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Here is this week's fishing report and a reminder that Saturday, April 28 is the Opening Day of California lake, river and stream fishing. This report covers water ways throughout Northern California, the Sierra, Nevada and Southern Oregon. To learn more about opening day or to get a California fishing license, go here.

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SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Both coaches chalked up their team's win - and loss - to its mentality. For Whittell, their attitude proved to be the difference in the first game, while in the second...

An Artist Shows “What Remains” at Bona Fide HQ May 5

On Sat. May 5, from 5:30 pm to 7:30 p.m. Bona Fide Books will host an art reception for local photographer and writer Stacy Hicks, featuring her collection “What Remains.” Free and open to the public, the exhibit will feature 16 black and white images. Refreshments will be served.

Hicks, who lives in Strawberry, CA with her son, says that her photographs reveal the things that people often don’t see, and this is what she finds most interesting in her subjects. She favors black and white film, because “It’s more honest.”

TRUCKEE, Calif. - In the first of two games, South Tahoe got all it could ask from senior pitcher Colton Marchesseault, but didn't have the same production at the plate against Truckee.The Wolve...

SANTA ROSA, Calif. (AP) - The mother of kidnap victim Jaycee Dugard says she bears an "overwhelming sadness and incredible anger" over "18 hellish years" of separation from her daughter.The Santa R...

Maybe it was the trips to Monterey Bay Aquarium in grade school at Meyers Elementary, or the enthusiastic biology lessons by South Tahoe High School's Roy Benavidez.Whatever sparked her love for...

Once again Michael Zucker, as Obama did, displays his ignorance of the founding principles of the United States. Co-equal branches of government monitor each other and have the power to stop abuses...

Terry Probyn, the mother of kidnap victim Jaycee Lee Dugard told a Sonoma County victims' rights audience Tuesday that she carries “overwhelming sadness and incredible anger” over “18 hellish years” of separation from her daughter.
The Santa Rosa Press Democrat reports how Probyn, 53, recounted her ordeal during the Sonoma County Crime Victim’s Rights Week event, telling of the separation from Dugard, who at age 11 was kidnapped by Phillip and Nancy Garrido from a South Lake Tahoe street on June 10, 1991.

While a meteor that streaked over California and Nevada this weekend may have sounded like it landed at the South Shore, the fireball likely broke up somewhere south of the Lake Tahoe Basin, acc...

You opt to pop echinacea pills when you have a cold, but will it really help? Many Americans think so. Surveys show that almost 40 percent of adults use some form of complementary and alternative m...

I would like to take a moment, on behalf of myself and a good number of locals and other pass holders, to thank Heavenly Mountain Resort and its management for three unbelievable days of skiing on ...

The deceased driver of the commercial truck that crashed through the runaway ramp at Mount Rose Highway near Incline Village on Monday has been identified as Eric S. Holton, 31 of Gardnerville.
Nevada Highway Patrol troopers were dispatched at 2:48 p.m. to the accident on State Route 431, approximately one-half mile east of State Route 28, near Incline Village. The vehicle involved was a 2006 gray Freightliner truck tractor pulling a 1989 flat bed trailer transporting composite decking materials traveling westbound on the two-lane highway.

A cutoff low will move into the Sierra and Western Nevada on Wednesday bringing increased chances for precipitation and gusty winds, according to the National Weather Service in Reno. Some showers and thunderstorms are expected in the Sierra today.

Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval announced Monday that the state has reached an agreement with online retailing giant Amazon to begin collecting Nevada sales tax on purchases.The agreement also calls for...