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Nevada governor takes spin in driverless car
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 07/20/2011 - 5:03pmCARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) - Gov. Brian Sandoval got behind the wheel of a Toyota Prius on Wednesday - and left the driving to a computer for a test drive through the capital and a scenic valley.San...
Borders bookstore in Carson closing
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 07/20/2011 - 5:00pmCARSON CITY, Nev. - Borders bookstore customers expressed shock and disappointment Tuesday that the 40-year-old book giant was closing its doors nationwide, and some blamed electronics."It's sadnes...
Names released of the two men killed in East Shore wreck
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 07/20/2011 - 1:39pmINCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. - Two men were killed and six others injured in a three-vehicle accident Tuesday afternoon on Lake Tahoe's East Shore near Sand Harbor State Park.According to Nevada Highwa...
Two killed, six injured in three-vehicle wreck on Lake Tahoe's East Shore
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 07/20/2011 - 8:51amINCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. - Two men were killed and six others injured in a three-vehicle accident Tuesday afternoon on Lake Tahoe's East Shore near Sand Harbor State Park.According to Nevada Highwa...
Summer libations keep the season lively
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 07/19/2011 - 6:28amBut for those who are not invited to Brenda's, I recommend Voodoo on Your Woody at Riva Grill in South Lake Tahoe; Sue says order the mojito at Brooks Bar ...www.laketahoenews.net/.../summer-libat...
City's outdoor markets are ripe for good selection, good times
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/18/2011 - 4:04pmFrom the freshest greens to a cowboy hat made from a beer bottle box, South Lake Tahoe's outdoor markets have it all. And aside from the goods, the city's increasing number of farmers markets an...
Celebrity chasers flock to Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/18/2011 - 12:32pmAction at Edgewood Tahoe on July 15 starts at 9:30am with Jim McMahon, Bode Miller and Robbie Gould teeing off. Photos/Kathryn Reed ...www.laketahoenews.net/.../celebrity-chasers-flock-to-edgewoo......
Lake Tahoe vacation rentals stabilize short stays the new norm ...
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/18/2011 - 8:36amThe market for vacation rentals at Lake Tahoe is strengthening and consumers arent demanding deep price discounts as they did in recent years property ...www.laketahoenews.net/.../lake-tahoe-vacation-...
Snippets about Lake Tahoe
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 07/18/2011 - 3:23amSouth Lake Tahoe has track meets for all ages on Thursdays from 5-8:30pm through July 28 at South Tahoe Middle School. • Scott Lankford, author of “Tahoe ...www.laketahoenews.net/2011/.../snippets...
LIVE COVERAGE: American Century Championship
Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 07/17/2011 - 12:13pmSTATELINE, Nev. - Tribune Sports Editor Doug Etten is out at Edgewood Tahoe to cover the American Century Championship. Read about celebrity sightings and how the players are faring live.To read...
Wagner has all he needs to lead ACC golf tourney
Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 07/17/2011 - 9:40amThe final round of the three-day tournament starts Sunday at Edgewood Tahoe at 8 :05am with Deron Williams, Tim Brown and Mason Crosby. ...www.laketahoenews.net/.../wagner-has-all-he-needs-to-keep-le....
Science day teaches youth about Tahoe's environment
Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 07/16/2011 - 10:57pm13 with scientists learning about the unique ecology, function, restoration and preservation of Lake Tahoe. The 12th annual Children's Environmental Science ...www.laketahoenews.net/.../science-da...
Median home price drops in first half
Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 07/16/2011 - 9:13amSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - It's a buyer's market out there.The median price of a South Lake Tahoe home dropped by almost 10 percent since 2010 in the first half of 2011, leaving the market ripe wit...
LIVE COVERAGE: American Century Championship
Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 07/16/2011 - 8:59amSTATELINE, Nev. - Tribune Sports Editor Doug Etten is out at Edgewood Tahoe to cover the American Century Championship. Read about celebrity sightings and how the players are faring live.To read...
Tahoe artist takes a swing at creating golf icons
Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 07/16/2011 - 2:38amThe first two went in Tuesday at Edgewood Tahoe and Zephyr Cove Resort, with a third to be installed late Thursday afternoon at Harrah's Lake Tahoe. ...www.laketahoenews.net/.../artist-takes-a-swi...
Paddling between watering holes on the shore of Tahoe
Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 07/16/2011 - 2:22amLuckily everything went smoothly last Sunday except for the water as we headed back to port Lake Tahoe has been windy for what seems like all of 2011 with ...www.laketahoenews.net/.../paddling-between...
Snippets about Lake Tahoe
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 07/15/2011 - 7:26pmCheck out Tahoe Regional Young Professionals at work. Filming was done by Brandi Ledbetter of South Lake Tahoe's Princess Productions. ...www.laketahoenews.net/2011/.../snippets-about-lake-tahoe-2...
LIVE COVERAGE: American Century Championship
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 07/15/2011 - 11:16amSTATELINE, Nev. - Tribune Sports Editor Doug Etten is out at Edgewood Tahoe to cover the American Century Championship. Read about celebrity sightings and how the players are faring live.To read...
Measure R headed to ballot
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 07/15/2011 - 11:02amSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - A measure that would allow money that is "just sitting there" to be spent on South Shore ball fields and bike trails inched closer to a ballot Wednesday afternoon.During ...
Agencies erred in change after Angora fire, judge finds
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 07/15/2011 - 10:59amLake Tahoe Basin water quality regulators failed to consider significant environmental impacts of a simplified permitting process following the 2007 Angora fire, according to a judge's decision lat...
Neighborhood traffic enforcement program moves to Tahoe Keys
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 07/15/2011 - 10:57amSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - A recently implemented neighborhood traffic enforcement program moved to the Tahoe Keys neighborhood this week, said South Lake Tahoe police Sgt. Shannon Laney in a Monda...
Man airlifted after motorcycle crash
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 07/15/2011 - 10:53amSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif.- A 61-year-old Redding man was flow to Renown Regional Medical Center in Reno with major injuries to both legs following a solo motorcycle crash on North Upper Truckee Road...
Tahoe woman reported missing in Washington
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 07/15/2011 - 10:52amSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - South Lake Tahoe police and Skamania County Sheriff's deputies are investigating the disappearance of a South Lake Tahoe woman following the Rainbow Festival in Washingto...
South Shore rape could have kept Garrido in prison, DA says
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 07/15/2011 - 10:42amSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Law enforcement officials missed an opportunity to keep Jaycee Lee Dugard captor Phillip Garrido in prison following the 1976 rape of a woman in South Lake Tahoe, accordi...
Food bank struggling, looking for donations
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 07/15/2011 - 8:31amThe shelves at South Lake Tahoe's food bank Christmas Cheer are becoming emptier and emptier and the line of families in need outside their door is getting longer and longer."Unfortunately the need...
S Tahoe woman disappears in Washingon
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 07/15/2011 - 8:07amSKAMANIA COUNTY Wash – A woman who traveled to Washington state from South Lake Tahoe to attend the Rainbow Family gathering in the Gifford Pinchot National ...www.laketahoenews.net/.../s-tahoe-woma...
Sandoval makes Lake Tahoe visit, discusses bear hunt, TRPA withdrawal bill
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 07/14/2011 - 12:11pmINCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. - For a small municipality of 8,000 residents, maybe half of whom reside full-time, Incline Village/Crystal Bay wields a surprising amount of political clout.On Tuesday, Ju...
Garrido victim gave him his handcuffs back, according to filing
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 07/13/2011 - 10:41amSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Phillip Garrido used the same pair of handcuffs in an attempted rape and kidnap of a 25-year-old woman about an hour before he successfully kidnapped and raped Katheri...
More South Shore Garrido victims identified
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 07/12/2011 - 6:15pmSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - The El Dorado County District Attorney's Office identified at least two new South Shore victims of Phillip Garrido Tuesday.A map showing the location and dates of Garr...
Ice arena gets new operator
Submitted by Anonymous on Tue, 07/12/2011 - 6:00amSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Big changes could be coming to the South Lake Tahoe Ice Arena following a change in operators this week.The South Lake Tahoe City Council unanimously approved a 10-year a...
Officials urge boating safety over weekend
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 1:00pmSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Sometimes on the Fourth of July, there's so many boats bobbing on Lake Tahoe, the lights of the South Shore seem to extend way out into the water. Marvelous as the sig...
Gary Bell smiles back on decades in Tahoe as shop hits 30th anniversary
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 07/01/2011 - 9:29amSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Gary Bell peered out the smudged window of his small Lake Tahoe Boulevard shop, Sierra Ski and Cycle Works, at a row of bikes brought in by customers for a fix or a tu...
Council to give sign ordinance another go
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 06/30/2011 - 5:39pmSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - City councils change, but some issues never seem to go away.The current incarnation of the South Lake Tahoe City Council intends to take a closer look at a perennial deba...
Measure R rolls on
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 06/30/2011 - 5:29pmSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - A proposed measure to improve bike paths and youth ball fields at the South Shore inched closer to reality this week.The three member South Lake Tahoe Recreation Faciliti...
Judge orders Amtrak crash evidence protected
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 06/30/2011 - 10:38amRENO, Nev. - A judge handling the first lawsuit in a deadly Amtrak crash in Nevada issued a protective order Wednesday prohibiting the destruction or disposal of any evidence tied to last week's fi...
City removes Regan Beach playground over safety concerns
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 06/29/2011 - 3:24pmCity officials removed the Regan Beach playground due to safety concerns. The steel jungle gym had been there for more than 20 years, said Parks and Recreation Department director Stan Sherer."B...
Cops, Caltrans prep for Fourth of July
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 06/29/2011 - 9:18amCome this weekend, cops will be out in full force and Caltrans will pull construction crews off the roads to prepare for the influx of visitors.Construction on Echo Summit will halt from July 1 ...
Nevada Assembly passes wedding, anti-graffiti bills
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 05/30/2011 - 10:53amCARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) - State lawmakers threw the book at taggers, defended puppies and kittens less than 8 weeks old, and approved more after-hours weddings during a rare Sunday session.Legislato...
Study: Nevada smoking laws haven't hurt restaurants, bars
Submitted by Anonymous on Mon, 05/30/2011 - 10:45amRENO, Nev. - Nevada's smoking laws have not hurt business at restaurants and bars, according to a study by an advocacy group that was released as lawmakers debate a bill that would water down the r...
Geotourists seek out unique experiences
Submitted by Anonymous on Sun, 05/29/2011 - 6:00pmSOUTH LAKE TAHOE - Tahoe Trail Bars line the racks at Grassroots Natural Foods store, South Lake Tahoe's only natural food store. Bulk bagged pine nuts chill in a refrigerator. Wafts of fresh gi...
Sex offender re-arrested
Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 05/28/2011 - 10:12amSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Police arrested a South Lake Tahoe man for the second time in two weeks Thursday for allegedly violating federal supervision requirements related to a 2007 child pornogra...
Sex offender re-arrested after alleged federal violation
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 05/27/2011 - 5:46pmSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Police arrested a South Lake Tahoe man for the second time in two weeks Thursday for allegedly violating federal supervision requirements related to a 2007 child porno...
BREAKING NEWS: Nevada Senate passes TRPA pull out bill
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 05/27/2011 - 1:58pmSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - The Nevada Senate passed a bill that allows the state to pull out of the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency if the organization does not meet certain benchmarks by October...
Basin should stay one district, supervisor says
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 05/26/2011 - 6:56pmSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Lake Tahoe doesn't need another political division, according to El Dorado County Supervisor Norma Santiago.On Thursday, the District 5 supervisor said she supports keepi...
LSD gummy bears part of drug bust
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 05/26/2011 - 6:54pmSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - LSD laden gummy bears were part of a South Lake El Dorado Narcotics Enforcement Team bust last week that included psilocybin mushrooms and more than 90 pounds of marijuan...
Tahoe City's famed Fanny Bridge due for a makeover
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 05/26/2011 - 5:43pmTAHOE CITY, Calif. - While Fanny Bridge abounds in historical value, its functionality is being called into question as transportation officials say it is rapidly deteriorating into a state of d...
Supreme Court knocks $62 million hole in budget
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 05/26/2011 - 11:29amIn a unanimous decision Thursday, the Nevada Supreme Court ruled the state can't take the $62 million in cash from the Southern Nevada Clean Water Coalition.That money was used to balance the curre...
Small county lobbyist warns of load state dumping on locals
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 05/26/2011 - 10:46amCARSON CITY, Nev. - Lobbyists representing Western Nevada's counties warned Wednesday the state is dumping so many responsibilities on the counties that the state can't expect them to absorb everyt...
Carson officials to take stand on bill to withdraw from TRPA
Submitted by Anonymous on Thu, 05/26/2011 - 10:35amCARSON CITY, Nev. - Carson City officials are meeting Friday - as are Douglas County leaders - to discuss a newly amended bill calling for the potential withdrawal of Nevada from the Tahoe Regional...
Solution set for high school graduation, construction overlap
Submitted by Anonymous on Wed, 05/25/2011 - 10:19amSOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Class of 2011 graduates and Vikings football have struck middle ground. The renovation of South Tahoe High School's stadium was expected to overlap with either graduation...
