the law when they jump into their dune buggies or climb aboard their all-terrain vehicles or dirt bikes. In July 2012, Nevada began requiring registration for almost all off-highway and all-terrain vehicles, and just under […]
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