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Nevada’s role in the two-state pact forged decades ago to protect Lake Tahoe will be up for discussion again by the 2013 Legislature, with interests on all sides of the debate describing the stakes for the lake’s future as particularly high.

Quick: When you hear the phrase "Lake Tahoe," what's the first thing that comes to your mind? If you said "skiing" or "casinos," you'd respond as probably 99 percent of Bay Area residents do. If you said "geography," "sustainability" or "culture," you'd be among the minority, but you'd be onto a great new idea.

California Gov. Jerry Brown today delivered the 2013 State of the State Address. Here's the prepared text:

California Republican lawmakers say more revenue from Proposition 30 should go toward freezing tuition at the state’s colleges and universities. They’ve introduced several bills they say would help college students.

Two Republican backed bills would freeze tuition rates at all of the state's universities and community colleges as long as the Proposition 30 tax measure is in effect.

As Prepared for Delivery Wednesday, Jan. 16, 2013:

Madam Speaker, Mr. President, Distinguished Members of the Legislature, Honorable Justices of the Supreme Court, Constitutional Officers, Senator Heller, honored guests…...

El Dorado County Sheriff's deputies arrested the wife of former Lake Tahoe Forest Supervisor Bob Harris on suspicion of murder over the weekend after finding Harris' body in a home near Placerville.
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Reno writer and educator, Raymond Rugg, has been selected as a panelist for the Southwest/Texas Popular Culture and American Culture Association's 33rd annual conference, slated for February in Albuquerque, N.M. He will be discussing his short story, tum' and the Agency school, at a panel designed to explore the combination of speculative fiction and indigenous peoples.

Rugg is the former editor of Lake Tahoe Action Magazine and a former staff member of both the Tahoe Daily Tribune and the Reno Gazette-Journal.

Lake Tahoe is "the fairest picture the whole earth affords," Mark Twain once wrote. Its crystal blue waters, surrounded by stunning snowy mountains, define one of California's crown jewels as an American landmark. It attracts 3 million skiers, boaters, campers, hikers and other visitors each year.
But it could look very different in 100 years.

The Sierra snowpack is off to a good start because of some recent storms that brought plenty of moisture to the region. It comes just in time for the first snow survey of the year.
"It's all just good news," hydrologist Dan Greenlee said. "This is fantastic."
The numbers for the first snow survey, this year, couldn't be much better. The snow amount is almost double the average for December. The snowpack is already about two-thirds of a full season's average, with three more months to go.

South Lake Tahoe Police and the Douglas County Sheriff's Office are asking help in locating a Petaluma woman who attended the SnowGlobe Music Festival and has been reported missing by family.
Alyssa Marie Byrne, 19, attended the three-day SnowGlobe event in South Lake Tahoe this past weekend. On New Year's Eve night she never made it back to her hotel room and was last seen in the Horizon Casino Hotel lobby in Stateline. Cell phone records indicate she used her phone prior to midnight, authorities said.

The new year arrives with mountain conditions far different than a year ago, with the all-important snowpack that provides the bulk of water supplies for western Nevada at near twice-normal levels.

On Monday, the Truckee River Basin’s snowpack was measured at 192 percent of normal for the date, with the Lake Tahoe Basin at 161 percent. That’s compared to 18 and 11 percent for those two places as recorded on Dec. 31, 2011.

Two skiers are being treated for minor injuries after an avalanche at Squaw Valley on the KT-22 peak, according to Squaw Valley Public Relations Manager Amelia Richmond.
Three snowboarders triggered the inbounds, post-control avalanche at 9:50 a.m., said Richmond.
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A meteorite that exploded as a fireball over California’s Sierra Nevada foothills April 22 and heard throughout the Lake Tahoe Basin was among the fastest, rarest meteorites known to have hit the Earth, and it traveled a highly eccentric orbital route to get here.

An international team of scientists presents these and other findings in a study published Friday, Dec. 21, in the journal Science. The 70-member team included nine researchers from UC Davis, along with scientists from the SETI Institute, NASA and other institutions.

For the first time since 1987, Lake Tahoe has a new regional plan for development and land use.
Twelve of the 14 voting members of the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency's governing board voted in favor of the new plan, with one member voting against it and another abstaining, according to TRPA spokesman Jeff Cowan.

Business interests say the plan is an overdue overhaul of regulations that will jump-start Tahoe's tourism economy while also protecting its environment.

I was very delighted to see the story on Jeanette Shippee and the culinary arts program at the county jail in Friday's Tahoe Daily Tribune.For many years I have been one of the baked goods judges a...

A Gardnerville woman is recovering from mild frostbite at a Carson City hospital after spending six nights in Hope Valley.
Gardnerville resident Paula Lane, 46, and boyfriend Roderick Paul Clifton, 44, were reported missing after they left Citrus Heights, Calif., on the afternoon of Nov. 29.
On Wednesday, Lane was found along Burnside Lake Road by her brother, who took a frontloader from a nearby state transportation shed and drove up the road.
Lane is at Carson Tahoe Regional Medical Center recovering after she arrived there 9 p.m. Wednesday.

HOPE VALLEY, CALIF. - A family member of Roderick Clifton called KOLO 8 News Now Wednesday night saying the couple missing since last Thursday has been found and are headed to Carson Tahoe Hospital in Carson City.
CHP still cannot confirm whether the couple, Roderick Clifton and Paula Lane, has been found. Sergeant Joe Sherry just saying he was notified at 8:30pm Wednesday night that, " A female subject had made contact with somebody at Sorenson's Resort. She had said that they were in a collision. I don't have a name on her."

The state of Nevada will introduce a new “brand” in the spring that will include a marketing campaign to help boost tourism and economic development, Gov. Brian Sandoval told an audience at the Governor’s Conference on Tourism on Tuesday in Sparks.
Other tourism officials said the brand will include a new statewide slogan and logo. Tourism officials said the campaign to roll out Nevada’s new brand has been in the works for more than a year.

Ground and aerial searches have not turned up any sign of a missing couple who left Northern California last Thursday for Gardnerville in Douglas County.
Roderick Paul Clifton, 44, of Citrus Heights, and also listed as being from Gardnerville and Paula Lane, 46, also of Gardnerville, were reported missing by relatives when they didn't answer their cellphones and didn't return to Nevada by that night, according to Citrus Heights Police Department Det. Sgt. Lee Harrington.

El Dorado County Sheriff's deputies have identified the four people killed in a horrific car accident involving a car that collided with a minivan on a rural highway in Northern California.
Five other people were hurt when a Toyota Prius crossed the center line on Highway 50 near Placerville on Saturday night and struck a Toyota Sienna minivan "broadside," said California Highway Patrol spokesman Officer John Frizzell.

The nation's ski industry suffered an epic wipeout last season, with the least snowfall in decades and one of the steepest drops in skier visits on record.
But instead of retrenching, resort owners are opening their wallets wide on upgrades and expansions.
One of the biggest jumps in spending is taking place at the snow-covered peaks around Lake Tahoe, where resorts are in the midst of a spending splurge of more than $100 million over the next five years.

After three long days of poker at Harveys Lake Tahoe, Cary Marshall of King Salmon, Alaska emerged victorious in the latest World Series of Poker Circuit Main Event. Marshall entered the final day with the chip lead, and though didn’t necessarily go wire-to-wire, het outlasted the entire 422-player field to pocket $139,260, the gold ring, and a seat in the National Championship next year.

UPDATED: The 5th annual Tahoe Chamber Blue Ribbons Awards were held Thursday night, recognizing businesses, individual and organizations for their outstanding service and contribution to the South Shore Lake Tahoe community. The awards presentation recognized all businesses nominated and announce the winners of the eight separate categories.
The winners, finalists and honorable mentions are listed in the attachment below the story: