• Lake Tahoe Blue’s hockey season at the South Lake Tahoe Ice Arena has started. For more info, go online. • Longtime Placer County Supervisor Kirk Uhler has been named CEO of Sacramento Regional Technology Alliance. • Two of Barton Health’s female doctors will talk for free about breast cancer and other common cancers that […]
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By Deborah Netburn, Los Angeles Times Here’s another reason to get your kids off the couch and make them run around instead: It will help them think better. In a paper published in Pediatrics, researchers report that kids 7 to 9 years old who attended a daily, after-school fitness program showed an increased ability to […]
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The 10th annual Mutt Strut Poker Run is Oct. 12 on your calendar. It will start and end at Lakeview Commons in South Lake Tahoe. And please have your fingers crossed that our weather will be more like this week, and not last weekend! Three poker hands are $20 in advance ($25 day of event) and three […]
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Publisher’s note: Lake Tahoe News asked the two El Dorado County District 5 supervisor candidates a series of questions. All are the same except for one that is specific to each candidate. The responses are being run in the order LTN received them. Name: Kenny Curtzwiler Profession/work experience: Room service waiter at Sahara Tahoe – […]
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By Larry Weitzman With winter coming, it was a good thing that Supervisor Ron Mikulaco and Auditor Joe Harn came up with a plan to pay for the second snowplow and saved the county $50,000 interest instead of following the Community Development Agency’s plan to lease it, which is usually the most expensive way to […]
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A South Lake Tahoe father still desires to name a peak in Desolation Wilderness after his son, but doing so is in limbo. The idea was Mitch Underhill’s. Underhill and Ryan Shreve were best friends and firefighters. Shreve died in 2003 at the age of 24 from second impact syndrome following a wakeboarding accident on Folsom Lake. […]
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The King Fire is at 94 percent containment. Crews on Oct. 1 spent time suppressing isolated heat sources south of the Rubicon River on the west flank, but the acreage burned remains at 97,099. Full containment is expected Oct. 4. Helicopters were on scene to stop further spread. The heat and dry weather is causing […]
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By J.D. Morris, Las Vegas Sun Nongaming revenue isn’t just crucial to the success of casino-resorts now — in fact, it’s always been “the story,” Las Vegas mogul Steve Wynn said in a speech this week. Wynn delivered a keynote address to a packed crowd at the first full day of the Global Gaming Expo, […]
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To the community, How do you know when someone has crossed a line of ethical standards? It’s a tough topic because it is a subjective concept and many people will have a different point of view. What if it’s even bigger than that? What if it’s an entity that receives taxpayer funding that crosses that […]
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The Lake Tahoe premier of “Some Thing Else” will be Oct. 16 on the North Shore. Powderwhore Productions, the Salt Lake City film crew celebrating its 10th year of ski filming, captures some of the steepest and deepest powder on the expeditions to remote mountain ranges. Part ski-porn, part-documentary, “Some Thing Else” is a propaganda […]
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