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Here's the latest from the National Weather Service in Reno on the storms: This graph shows the change in snowpack percentage from the SNOTEL sites in the four main Sierra basins. Before the series of storms in the past week, all of the basins were below 10 percent of the season-to-date normals. As of early this morning, the snowpack has increased to around 25-30 percent of normal, which includes partial totals from the Sunday night-Monday storm.

A guided hike into the backcountry beyond the trails of Kirkwood to

The new film "Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close" by director Stephen Daldry ("The Hours") and playing at the Horizon Stadium Cinemas in Stateline is the story about a 9-year old boy Oskar Schell (Thomas Horn) who loses his father in the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center. He suffers perhaps from Asperger's and a clear case of overwhelming anxiety.

STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) - Anguished by an unthinkable scandal that shook a university and tarnished the proud football program, many in the Penn State community rallied around a common cause.The...

Most of their fans and more than a few guys on the Baltimore Ravens' side of the ball spent the past week arguing over the strength of Joe Flacco's arm. Turns out they should have paid more atte...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Kyle Williams fumbled the punt that ultimately ended the San Francisco 49ers' quest for a Super Bowl berth.Plenty of his teammates were ready to share the blame.Williams' se...

Well it looks like a decent, season starting storm cycle is on track for the western United States. What a fetch this one has, too, drawing moisture out of the tropics, plugging it into a consol...

This is the big weekend that we've all been waiting for. We've gotten down on our knees and prayed, did the most outrageous snow calls and of course have been doing the snow dances and finally we m...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California's unemployment rate dipped slightly in December to 11.1 percent, its lowest rate since 2009, the state reported Friday.The rate is two-tenths of a percentage po...

While it is cold and snowy outside now, swimming Lake Tahoe is the furthest from many minds. But not for a group of power swimmers who are preparing for water recreation after the snow melts.
Lake Tahoe swim enthusiasts Karen Rogers, adventure swimmer Jamie Patrick, local triathlete Rob Laurie, ski patroller Garrett Harley and photographer Brian Patterson and have announced the formation of the Lake Tahoe Swimming Society.

LAS VEGAS (AP) - Las Vegas casinos have made the New England Patriots favorites to win the Super Bowl thanks to their national following, a decade of winning and the playoff mystique of quarterback...

RENO, Nev. (AP) - Lawyers for Ben Roethlisberger and a woman who accused him of raping her at a Lake Tahoe hotel-casino in 2008 have reached a settlement that ends her civil lawsuit against the Ste...

MINDEN, Nev. - Douglas County's jobless numbers nudged back up in December.Total employment in Douglas held rock steady at 17,930 workers, but the number of jobless went up by 60 to 2,860, increasi...

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. - Among the files of South Lake Tahoe's cold cases lies the murder of 17-year-old Kathleen Keohane in 1976.Keohane's body was found beneath the Truckee River Bridge. Her...