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Toyota's perennial SUV, the 4Runner, in its maximum guise: the TRD Pro. TRD stands for Toyota Racing Development, their in-house 'cool' branding department, while the Pro moniker means this is the best of the best, with honors. Think of it as akin to Macbook computers, where the Pro naming scheme is reserved for the serious workhorse machines. But, the 4Runner TRD Pro is the antithesis of a high-tech computer, instead relying on rugged, passive construction to go about its business.

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Gym Love will be hosting its first Community Day on Wednesday, November 30 at South of North from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. They will be making tie blankets for the Tahoe Coalition for the Homeless (TCH) and hanging out together as a community.

Bring your family and friends and enjoy some music, desserts, and South of North’s delicious food and drinks. It will be $5 a person which will be going towards the TCH housing and homeless programs. This includes all the supplies and desserts!

South of North is located at 932 Stateline Avenue, South Lake Tahoe.

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Just as the original "Guilty Pleasures" did in 2002, "Guilty Christmas" is the ultimate parody of life at South Lake Tahoe.

A talented group of performers presents the play at the Valhalla Boathouse Theater, but you'll have to hurry if you want to catch it as the last performances are November 19 and November 20 (tickets can be purchased here).

EL DORADO COUNTY, Calif. - As promised, more results from the November 8 election were released today in El Dorado County, with 70 - 343 ballots with signature cured remaining. The next results will be released on Monday, November 21 at 5 p.m. Voter turnout in the county overall was 64.70 percent of the 138,537 registered voters.

Current results:

El Dorado County Supervisor District V - 14,317 votes, 53.75% of registered voters
BROOKE LAINE - 7,325 58.28%
KENNY CURTZWILER - 5,175 41.17%
WRITE IN - 69 0.55%
Vote for neither - 1,748

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - The community is invited to join the Boys and Girls Club of Lake Tahoe at the Angel of Tahoe building on Monday, December 5 from 5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m. at their inaugural Holiday Tree Lighting.

Celebrate the holidays with caroling, cookies, and a visit from Santa and Mrs. Claus. Starbucks will be on-site serving complimentary coffee and hot cocoa, and Sombrero's will be serving their delicious Mexican food.

All are welcome so bring your family and friends!!

The Boys and Girls Club is located at 1100 Lyons Ave, South Lake Tahoe.

November is National Diabetes Month, a great time to explore the role that nutrition and lifestyle choices play in our lives. Although eating habits can be difficult to change, simple adjustments can be beneficial to manage diabetes and promoting better health.

Following a healthy meal plan and being active can help keep your blood glucose level—also called blood sugar—in your target range, a key component to managing diabetes. To manage your blood glucose, you need to balance what you eat and drink with physical activity and diabetes medicine, if you take any.

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - The Gondola at Heavenly Mountain Resort will be back open for sightseeing only starting Friday, November 18. It will be operating from 9:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Guests can purchase their sightseeing tickets at ticket windows, and Epic Pass holders will also have access to scenic Gondola rides for free. Tamarack Lodge and Café Blue will also open for food and beverage as a result of operating the Gondola.

Skiing and riding will not be accessible from the Gondola at this time.

SPOONER LAKE, Nev. – Nevada State Parks and partners, including local officials, private donors, and stakeholders, gathered at Spooner Lake State park on Thursday for an official ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark the highly anticipated completion of the new Visitor Center and Amphitheater. These new facilities also include a gift shop, restrooms, a warming room, an interpretive atrium, group picnic pavilions, and a park office.

The Tahoe Coalition for the Homeless is requesting proposals for the Bear's Den rehabilitation, at 2250 Lake Tahoe Blvd, South Lake Tahoe. The Bear’s Den is in need of the installation of a new fire life safety alarm system at 2244/2250 Lake Tahoe, and repair and installation of framing, and installation of new drywall, texture, and paint at its 2250 Lake Tahoe Blvd.

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - A large fir tree made its way through South Lake Tahoe Wednesday morning, escorted by the California Highway Patrol and South Lake Tahoe Police Department from the airport to its destination at Heavenly Village.

For seven years, Kenny Curtzwiler of K & K Services has gone in search of the "perfect tree" for the community, normally scouting it out a year or two before it's needed. Many times the tree comes from a forest thinning project, and Kenny asks if it could remain until needed.

Lake Tahoe, Calif./Nev. — Entries for new Lake Tahoe moorings (buoys, boat lifts, etc.) can be submitted by lakefront owners to the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA) starting on December 1, 2022. Annually there is a mooring lottery and the Lake Tahoe Shoreline Plan. This annual lottery will continue until all allocations allowed under the plan are distributed.

The plan, approved in 2018, places a cap on the total number of moorings and piers allowed in the Tahoe Region and established this annual lottery system to allocate new moorings.

EL DORADO COUNTY, Calif. - Most ballots have been counted in South Lake Tahoe and El Dorado County, with 850 left to be tabulated for the whole county. With the trend of votes since the November 8 election, results should not change but the final count on Friday, November 18 will make everything clear.

Brooke Laine is the new supervisor for El Dorado County District V. Any new votes would not change the results as Laine is ahead of Kenny Curtzwiler by 2,111 votes.

Shop local this holiday season at South Lake Brewing Company's annual Holiday Market! The market will be held on four dates: Saturday, November 26th, December 3rd, 10th, and 17th from noon to 5 PM.

Different vendors will be present for each date. Visit southlakebeer.com for more information.

Markets will also be held on 11/27, 12/3, 12/10.

South Lake Brewing Company is located at 1920 Lake Tahoe Blvd, South Lake Tahoe.

Shop local this holiday season at South Lake Brewing Company's annual Holiday Market! The market will be held on four dates: Saturday, November 26th, December 3rd, 10th, and 17th from noon to 5 PM.

Different vendors will be present for each date. Visit southlakebeer.com for more information.

Markets will also be held on 11/27, 12/10, and 12/17.

South Lake Brewing Company is located at 1920 Lake Tahoe Blvd, South Lake Tahoe.

South Lake Brewing Company is hosting its annual Pray for Snow Party on Saturday, November 19 in support of SOS Outreach, a nonprofit that provides outdoor activities and mentorship programs to underserved youth.

The party starts at 7 p.m. and will feature ski and snowboard films, live music from CB Radio, and a raffle with awesome prizes including K2 skis, a Volcom bike, Oakley goggles, and much more!

The Wylder Resort Hope Valley continues its Eastern Sierra History series on Sunday, November 20 with a 50-minute slide show program, Tragedy at St. Francis Dam-The Worst Manmade Disaster in California History. Historian David Woodruff will tell the story as he does each week at Wylder during the history series.

Members of the Tahoe Fire & Fuels Team (TFFT) will continue conducting prescribed fire operations this week in the Lake Tahoe Basin. If conditions and weather remain favorable, California State Parks, Nevada Division of Forestry, North Lake Tahoe, and Tahoe Douglas fire protection districts will be burning piles in numerous locations. Smoke will be present.

UPDATE: USFS LTBMU has updated its figures from tree permits sold on Monday. They started the day with 1,360 permits to sell, and sold 560, leaving 800 permits still available.

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - It was cold and dark when the first person got in line at 5:30 a.m. for a tree permit at the USDA Forest Service-Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit (LTBMU) offices in South Lake Tahoe Monday.

One person died and two children were injured in an early morning traffic collision Monday morning at Picketts Junction.

At approximately 4:25 a.m. on November 14, the California Highway Patrol (CHP) was notified of the solo vehicle collision. CHP units arrived and found a white 2019 Hyundai sedan had collided with a small boulder. It was determined the driver of the sedan had been traveling southbound on SR-89, approaching SR-88 (Picketts Junction).

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - For the last three years the California Tahoe Conservancy (Conservancy) has been working on restoring the 1,600-acre Upper Truckee Marsh in South Lake Tahoe. After years of damage caused by development and moves made by ranchers, the river lost its natural meandering flow and has been just one straight channel of water. Now, the work of the Conservancy has completed the steps needed to re-create the wetland with new channels, the filling in of a sailing lagoon, and new willows and other vegetation planted.

EL DORADO COUNTY, Calif. - It has taken a large team of dedicated individuals with relentless dedication, working long hours over the last 441 days to bring Sierra-at-Tahoe back from the ruins created by the Caldor Fire to the anticipation of a new ski season.

The Sierra-at-Tahoe Ski Resort announced this weekend they will be ready for the 2022/23 season and reopening on December 3 (weather and Mother Nature permitting). The resort's 75th anniversary season was supposed to be last year, but with only being able to open for a day of celebration, the true party begins in just a few weeks.

South Tahoe High's 2022 boys' soccer program had an outstanding season. They had the best record since the team won the State title in 2010. This team had one of the league's best defenses which only allowed seven goals overall, eight goals counting conference games. Their offense scored 54 overall goals. In league play, they had five clean sheets, nine clean sheets counting conference games.

2022 VW Golf Mk8 R review with The Road Beat: A recipe for greatness that comes up short.

Dressing up for Halloween is always fun for both kids and adults alike. With Bread & Broth’s Monday Meal falling on Halloween this year, wearing costumes was a fun treat for the team members from Tahoe Regional Planning Agency (TRPA) who came to host and volunteer at the October 31 evening dinner. Dressed as a dinosaur, skeleton, cowgirl, and mouse respectively, Dan Segan, Bridget Cornell, Victoria Ortiz, and Rebecca Cremeen brought both a hot meal and a smile to the faces of the evening’s dinner guests.