SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - The Boys and Girls Club of Lake Tahoe celebrated 30 years of providing services to children and their families on the South Shore with a big party on Friday.

The Angel of Tahoe, Lisa Maloff, joined founding board members of the club, staff and children to celebrate with a combined summer party and birthday party. There were large inflatable slides and bounce houses, a magic show from Alex Ramon, and of course, cake.

EL DORADO COUNTY, Calif. - El Dorado County Public Health is reminding residents and visitors to use precautions to prevent Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever (TBRF), after receiving reports of two cases of the illness in the past two months.

The South Lake Tahoe Police Department is partnering with area first responders to host the National Night Out 2021 event on Tuesday, August 3.

This year's National Night Out will be held at the Blue Zone Sports parking lot at the Y from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

There will be food, games, activities, a mobile vaccine clinic, resources, and various first responder vehicles. This is a family-friendly event and a great chance to connect with our local first responders.

Think about it, in the nine years or so that SnowGlobe has been here it has violated its contract over and over and over. The most recent violation has been SnowGlobe's inability to abide by its current contract to identify an alternative site by June of 2021. Why would you work with someone who constantly doesn't follow through on an agreed to contract? Oh, please don't let them tell you that they didn't have time last year to research locations because of COVID. They had plenty of time because they didn't have to produce an event last year.

EL DORADO COUNTY, Calif. - There were 62 new cases of COVID-19 in El Dorado County since yesterday.

The 14-day case rates and number of the population per 100,000 residents are continuing to climb closure to data seen at the height of the pandemic. According to Test Well of South Lake Tahoe and Reno, they had a 21 percent positivity rate on 100 tests on Thursday alone. Tests they did over the previous seven days was 12.6 percent and 10.4 percent for previous two weeks. Below is the information for El Dorado County, Douglas County and Washoe County.

The new cases for El Dorado County:

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - South Lake Tahoe had a printed evacuation plan that was well though out by regions and neighborhoods, but many found it confusing and it did not include the areas of the county that are neighbors to the City. And it was for fires.

PLACER COUNTY, Calif. - Due to a growing housing crisis in the North Lake Tahoe Region, the Placer County Board of Supervisors voted on Tuesday to approve a temporary moratorium on the issuance of new short-term rental permits. This is just the latest in a series of actions to to and address the unprecedented crisis.

The self-guided Lake Tahoe Art Tour is back for 2021, the 14th anniversary of giving the public a glimpse into local art studios with a unique opportunity to meet the artists, and view, and buy, art directly from the makers. It will be held over two weekends, July 30 - August 1, and August 6-8.

Although the tour this year has been scaled back to a smaller size than usual, there are still 11 locations and 21 artists, and includes a wide range of photographers, jewelers, painters, printmakers, and ceramicists.

First Weekend
Friday, July 30 - 10 am to 5 pm

9:23PM UPDATE: Power has been restored to the region and there are no areas reported without power.

9:10PM UPDATE: Power has been restored to some areas of the South Shore including parts of the North Upper Truckee Road area, some of Gardner Mountain and Pioneer Trail.

We don't know the reason for the outage at this time.

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Liberty Utilities is reporting 10,814 of its customers in the South Lake Tahoe are without power Tuesday evening.

Crews are responding and they are estimating the power will be restored by around 10:30 p.m.